Duke Jing's younger sister

The wind whistled in her ears. Shen Li leaned in Luo Cheng's arms and said in a loud voice,

"Can you calm down a bit? You don't tell me anything and just want me to go with you. How can I go with you?"

"Luo Cheng, please stop first, can we have a good talk?"

Luo Cheng's jaw was clenched, and he kept waving the reins in his hand, ignoring her words.

Shen Li was confused for a moment, but it was not because she coveted the wealth of Jiangdu City and was reluctant to leave with Luo Cheng.

But her father and brother would be returning to Beijing soon. If she followed him without thinking, wouldn't she never be able to reunite with her family in this life?

But now he wouldn't listen to anything and was determined to leave. Did he want her to jump off the horse?

She tilted her head to look at the rapidly advancing horse. If she fell down at such a fast speed, she would be crippled if not killed. She let out a breath and could only give up the idea and take it one step at a time.

The chestnut colt carried a young couple straight through the city gate and came to the suburbs.

The horses' hooves kicked up a cloud of dust. The trees and grass on both sides of the road were swept by the strong wind, turning into distorted, floating, blurry afterimages in the night that quickly passed before her eyes.

A flash of lightning broke through the silent night sky, accompanied by thunder that came from far away. Raindrops as big as beans fell cracklingly, hitting the grass on the roadside and making a rustling sound.

The raindrops gradually turned into a rain curtain, hitting my face and causing pain.

"Luo Cheng, the rain is getting heavy, why don't we find a place to take shelter first?" The rain fell on Shen Li's long eyelashes, making her unable to open her eyes. She had to lift her wide sleeves to cover them slightly.

"Hold on, we can't stop now!"

Luo Yan didn't care about anything else. What if it rained? Even if it was raining knives, it couldn't stop him from moving forward. He just wanted to go faster and faster!

If he doesn't speed up, he will lose Shen Li forever!

Shen Li had no choice but to bury her head in her wide sleeves to block the rain.

However, the rain was too heavy, and the summer clothes were already thin, so soon I was soaked by the rain. When the night wind blew, I felt so cold that I was shivering.

There were bursts of horse hooves sounds coming from behind them. Listening carefully, they saw that there were many people coming. The sound of galloping was like thunder exploding in a rainy night, and they were chasing after them in the mud.

"drive--"

A trace of panic flashed across Luo Yan's face, and he shook the reins in his hand vigorously to make the horse run faster.

It’s a pity that no matter how excellent a horse is, it will eventually be defeated by a battle-hardened warhorse.

In a short while, a dozen cavalrymen caught up and surrounded him and Shen Li.

Luo Cheng was forced to pull the reins, and the horse neighed and slowly stopped.

It was dark at night, and Shen Li could not see clearly who was blocking their way. He could only vaguely see that they were wearing bamboo hats, and their silver helmets and armor were particularly conspicuous in the rainy night.

Although they were carrying swords, they did not fight each other. I guess they were family.

"Luo Yan——"

Someone behind him was calling his name.

Luo Cheng closed his eyes weakly, subconsciously tightened the reins in his hands, and felt a sense of sadness in his heart.

He knew that they couldn't leave today.

He slowly turned his horse's head, and Luo Jue dismounted and strode forward. His expression was unclear under his bamboo hat, but his voice was as cold as night rain, "Have you had enough of the trouble?"

"I'm not making trouble..." Luo Yan said hoarsely, "I just want to marry the person I love, why do you even force me to do that, big brother?"

'Crack--'

A flash of lightning lit up the night sky.

In the flash of white light, Shen Li accurately captured a young man with elegant manners and extraordinary handsomeness sitting on the tall white pony opposite.

Under the bamboo hat, his pair of extremely bright peach blossom eyes were illuminated by the white light