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“If you dare to drink, the king will let your whole family die with you.” As soon as
he finished, I took a sip of the poisoned wine.
“Do it, brother.”
「…… That’s not what the king meant.
I raised my middle finger and said, “Gosh.”
「……」
The next day I was driven out of the house by the angry King of Pingyang. “How dare one of my brothers beat six!”
“How dare one of my brothers kill eight!”
Crouching by the side of the road to hide in the shade, I came across two children competing with each other. I became interested
, and moved to their side and said faintly, “My brother dares to destroy his whole clan.”
「……」
「……」
My brother’s heroics helped me win two sugar men. It’s
more or less useful.
Poison wine is the real poison wine. Given by
the emperor, there is no cure.
So now I’m vomiting blood while eating sugar man, and the blood is black. The
sugar man cried and begged me not to eat it.
Speaking of it, I regret that if I hadn’t refused to marry on impulse, I might not
have had to drink that glass of wine. If I do it again, don’t let me marry the king of southern Xinjiang, marry the bastard of southern Xinjiang.
At least live to be eighteen years old. In fact,
I was already terminally ill, and my life was not long, and it was common for me to vomit blood.
I also spit with my mouth closed, I spit upside down, I spit while dancing, and I spit while flirting with others
.
“Hey, beautiful, you look like my future husband.” Before the
man on the other side could scold me, I spat out another mouthful of blood and fell down
in front of my eyes.
Hey, get down after flirting, and get the new strategy of flirting with beauties. When I woke up
again, I felt comfortable and refreshed, and I didn’t know when I changed
my clothes into a lilac light skirt. The
faint fragrance of medicine filled the empty room. I jumped out of bed and went outside. Outside the door was a
quiet bamboo forest. Through the bamboo forest, the mist was faintly visible. There was a man in the
hot spring with his back to me, and I couldn’t see it clearly.
No, no, no. Is this something I can watch without paying?! “Who?”
Without waiting for me to approach, the man gave a cold drink and shook off his hand to hit a water blade. I was so frightened that
I squatted down. The water blade hit the tree next to me. After the force was released, the hot water was poured on my head, and
I was thoroughly wet.
“Aren’t you out of line?!” I wiped my face and said angrily.
The man’s eyebrows grew into the temples, but they were thinner than those of the Central Plains people. The end of his eyebrows was slightly raised, which made him look sharp
, and his weakness was scattered a lot. His eye sockets are quite deep, his eyes are slightly lighter in color, and his
nose is high and straight. When he looks up at a person, his eyes look like the tip of a knife wrapped in honey, but they have
the sinister meaning of being quenched with poison. At this moment, his thin lips open lightly and he says sarcastically, “I don’t
like the coyness of you Central Plains people..”
“Why are you wearing clothes when you take a shower?!”
「……」
Beauty is not from the Central Plains.
Thinking about this, I was speechless for a moment.
An inexplicable but increasingly intense sense of fatalistic regret welled up in my heart.
With the idea that “it can’t be such a coincidence,” I tactfully asked,
“The beauty is so powerful, so did you get a throne in southern Xinjiang?” The beauty opened the corners of her mouth with a slightly cruel smile and said, “Who gave you the
courage to mock me?”
「……」 No, let me explain!
On the same day, I was deprived of the opportunity to beat the beauty on the back and went to the door to keep vigil.
If it’s not, it’s not. Why do you get angry so easily?
I took a look at my colleague, a wolf dog who only knows how to chew bones and bite people
.
The more beautiful a man is, the more cruel he is. The ancients did not deceive me.
Adhering to the idea that a beautiful person must have a good heart, coupled with his kindness to detoxify me, I moved into the house with a smile
. How could the
beauty have the heart to let such a delicate little girl as me freeze outside the door?
His face is cold, his heart is hot, his mouth is hard, his heart is soft, his mouth is soft, his mouth is tofu, his heart is cold, his face is cold, but
in his heart he is crying for my thin body and can’t sleep.
“Get out of here.”
“All right.”
I have changed from the golden branches and jade leaves of Pingyang Wangfu to the security guards at the gate of the vigil for the beauty of southern Xinjiang. The
drop is a little big.
But today I finally know the name of the beauty-Asoturo, he also has a Central Plains name, called Lou Yun. It was so nice that I held a big bowl and swallowed the last mouthful of bad vegetable soup mixed with rice.
Lou Yun is good-looking, but the cook’s taste is not very good. I’ve been eating for three days, and all the dishes taste the same.
Ah, my simple, ignorant, good-hearted, stupid, beautiful wife!
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“You are staying to pay the debt of human life. Why don’t you work hard and always stare at me?”
Lou Yun did not look up, his voice was gentle, like the wild mint by the mountain stream, still stained with a trace of cool mist, so cold that people suddenly felt empty in their hearts. But when you deliberately lower it, it’s like a lover’s chatter or a demon’s bewitching. After taking away your three souls and seven souls, you tilt your head and say with an innocent smile, “What does it have to do with me?”
“I want the Lord to see me again.” Sure enough,
he raised his eyes, thin lips slightly hooked, obviously the most calculating and exquisite mind, but when those eyes look at you, there is often a very contradictory, aggressive innocence.
“You’re so straightforward. You don’t look like a native of the Central Plains. On the contrary, you look like a girl from southern Xinjiang.” “Of course I’m not from the Central Plains!”
“Oh?”? And who are you?
“I am your man.”
Lou Yun was touched by me.
Yeah! On the
11th
floor, he did not hide his identity as a native of southern Xinjiang. He usually tied a pigtail
at the back of his head and tied it low with a silver crown. He was lazy and had a different style, which was different from most
people in the Central Plains. He has always been arrogant and wanton.
It happened that she had a really beautiful face, as delicate as the best brocade and the moon made of flying snow
.
I clung to the gate and looked at him from a distance. Since the last time I went to the building, he threw me
to the gate of the courtyard farther away.
Ziya rubbed my head and said, “It’s a bit promising!”! Don’t you want to do anything but
look at the Lord? Is it difficult for you to live for only one man
all your life?
「……」
“Mi Mi’er, you are a brave girl. You shouldn’t be trapped by men all
your life like an ordinary woman in the Central Plains. You should think about what you really want to do.” Ziya is obviously not a few years older than me, but she always persuades me not
to be confused by Lou Yun’s beauty. But she was really a good person. She treated me like a sister
, and even gave me a name in southern Xinjiang-Mi Mi Er.
It means a lovely and auspicious youngest daughter.
“There are other things, too.” I made a muffled sound and stared at Lou Yun for dinner
without blinking.
Hmm? What is it? Ziya looked at
me approvingly in a voice soft enough to drip water. “You know, Mir, whatever it is, I will help you.”
“I want to wear pigtails for the Lord.”
「……」
“Sister Zizi, you just said you would help..”
「……」 Ziya drew out the machete with an expressionless face.
Help.. I abstain from sex, don’t I?
The scimitar is sheathed.
I couldn’t stand the cook who couldn’t tell the difference between sugar and salt, so I began to teach myself how to cook with a
book. Ziya, who learned about it, brought me sixteen recipes
the next day. Shiwuben is a southern Xinjiang dish.
I opened the first page, and the snake soup was stuffed with flowers.
I put it down gently with a serene face and did not turn to the second page again. The
rest of the book was ragged, and I didn’t know where Ziya got the Sichuan
dish, and I had to put hot pepper in every dish.
Fortunately, Lou Yun loves spicy food, and there are a lot of spicy food in the kitchen.
I think of beauty again, alas, this may be the sweet trouble of love. Thinking
so, I sprinkled a handful of dried pepper into the pot.
Ziya didn’t have the heart to refuse my coquetry this time, and successfully sent the dish to Lou Yun’s table.
So that night, the house was brightly lit, and everyone was ready, because Lou Yun, who was suffering from abdominal pain
, said he wanted to find out the cook who had assassinated him.
Live to see people, die to see corpses. I was shivering as I wiped my hands
on the back of my clothes, where I could smell the spicy smell one meter away.
“Why are you so hot?” Lou Yunpi does not smile, his eyebrows are gloomy, and he uses
affirmative sentences.
I smiled awkwardly and said, “Maybe it’s because I’m a hot girl
.” Once again, Lou Yun, who was caught by me, stretched his hand to his waist with an expressionless face.
I quickly covered my eyes, “Ah, this, this, this.” Isn’t that a little too fast?!
「……」
“Why are you crying when my sword is not unsheathed?”
「…… I’m sorry, beauty. “I took my hand away. My eyes were red and tears
were streaming down my face.” Really, it’s too spicy. ”
「……」
Ziya dipped the veil in cold water, gently wiped my face, and applied it to my eyes
. When I opened my eyes
again, I relieved a lot, at least I didn’t shed tears anymore. Everyone in the
room quickly retreated, including Ziya.
Beauty’s lips are so red that she wants to kiss.
“If you dare to lean over again,” Lou Yun said with his index finger pressed against my forehead. His voice was soft, slow, and
cool, and threatening. “I’ll cut off your head. It’s no
use keeping it anyway.”
「……」 I nodded and clung to the table while he was relaxed and bold. His lips were pressed against a cold object, a thin leaf silver dart, the tip of which was sharp and murderous
.
“Wrong, wrong, brother.”
I froze and just wanted to step back, but I was hooped into my arms by Lou Yun and used the knife to trace
my eyebrow shape carefully.
Seeing that I was afraid, Lou Yun actually laughed out loud and looked particularly happy. “Are you afraid?” The tip of
the dart was against the end of the eyebrow. I didn’t dare to move. I only dared to make a low sound.
“That’s still..” The tip of the dart was no more than inch away from my face, and it slowly moved to the front of my lips. Lou Yun
‘s eyes were heavy, and when he looked at people at such a close distance, he became more and more demagogic.
“Do you want to kiss?”
“Think.” To die under the peony, to be a ghost is also romantic. As soon as
the voice fell, the handle of the dart touched my lips, scaring me to shrink.
Lou Yun, holding the silver dart between his fingers, was stunned for a moment, and the next second he smiled, revealing the small
tiger tooth and a slight shock in his chest.
He has always acted recklessly, and even his smile is different from that of the Central Plains people.
“Good girl,” Lou Yun threw away the silver dart. “Don’t call me brother from now on. Call my brother.
Ziya recently went out to work with Lou Yun and told another sister named Nizhen to take care of me. When Nizhen asked me what to eat at night for the eighth time today, I smiled and gave a
middle finger, then closed the door.
“Mi Mi Er!”! When on earth can I eat spicy chicken?
“In the first seven days of my life.”
「……」
Ni is really not elegant and careful, but she is very lively. She always tells me about the local conditions and customs
of southern Xinjiang. She is very lovely.
When she left the door, I covered my mouth tightly with my handkerchief and vomited a mouthful of blood.
This is a poison brought from the womb. I was born weak, so I have to take a prescription left by a traveling doctor ten years ago
every month, so that I can be like an ordinary person on weekdays.
But Pingyang Wangfu, I can’t go back. Wearing a curtain hat,
I went out for a walk with Nizhen. There were too many people. Nizhen was lively. I also felt
strange. I looked around and got separated.
Nizhen! Nizhen! I walked all the way, looking for her all the way.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up all over the sky, pieces of paper flew down and circled. The cap yarn was lifted lightly. I reached out and caught
one. It was paper money. “It’s a pity that Princess Shouguang is only fifteen years old.” An old
man sighed as he tidied up his stall.
Obviously I didn’t know each other, but the melancholy in the words seemed to congeal into substance, bumping into my heart
and bumping into my chest.
The short-lived princess of Shouguang died on the second day of her marriage, which was really pitiful.
I spread out my hand, and the paper money flew back between heaven and earth.
This is for the dead princess of Shouguang, and I am no longer the princess of Shouguang.
The sky was overcast quickly, the dark clouds were rolling, and the old man who had just been melancholy had already packed up his stall
and disappeared. The raindrops as big as
beans hit the curtain hat. For a moment, I really didn’t know where to shelter from the rain. I could only
blindly follow the crowd who was also patted by the rain in the street.
Chang’an every time at this time, the rain is urgent and fierce, in a short while, has been crackling
down like pouring beans.
The wind rolled the raindrops into the crowd, blurring people’s vision. In a panic, my hat
was lifted under the action of the scattered crowd and the wind, and the hair that Nizhen tied
for me was loosened. Drenched to the skin,
I tried in vain to raise my arm to my forehead, but suddenly I heard a cry: “Mimi
!”
It’s sister Zizi’s voice!
Before I could turn around, my body suddenly lightened, and I exclaimed. After a moment of weightlessness, I was tied around my waist on horseback. Under the thick cloak hood, I was cut off from the wind and rain. In the darkness, I could only hear the strong heartbeat in my ears and chest.
“Lou..” I just wanted to ask if it was Lou Yun, but I couldn’t hold back. I vomited a mouthful of blood and soaked it into his skirt.
All my strength seemed to be drained, a burst of heat and cold, the last moment of consciousness disappeared, I finally heard the familiar and reassuring laugh.
“Don’t be afraid, your brother is coming.”
I woke up with a headache, and all my bones were crying with pain, which made me shed a string of tears.
“Does it hurt?” Lou Yun touched my forehead and, like her mother when she was a child, pulled the broken hair stuck to my forehead to the top of my head.
I took a deep breath to relieve the pain, struggled to stretch out my hand and asked him to hold me, but he didn’t move, and I couldn’t help crying. As soon as
Lou Yun finally pulled out his long arm, I fell into his arms as I wished. After a while, I managed to speak in a hoarse voice: “I’m much better now.”
“You can’t touch cold water with this disease. Today the cold is shallow to the bone. You can still lie here and hold me in your arms and act like a spoiled child. If the cold water invades deeper, you can only go to Ziya to hold the tombstone and cry.” I was so weak from the pain that I shrank into his arms again and nodded perfunctorily.
“Ziya,” he said, wrapping me with a quilt, leaving only part of her arm exposed. “Apply
the medicine to her.”
“Yes.” The
cold ointment was applied to my skin, and in a twinkling of an eye, my pain had dissipated eight minutes.
“You have medicine. Why didn’t you put it on me?”
Lou Yun chuckled and said carelessly, “You have to have a long memory.”
That’s cruel.
I buried my head in his neck and sucked in the pleasant aroma from his body. “Beautiful women are always
cruel, and actors don’t want to be lovers.”
Then he chuckled. “Then I’m so cruel. Why are you still holding me
back?”? Uh
My pain had been relieved for the most part, so I put my hands around his neck to untie his braid and said perfunctorily
, “Because the Lord is just as cruel as I like.”
The third time I went to Louyun, he laughed and covered my mouth. “You’re the most interesting girl I
‘ve ever seen from the Central Plains.”
I don’t know if I should remind him that he hasn’t seen ten women
in the Central Plains, including the kitchen aunt, the mother-in-law who delivers vegetables, and the granddaughter
who can just walk.
I chewed a mouthful of sweet osmanthus cake and crouched behind the screen in fear to listen to the foot of the wall. Outside was Lou Yun and the nine princes.
Fortunately, they couldn’t see me through the screen. I
had heard my brother mention that the body of the emperor was getting worse and worse in the past few years, but the prince made mistakes again and again, and the position was in danger.
Several princes are playing a small abacus to seize the throne, and if the most likely, is the nine princes.
The nine princes were born to the emperor’s favorite imperial concubine Chen, who was far more resourceful and broad-minded than crown prince. However, the mother, imperial concubine Chen, was born as a maidservant and had a low status. Naturally, she was not as good as the legitimate son born to the empress.
Now. Has it already begun to seize the throne?
“Who’s there?!”
I was startled, and before I could react, the black corner of my clothes had already floated into my line of sight.
Lou Yun raised his lips and narrowed his eyes, revealing a signal of danger. Between his eyebrows was a gloom that had not yet dissipated. It was the same as the terrible appearance I had seen him for the first time. He was still playing with the thin leaf silver dart that I was familiar with.
My whole person froze in place, such as falling into the ice cellar, unlike the usual small fight, this time I broke their plan to force the palace to seize the throne. My life is over.
“Brother Lou?”
The floor allowed not to make a sound for a long time, nine princes seem to get up to find out, he knows my
face, if he sees the sister of Pingyang Wang is still alive and well, then my brother. At a loss,
I looked at the other side of the screen, only to see the faint figure
of the nine princes, and looked at the unfathomable Lou Yun, it doesn’t matter if I die, but I can’t drag my
brother down.
My heart beat so hard that I felt my throat begin to smell fishy again, and I couldn’t hold back a tear
.
Lou Yun seemed to sigh, bent over and took away the half of the osmanthus cake that I was pinching between my fingers.
My thin lips seemed to rub against it, and my fingertips trembled and shrank like an electric shock.
“It’s all right,” he said, swallowing the cake, his most beautiful face in front of me, his eyes
staring straight at me. “It’s mine.”
“Good.” The nine princes did not doubt him, and as expected, they sat back again.
Lou Yun stood up straight and wiped the tears from my eyes with his fingers. “What
are you afraid of?” He said with a low smile. “How can you let someone bully you?”
The so-called palpitations, probably, refers to this feeling.
Asoturo was the only disciple of the Great Witch Doctor of Southern Xinjiang. He is talented and proficient in medicine, but because he has personally tested poison since childhood, his taste is very
dull now, so he especially favors spicy food with irritation.
He has a weak stomach.
I always wait at the gate for him to come back, and then bring him a bowl of porridge that doesn’t look good.
But tonight, he didn’t come back.
Wrapped in my cloak, I began to sing, “For all the pain of love..”
Nizhen: “… …”
“For all the hurt of hate and attachment..”
“Mi Mi Er,” Nizhen finally said thoughtfully, “can you not sing this
song in the first seven days?”
You don’t have to?
You don’t have to kill me, right?
「…… Why the first seven days?
“Because every time I ask you this, you always tell me to wait until the first seven days. The spicy chicken is, and so is the hibiscus
cake.” Nizhen’s big eyes are sincere and clear. The first seven are the sayings of the Central Plains.
The aborigines of southern Xinjiang, Nizhen, do not know the meaning.
「……」 “I wish I could have gotten to you sooner..”
“No, Nizhen. I can shut up right now.” At
three o’clock, Lou Yun still did not come back.
“Those fireworks look like those from southern Xinjiang.” Nizhen scratched her head and looked at the southwest
sky.
“Huh?”? Is it your New Year’s Day today? I was puzzled and dared to ask questions.
“No,” Connie tried to remember. “The Lord said to use this
connection if you were in danger.”
“Oh, oh.”
「……」
「……」
「？？」
「！！」
“Now take everyone to find him at once.” The vague worry finally turned into a strong
panic, which swept through my body like a tide. I quickly stood up and stressed, “Everyone
.” As soon as Nizhen nodded and ran a few steps, she stopped and looked back at me. But the Lord
has asked me to protect you..
“Go!” I was so angry that I rubbed my brows. “Can I live
alone if he dies?!”
Nizhen rushed in and soon gathered all the people to the door.
“Mi-mi, don’t go out. Just wait at home, okay?” Connie
is really worried about me.
I nodded, pushed her out of the door, and motioned her to go.
When they disappeared into the night, I clenched my hands, and my nails hurt my palms.
How can you do nothing? After
half a stick of incense, I climbed up the last horse in the stable and staggered towards the Nine Wangfu
Palace.
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“Don’t touch him!”
I jumped off my horse and stumbled to pick up a knife that was still stained with blood. It was so heavy that I couldn
‘t help shaking.
I know him, the prince’s loyal general Wang, at the moment is the sword Lou Yun, Lou Yun
is obviously badly hurt, half kneeling on the ground, chest ups and downs, see me a burst of
consternation. “Who are you?”
I slowly approached them, and when I got close, I realized that behind Lou Yun was a cliff, and the waves under
the cliff were turbulent, which made people afraid.
“Who sent you?!” Lou Yun’s voice was hoarse and urgent, and it was the first time I had heard him
speak like this.
I had moved carefully in front of them, and I answered him confidently, “I will
protect you!”
Lou Yun laughed and scolded something in a low voice. It should be the southern Xinjiang dialect. I didn’t hear it clearly.
“You don’t look like people from southern Xinjiang.” Surname Wang’s eyes explore.
“I’m like your mother.”
The veil was lost on the way here, but fortunately it was dark at the moment, and Wang
was not familiar with me, so he did not find my identity.
“What a pair of tough bitches!” He was enraged, and his face was full of evil. “This general
will send you on your way together!”
He raised his sword to stab, but Lou Yun cut it off directly with a knife. Three silver darts plunged into
his flesh unexpectedly. He spat out a mouthful of blood, threw out the broken sword, and hit Lou Yun back a few steps. In a
flash of lightning, I rushed to pull him, but only pulled off a piece of clothes.
“Lou..” My throat was stuffed with cotton, and I was at a loss for a moment.
No, no, no, no. He’s so good. “Lou Yun!”! Lou Yun! Asoturo-There
was no response.
Wang fell to the ground and laughed, and I lay on the edge of the cliff, angry and indignant,
spitting out a mouthful of blood.
He’s dead! Hahahahahaha-
I began to tremble all over. I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t. I grabbed a long knife and stabbed him in the chest
. The disgusting laughter stopped abruptly. After
killing him, I picked up my skirt without a moment’s hesitation and jumped
down the cliff.
I want to protect you. Wherever you
are, whether you live or die. When I woke up
again, I was lying on Lou Yun’s back. His clothes were ragged, and countless wounds, big
and small, made me jumpy. My eyes were hot, and he pushed me up
, and I just reacted. To really feel like we’re alive.
“What are you touching?” Lou Yun put his head sideways on my face. I knew he was looking at me to see if I was hot
, but he felt like some kind of little beast who finally trusted people from the bottom of his heart.
I said, “I’m looking to see if you’re hurt.” “Have you finished?”
“Not yet.” I moved up again. “My hands are too short to reach my abdominal muscles.”
「……」 For the first time,
Lou Yun didn’t frighten me with a dart. Instead, he changed the subject and said, “What
‘s the matter with you?” Aren’t you afraid of death?
“Afraid? Who’s not afraid? Who’s a fool?”
「…… Then why did you jump?
“Then I’m even more afraid of the death of my good brother. If you die, I won’t live.” I
stroked his messy pigtails, and I didn’t know where his hair crown had gone. At this time, his hair
was loose, which was more different from the Central Plains people. It was a kind of indulgent and wanton beauty.
「……」
“I’m just a simple and lovely little fool who is blinded by love
.”
「……」
I wipe away the tears that don’t exist, and continue to set off my feelings and sublimate the theme. “As long as I can be
with my brother, I will be willing to give in silence without fame. If I can’t get my
brother’s heart, I will get my brother’s people.”
「……」 For a long time, just when I thought that Lou Yun had been hit by the earth again and would not reply as usual
, he suddenly chuckled, and the ending sound was sexy, which made people itch in their hearts and wanted to
kiss him. Then Lou Yun lowered his voice to a tone of blushing tenderness and indulgence
. “Your brother’s people are yours, and so is your heart.”
「……」 My speech was sluggish and my heart was beating fast.
“If you kiss your brother, his life will be yours.”
「……」
Shit, the deer is going to be killed. When I
got back, as expected, I had a high fever and was in a daze. I didn’t know who had come to see
me and who had gently tucked in the quilt beside my bed. When I was in
a daze, I always dreamed about the past.
Speaking of which, I used to be a princess.
Very noble kind, plus weak and sickly, simply clothes to stretch out their hands, food to open their mouths.
My brother also loved me, the only sister left, and raised me to be delicate, even out of tune with
the family that came out of the battlefield.
But orders are hard to disobey, and he has a whole family behind him.
I don’t want to marry Laoshizi King of Southern Xinjiang, but I can’t be so selfish and implicate my family.
So I took poison, so I was willing to leave the palace, so I didn’t dare to tell my brother I was still alive, so. I’m coming to terms with the rest of my lonely life.
I used to think it didn’t matter if I died, because when I was ten years old, the herbalist said that my destiny was eighteen. Others were afraid of death, but I knew my destiny long ago.
Later, after knowing Lou Yun, I still feel that it doesn’t matter to die. At least I have known him. I have no regrets in this life. If I can do something for him, I will accept it with pleasure.
But after that, when I ate with him, when he called me softly, when he smiled at me. Suddenly I felt that it would be better if I could stay with him for a while.
Just comb his hair for another day. I’ve just learned the new way of braiding. Just
look at him a few more times.
People always want more and more, without exception.
Since Lou Yun’s last counterattack, my earthy love words have gradually lost their space for development.
I drank my last mouthful. “Where are you from, brother?” “I am your sweetheart.” Lou Yun put a candied fruit in my mouth and took it skillfully.
No, you are me.. Ah? Aren’t you from southern Xinjiang?
“Do you still ask?”
「……」
I was speechless for a moment, laughing to death, but now it’s earthy.
“You’re so rustic now. You’re not at all like that cool beauty you used to be.”
Lou Yun glanced at me with a half-smile and rubbed his thumb lightly against the medicine stain on my lips.
“If you make my brother unhappy, he’ll have his head cut off,” he said in a slow voice.
I immediately covered my mouth with the quilt and winked cleverly to show that I had received it.
“Where are you going?”
“The nine princes are waiting for me in the study.”
Nine princes?
“Lou Yun, aren’t you really the king of southern Xinjiang?”
Hearing these words, Lou Yun’s eyes suddenly sank and cooled, his eyelashes like crow feathers drooped slightly, and now there
was a small dark color, like a poisonous snake winding out of the dense forest, spitting bright red cores.
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, clenched the brocade quilt, and had a slight regret. For a long time, he broke the silence with a light laugh, slowly bent over and looked directly at me, stroked the back of my
neck with one hand, and the cold palm made me shrink.
“Now,” he said softly, pinching the soft flesh of my neck and speaking harshly but without concealing it
, “not yet.”
I wasn’t afraid of him, but the anger between his eyebrows made me jumpy. What do you mean
, “Not yet?”? In the future. Could it be?
“Let that old man live a few more days.” Lou Yun tucked me into the corner of the quilt and stood up straight
. As if I had been wrong, he hid all his evil breath. “In
a few days, I’ll take you to southern Xinjiang to have a look.”
「…… OK I
never thought I could see my brother, King of Pingyang, Gu Zhe.
I used to think that I would never see my family again in my life.
It’s like a lifetime ago.
“Ah Jing,” he called me as before, “do you know who you are with?”
I nodded. “Lou Yun, Asoturo.”
“He was the 14th son of the king of southern Xinjiang, and this time he came to Chang’an to join hands
with the nine princes to change the sky of southern Xinjiang and even Chang’an.” After a silence, I nodded again.
“You know, your brother,” Gu said after a pause. “Prince Pingyang has
always befriended the prince.”
“The king of Pingyang is a minister, and a minister who serves the king is loyal. What is serving the crown prince?”
“Gu Jing!” Gu Zhe was so angry that he pounded the table. I stuck my neck and refused to bow my head.
After all, he was defeated and softened his tone. “Don’t I hate your majesty for giving me wine?”? No
complaints? The day you drank the poisoned wine, I wished I had a sword. Jing, I just don’t want you to get involved
in these things. It’s not easy for you to survive. I..
“Brother,” I grabbed his hand. “Princess Shouguang died without regret or complaint, but Gu Jing is still
alive. Now I’m lucky to have these extra days, and even have someone I like. Even if
I die with him again, it’s worth it.”
Gu Zhe clenched my hand, like every time from small to large, dry and warm, can
always give me strength.
「…… Have you decided?
“Mmm.”
“Ah Jing has grown up.” With a sigh, Gu Zhe finally relieved himself and handed a
token to my hand.
“Brother, you don’t have to..”
“No, Ah Jing, this time I made my own choice for the Pingyang Mansion.” “You..” I rubbed the tiny jade ring and said uncertainly, “Did you choose the nine
princes?”
“Yes, as a general, who wouldn’t want to follow a wise king?” Gu Zhe sneered, as if he had returned
to his bright appearance when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. “What’s more, I have to take sides anyway. Why
don’t I take my sister’s side?”
My nose was sour. “Brother..” Only
a fool chooses the prince, that fool. He even referred to one of my books before, saying that I was greedy
for fun. Fart! Is it fun for me to spend money on Miss Peony?! That’s
***ing love!
「……」
25 It rained heavily on
Lou Yun’s birthday. I pulled Ziya to work in the kitchen. I
looked left and right, with a sad face.
Ben.. King Ben, I’m the king of Pingyang, and my sister is making
a fire here?!
“It’s getting cold..”
Ziya: “… …”
I rolled my eyes and whispered, “Don’t talk to him. He’s sick.”
「……」 Lou Yun doesn’t like rice, but prefers pasta. I finally cooked a pot of dumplings with chili
stuffing.
“Oh, I raised you so much, and I haven’t eaten your cooking yet.” Gu Zhe is sour in the sour airway
.
“The day before yesterday, didn’t you eat fillet of fish with chili sauce, boiled elbow meat in soy sauce, and milk cake with jade clay?” “
I don’t know when Nie really came in, but she blinked her big eyes and added,” I even had two more bowls
of rice. ”
「……」
“Sister Ziya says you haven’t paid yet.”
「……」
“People in the Central Plains call this” freeloading, “shameless!”
“How can matter of the elder brother-in-law be called a free meal?!”
Nizhen took advantage of his inattention to pull away his money bag, turned over and jumped out of the window to make a
face. She was so angry that she jumped out of the windowsill, but because she was not as dexterous
as Nizhen, she hit the window frame and tottered.
“The kitchen has a door!” Ziya roared heartily. The
two culprits pretended not to hear.
Ziya turned to stare at me, and I comforted her by saying, “The windows of the Pingyang Mansion are broken
like that.”
「……」
The sky darkened quickly, but the rain did not stop, falling on the ground and on the leaves, which made the night very quiet.
This birthday banquet is not many people, but also lively enough, Ni is really quaint, ghost ideas and many, the atmosphere is lively a lot. After three rounds of
drinking, I gave the bowl of chili-stuffed dumplings to Lou Yun. Nizhen and the others were already holding the wine bottle and pouring it down, leaving Gu Zhe lying on the table with his eyes covered with drunkenness. With a sneer, he whispered in a childish voice, “You’re so hot.”
「……」 I pinched his arm. “Today is a good day. Don’t make me slap you.”
Lou Yun picked up a dumpling and bit it down, but his face suddenly became complicated. I was a little worried, so I quickly let go and poured tea. Isn’t this fellow very good at spicy food on weekdays?!
Gu Zhe rubbed his arm and laughed out loud with schadenfreude, but soon his smile froze on his face, the thing in the smelly boy’s mouth. Why does it look familiar?
The more I wanted to hold up my eyelids to see, the more I couldn’t see it clearly, until finally I fell down on the table unwillingly.
Lou Yun spat out the little toothless thing. Seeing that it was a jade ring, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, “This is..” A token of love?
Relieved, I bent my eyes with a smile and said heroically, “It’s my betrothal gift.”. With the Pingyang Mansion and the Ku Chia-chien Army as my betrothed, will my elder brother marry me? Lou Yun seemed to be a little drunk. He looked at me steadily for a long time and did not speak. After
a long time, he gently took my hand, like a treasure, gently pressed it to his forehead
, and said in a dumb voice, “Good.”. My brother will marry you. On a sunny afternoon,
I watched Lou Yun ride away in the direction of
southern Xinjiang.
He said he would go back to get his dowry and let me wait for him.
My brother asked me if I wanted to go back to Pingyang Wangfu. I shook my head. I had been detained in that mansion for too
long. I wanted to go out more while I was in good health. It happened that he had made the traveling doctor’s prescription
into a portable pill, and I had no worries.
After that, Lou Yun and I sent my pony to depend on each other, a braid skill nowhere to
display, and finally hit the idea on it.
My pony is the most beautiful pony in Chang’an, with different pigtails every day!
We get up early to exercise together every morning and walk by the river together in the evening. The pony doesn’t like to eat grass very much
recently, always. I guess he, like me, is also thinking about the most beautiful person in the world
.
But he told me to wait, so I waited.
Until one day.. “Gu Jing, what crime should you commit in the Pingyang Mansion for deceiving the emperor?!”
「……」
And what exactly is your relationship with that Asoturo? Tell me honestly, is it a
secret communication between Ku Tsu and southern Xinjiang that you are going to pass on?
“No,” I decided to look at the well-dressed man opposite. “It’s
not my brother. I’m going to follow Asoturo myself.”
“Do you want to help him rebel?!”
「……」
My brother’s right. This idiot doesn’t know anything about love. If
the throne is passed to him, then the ancestors are really out of luck, stand on such a prodigal
thing.
Without saying more, I bent my fingers and whistled. More than a dozen dead men in black fell from the sky.
I rode on a pony and successfully escaped from the control of the prince under the protection of the dead men.
I looked back and saw that the dead soldier and the prince’s men were fighting together. He seemed to want to send someone to
catch me, but it was obvious that he had no skills. Although
the prince was stupid, he was the crown prince after all. I clenched the reins, kicked the horse
in the stomach, and ran to the palace of Prince Pingyang.
This Changan, is estimated to stay.
Not long ago, I was the younger sister of the King of Pingyang, who had great military exploits, and now I am the princess of Shouguang
.
Now sitting in a small noodle shop, I am an incognito fugitive, Gu Jing. In the
noise of people, the lid of the cauldron was lifted by the simple and honest aunt, a burst of noodle aroma
accompanied by hot air, I sucked a mouthful of clear soup noodles, a large area of sunlight sprinkled on my
body, hot soup, the whole person was warm, the breeze swept. I actually feel
that this life has never been better.
With the help of His Royal Highness, I, who was “weak in strength,” escaped very smoothly.
Gu Zhe said the rest to him to deal with, I dragged the pony ran out of the city of Changan that day.
I have always been assured that the youngest general of the God of war in the history of the Sheng Dynasty, his strategy and skill
are far above those ministers in the court.
“Did you hear that Asoturo offended the Great Elder..”
I moved my ears, threw a few pennies on the table, squeezed into the crowd across the street, and heard
a few words clearly: “The elder has long said that Asoturo was born ominous, and that it is the blood that is not blessed
by the God of Prajna.”
“Traitors of Southern Xinjiang!”
…… The southern Xinjiang language is mixed with Chinese, and it is barely possible to hear that they are talking about Lou Yun’s “defection” to southern Xinjiang after he was wronged by that
great elder.
It is estimated that someone knew about his alliance with the nine princes and could not sit still.
I pushed my way through the crowd and finally saw the dirt-stained portrait.
Is my beauty, even if the drawing paper has been dirty, but still can not cover up his beauty that can always
make people crazy.
I raised my hand to tear off the portrait and pat the dust. Tut, I have a good eye.
“I didn’t know you hated him so much.” Someone patted me on the shoulder, and I looked up. It was
a middle-aged man with dark skin. He motioned me not to be polite. “Just tear it up.
No one will scold you. They will only cheer for you!”.
“Oh?” I smiled gently. “Did you tear it up?”
“Of course!” The man exulted, “This picture of an ominous monster is only fit to be
trampled on!”
I smiled calmly, then grabbed a handful of earth and pasted it on his face, just as he had just done to the portrait of the beauty
, just to cover his leering expression.
Blankau! Maruji! He was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed, and everyone was in an uproar.
I don’t understand.
But it doesn’t matter. I unfolded the portrait of Lou Yun with a haughty sneer. “This, my wife
,” I said word for word.
「……」 On the first day of
getting rid of the pursuers in the Central Plains, they were enthusiastically pursued and killed by the people of southern Xinjiang.
I am the wife of Asoturo.
Yeah!
Changming is a dark guard who has been protecting me since a long time ago. This time when he came to southern Xinjiang, Gu Zhe arranged
him beside me again, and he sent a message saying that he would meet us here tonight.
And everyone who knows me knows that I have always been a beautiful woman who dares to fight against fate!
…… But I didn’t expect that the enthusiasm of the people in southern Xinjiang really made me, a weak woman, unable to stand it
.
So, on a sunny afternoon, I used all my strength to tie the blue
belt around Changming’s waist.
At that time, Changming’s handsome face was so angry or strangled that he could not breathe. It was so red
that he hesitated to speak.
I turned pale with fright. “You don’t want me to curl your hair, do you?”! I can only wear my hair in pigtails
! 「……」
“Actually, it’s all right, but you might get your head cut off by my brother.”
“Not..” Chang Ming’s face was complicated. “Miss, I’m too tall. Even if I wear a curtain
hat, they can see that it’s not yours.”
“Don’t worry,” I said confidently. “People in southern Xinjiang don’t have good eyes.”
“Huh?”
“Think about it, Asoturo is such a big beauty. If I were the king of southern Xinjiang, I would definitely abdicate on the day Aso
was born, and then pass the throne to him. If anyone objected, I would directly
cut off his head with a knife and kick him as a ball.”
「……」
“This group of people in southern Xinjiang are also traitors. My wife is too kind to haggle
with them.”
「…… But Asoturo is also from southern Xinjiang.
You mean.. Does he have a bad eye?
「……」
“Chang Ming!” I said with a smile. “Although there aren’t many cemeteries in southern Xinjiang, there can be a place for you
to lie down.”
“I was wrong, miss!”
I have to say that the guards of this House of Elders are indeed a bit difficult.
“What for?!” As soon as
I climbed up the wall, I was caught red-handed, and the guard pointed a knife at
me with a ferocious look.
“Would you believe me if I said that I was actually a fan of the Great Elder?”
「……」 They
must not have believed me, because I was soon thrown into a small dark room.
I struggled, “How on earth did you find out?”? Could it be that I didn’t hide it?
My clothes don’t fit? It’s southern Xinjiang’s clothes!
The guard smiled inscrutably. “No.”
Why is that? Your keen intuition? Excellent eyesight? Do you have a polygraph
on your wall?
“No, it’s simply because it’s impossible for anyone to like an old man who makes people look ugly and then gets up
to guard the house.”
「……」
“You might as well say that gold is falling from the sky, and that it might be the manifestation of the spirit of Prajna.” 「……」
Wow-
a good iron beater. A model for our
generation. I was cutting the rope when the sound of someone falling to the ground sounded at the
door.
Counting the time, Gu Zhe should also go to southern Xinjiang to meet Changming.
“Brother?” I asked tentatively. The man
outside sneered in a cold voice, “I’m not your brother.”
The sound.. My breath choked.
Then, the door was kicked open, Lou Yun a neat dress of southern Xinjiang, against the moonlight,
smiling to stand at the door to see me.
His face was still stained with a few drops of blood, and the moonlight shrouded it, contributing to a hazy sense of danger
, like a Shura crawling out of nowhere, but his eyes were tender, and when
they fell on me, it was a kind of alarming tenderness.
He broke the rope, and I immediately threw myself into his arms and started crying. “Well, my brother will avenge you.” Lou Yun gently wiped my tears with his finger pulp and said slowly
.
All right! We’ll make a plan when we go back this time.
“No!” Lou Yun’s eyelashes drooped slightly, and his face was indifferent but vaguely cruel. “Just today,” he said word
by word.
「？」 The mansion of the
elders was in flames, and all the people in the mansion fled from the doors. Ziya stood in the distance protecting me
, and Nizhen stood outside the study door with a machete.
“Sister Tzu Tzu, I thought you’d all been arrested by the Great Elder, so I came here to find out
what’s going on.”
“Of course not, Mir.”
“How did Lou Yun offend the Great Elder?”
“Like now.”
「……」
It was so offensive that I took a look at the burning house of the elders.
“Mir, you shouldn’t have come alone. It’s too dangerous.”
But I can’t take a team of dark guards to the top of the wall, can I? The sudden appearance of ten heads
on the wall is too abrupt! 「…… Mir, there is only one that is also very abrupt.
「……」
The flames quickly rolled up the beams, and Lou Yun finally came out of the study, expressionless and
gloomy, dragging a man’s neck with his right hand, who struggled in vain for a few times,
and then lost his voice.
Ziya intentionally blocked my view, but Lou Yun’s every move was too clear
in my eyes, as if branded in my heart, and I could always see
him accurately among ten thousand people.
His face was cold, his hands were covered with blood, his eyes were cool, and his body was filled with a
sense of unknown danger in the depths of the forest, more unfathomable and more sharp, and his bright
red blood stuck to his white and bony hands. The silver ring on the wrist is also decorated with some blood
, a kind of cruel contradictory aesthetics.
It’s not the same as it was in front of me.
I’ve only seen him like this in the beginning.
Dark and cold-blooded, powerful.. And lonely.
Ziya reached out and covered my eyes. My vision was covered by darkness, but his
figure became clearer and clearer in front of me.
He’s not happy.
“Mi Mi Er!” When I
reacted, I had already hung on Lou Yun. He was stunned and wanted to reach out and hug me, but he was worried about the blood on his hand.
“Don’t be afraid, brother. I’ll protect you.”
He chuckled, as if he thought my words were sudden and absurd, and wanted to make fun of something as usual, but his voice gradually became hoarse and trembling, and finally he only called my name: “Gu Jing.” It’s
not Mimi, it’s Gu Jing.
Not Lou Yun, who jokingly asked me to call my brother, nor Lou Yun, who indulgently said “Brother marry you” not long ago, but Asoturo, who exposed his true self to me and wanted me to recognize him.
“Yes, I am Gu Jing.” I jumped down and looked directly at him, confirming my intention with him again. “I like Asoturo, not frivolously, but no matter what Asoturo is, I would like to be with him for the rest of my life.”
My Asoturo was afraid that he would frighten me by killing all over, so he indulged me again and again, and let me go again and again, but it didn’t matter.
I’m coming towards him.
Lou Yun was a little moved, his eyes were slightly red, and his hand, which was more beautiful than a woman’s, gently covered my eyes. When it was dark
again, his kiss fell on my forehead, and this silent vow was more solemn than ever. 31
“Hi, brother, long time no see.” I greeted him as demurely as I could.
Gu Zhe looked at me and then at Lou Yun. “If I remember correctly, my sister has feet
.”
「……」
「……」
“Just get off the horse. You let her go.”
I hugged Lou Yun’s neck. “I don’t. I don’t have feet. I’m paralyzed.”
“Gu Jing!” “How shameless you are!” Gu Zhe shouted angrily.
I covered my ears and rolled my eyes. Instead, Lou Yun came to calm his mood. I was too lazy to listen to
their greetings. I jumped down and pulled Nizhen into the Prince’s Mansion.
……
“According to Wang Yeh, there are nine princes in the court at this time. If you pretend to surrender, you don’t have to worry about Chang’an for the time being
.”
“That’s right,” Ku raised an eyebrow. “The prince can’t get away at this time, and the nine princes are forcing him to
abdicate. There won’t be many people coming to southern Xinjiang, but it’s not to be underestimated.”
“Why?” I asked, frowning. “Because this man learned martial arts at the age of five, learned from a master at the age of eight, went to the battlefield at the age of fifteen, and at the age of sixteen
, one man and one horse took the head of an enemy general with a sword and made him a general. He was unfathomable
.”
“Sounds a little familiar.” Gu Zhe has always been conceited, and can get such a sincere affirmation
from him. I frowned thoughtfully and asked cautiously, “Who is this man?”
“It’s me.”
「……」 Judging
from the prince’s behavior, I can basically foresee the outcome of the battle to seize the throne. When
I was on the swing, I waited for Nini to reply.
She was bathed in blood and handed me the silver bracelet I knew all too well in silence. It was the one Lou
Yun wore on his hand every day. It was the style of a woman, but he didn’t look feminine. It
was particularly beautiful. Wipe clean
at the moment, but still smell the thick blood gas.
And a letter. Clean
, too, lying on the palm of Nizhen’s hand.
I took over, holding the bracelet hand actually some trembling, do not know what
to say for a while, the bottom of my heart is unprecedented calm. In fact, I should have expected this result.
The letter paper unfolded and there were only a few words.
This person is really more and more stingy, only give me such a few words, as if I am afraid of tears before I finish
reading.
I put the bracelet on my hand. “This day has come, after all.”
「……」
“Do it again. This morning, I grabbed him and let him eat another bowl of
porridge I made.”
「……」
“Not even..”
“Mimi, you have too much drama.” Connie looked really speechless. “Things are going
well. The Lord said he was starving and asked you what to eat tonight.”
“Oh,” I said, wiping away unwarranted tears. “Tungpo cuttlefish, Taibai duck, and
spicy boiled elbow meat. There’s a pot of soup stewing on the stove.”
“Ku asked if there was any spicy chicken he wanted.”
“No, the chicken ran away from home and couldn’t do it.”
「……」 On the 33rd
floor, I stood in the crowd to watch the ceremony, and I was really happy for him.
He smiled at me, just like the first time we met in the street. He was amused
by my audacity.
Gu Zhe only had time to drink a glass of wine with him, and hurried back to Chang’an, I know
, he still has a tough battle to fight.
Three days later, Lou Yun also went to Changan.
This time, as every time, I firmly believe that they will bring good news. In the 16th year
of Jingjia, when the emperor was seriously ill, Sima Zheng, the ninth prince, ascended the throne and changed his reign title to Minghe. In the first year of
the Ming Dynasty, Gu Jing, the emperor’s adopted sister, was granted the title of Princess Deyang and married Asoturo
, the king of southern Xinjiang.
Tan Lang Xie Nu, a good couple.
[END]
Fanwai 1 [Gu Zhe Fanwai]
I have a sister.
It’s kind of annoying. When I
was young, I was quite cute. I followed my buttocks and called my brother affectionately. I didn’t know how to raise him. I was less and less like a girl. When
I was seventeen, she was eleven.
Standing at the door of the mourning hall, I cried so loudly that I was out of breath. The wet nurse wanted to take her back to the house, but she threw her hand straight into my arms. Tears and snot wiped my front.
I hugged her tightly, like a frozen traveler hugging the last Mars. In the eleventh year of
my mother’s departure, my father died in battle.
I seem to remember very clearly the day my mother died. The wind and snow were very heavy, and the bedding was soaked with blood. I cried the same way. She patted me on the head like a flash of light, and scolded me, “Son of a bitch, take good care of your father, your sister, and yourself, or I’ll be a ghost..” What
did he want? He choked in her throat and followed her to another place.
After that, it’s just the two of us.
I don’t know how to raise a child, so I can only try my best to accompany her, no longer go to the battlefield, become an idle prince, search for famous doctors, learn pharmacology, but my sister’s health is still not improving.
So I read all kinds of books and buy all kinds of new things, just to add a little bit of color to her short life.
I thought I would die at the age of twenty-four, with my eyes closed with my only relative. But unexpectedly, when my mirror was only fifteen years old, the cup of poisonous wine was delivered to her
. When
I came back, she smiled at me with poisoned wine and told me the cruelest thing in the world. “Brother,”
he said, “now I finally know what my mother looks like!”
I just felt dizzy and couldn’t even remember what I said.
She looked up and gulped it down.
God, I kill evil, you directly pull me into the endless hell, why should
I take away my last sister? After years of drinking the poisoned wine,
Ah Jing was not killed on the spot, but she knew that
her life was not long, so she was deliberately angry with me, and I let her out of the house the next day.
I have my own way to reply to that fatuous monarch, and my mirror, selfish brother, has detained her
all these years, so let her take a good look at the world at last.
……
When Changming came to reply, I knelt in the mourning hall dressed in black, which was unprecedented calm
.
Someone saved my sister. After
waving back Changming, I kowtowed deeply to my parents’spirit tablets, trembling slightly, and put down
the sword that had just been sharpened. You
‘re protecting her. Then I unfolded the letter that Chang Ming had brought back. There were only a few words in it. “Don’t worry about the mirror.
See you in six days.”.
Inscription, peony.
……
“The flowers are beautiful.”
I was silent and did not speak. The sky outside was overcast, which was the weather I hated most.
From small to large, Gu Jing encountered cold water, the pain will always die.
“Are you worried about your sister?”
Sima Zheng’s smile is not clear. I don’t like him very much today.
“Cut the crap.”
“All right!” Sima Zheng laughed in a low voice. “Ah Zhe asked me earlier if I could show my sincerity
, and I brought it today.”
「？」
“Ah Tse, I’ll take you to her.”
“Who?”
“Of course it’s the mirror.” “Where is she?”
“Do you like peonies?”
「？」 I was stunned. “Can you be a little more cheerful?”
Sima Zheng smiled without a word, and Danfeng’s eyes narrowed slightly, as if he would not answer me if I did not answer his
brainless question.
“I don’t like peonies. Do I like you?” Son
of a bitch laughed out loud.
“But you haven’t even seen her, and you can say you like her just by letters?”
I calmed down for a moment, then raised my middle finger. “Mind your own business, damn it
.”
Sima Zheng seemed to have a mad disease, and he was scolded by me, but he could still laugh so hard that he couldn’t see his teeth.
He broke off a branch
and played with it for a moment. Then he folded the fan and said, “Let’s go. She’s coming
.” The
rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was very noisy on the umbrella. I was clasped by his arm and could not break
free.
“Son of a bitch,” I growled, “Gu Jing can’t touch cold water!” “Someone will come to save her,” Sima Zheng’s men said coolly. “Does the prince
want to rush out now and announce to the world that she’s not dead?”
I gradually calmed down.
Soon, a man in black came on horseback, pulled up the mirror, and they quickly disappeared into the rain
curtain.
I know him, Asoturo. The son of the King of
Southern Xinjiang, the descendant of the traveling doctor more than ten years ago.
Now you can.. Have you talked to me? Sima Zheng let go of his hand, threw away the annoying
fake smile, and became the nine princes with noble and ruthless, cold eyebrows and eyes. The tension
I’ve been feeling these days has finally relaxed. “Thank you.”
He chuckled. “What a lovely open temper you have.”
“Thanks for the compliment, but *** you.”
Father, mother, a Jing and I will live well.
Then.. I’ll see you later.
I always felt sleepy and tired some time ago, because I took medicine.
Lou Yun said that my illness was getting better, and I should have a good rest, and I was not allowed to go out. Gu Zhe also wrote to advise me not to go back to celebrate his birthday and try to avoid the fatigue of traveling.
“I won’t ***ing scold you.” That’s what he wrote. So
I wrote back, “You’d better be.”
Sure enough, in the next letter he became angry from embarrassment.
I sent him a large package of dried jade peony flowers, which are unique to southern Xinjiang, to calm his anger
.
Unlike Chang’an, the winter in southern Xinjiang is not too cold, so I don’t have to hold a heater and wrap
it in a big cloak of various colors. At the beginning of
November, when I was in good health, I went back to the door with Lou Yun.
But only a few months away, unexpectedly some do not adapt to the cold of Changan. Not to mention his
mouth, his eyes were red. From the dishes to the room, everything was prepared to
my liking. Even on the soft mattress blanket, which was not commonly used, there were my favorite orchid dark lines. On the
way back, I clung to the window and looked back. Gu Zhe looked at my probe and chased me a few
steps in a daze. He was pulled by His Majesty in civilian clothes before he could react. He managed to smile and wave
to me.
He laughed so hard that my tears fell without warning.
Lou Yun reached out his hand to catch the tears, and his palms, which had been white and dry, flashed a
pool of light. “Ah Jing, come to my brother’s arms and cry,” he whispered. No longer seeing the figure of Gu Zhe, I finally shrank into Lou Yun’s arms and cried in the dark.
His voice is gentle and deep, soft and tender, humming an unknown ditty in southern Xinjiang, soothing
my reluctant heart.
So this time, as usual, there was no dream. When I opened my eyes
again, the scenery changed. From this angle, I could only see the dark night outside the window, the few
stars, and the warm body behind me. I listened carefully. The more the car moved, the more noisy the voices outside
became.
“Home.” Lou Yun rubbed my hair gently with his chin.
I opened the curtain of the car, and the street outside was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and people came and went. “What
festival is it today?”
“It’s the Flower God Festival in southern Xinjiang.”
Lou Yun pulled me to stand outside the carriage.
Your Majesty! It’s the king and the princess! Someone exclaimed.
A small flower was thrown onto my hair. I was stunned for a moment. I held it in my fingers and saw that it was
Lily of the valley.
Immediately afterwards, countless flowers were thrown from the hands of pedestrians, and the rain of flowers fell on me. Holding a handful,
I looked back at Lou Yun. He was standing tall and graceful, looking at me with a smile.
He casually brushed off the petals on his shoulders. His white face was more delicate under the cover of the moonlight, and even
plated with a layer of silver, like a fairy and a demon, bewitching people. “The flowers represent the blessings of the people of southern Xinjiang,” says Lou Yun, raising his eyebrows, his thin lips gently raised, and his voice still
cool, like mint or moonlight. “They like you.” I
was so happy that I pulled out a handful of peonies brought back from Chang’an from the carriage and threw them out like
them.
There was a burst of cheers, and Lou Yun laughed in a low voice. “Mi Mi Er, hold my brother’s
hand tightly.” Before
I could react, he jumped out of the carriage first, and then stretched out his long arm to carry me out of the carriage
.
“Princess, they’re going to run away!” Before he
even had time to be stunned, Lou Yun pulled me up and ran around the crowd skillfully. His
clothes were flying and his silver bells were colliding. When he looked back at me, his eyebrows and eyes were all smiling. He was no longer
as indifferent and gloomy as when he first met me. Suddenly, he became bright.
But it’s still the same. It’s exciting.
The wind whistled past my ears, and the crowd behind me shouted and laughed, and I was infected. Then
laugh, laugh out loud, laugh more and more carefree.
“Princess!”
Someone called me with a smile, and when I looked back, countless broken petals of flowers came to us as if they were full of vitality
, and fell on the long street behind me, like the moonlight
, breaking into my exhausted and barren life. We are fugitives who are being hunted by flowers
at the moment, and we are in cahoots with each other for a hundred years. “Brother,”
Lou Yun looked back at me. His love was clear in his eyes, and his breath was unsteady because of running.
“Run a little faster.”
He smiled. It was the kind of brightness that can always make one’s heart beat.
He said something, which was drowned out by the surge of human voices, and I barely recognized the lip language.
“Hold on to me.”
“Good!”
I got you. I got you.
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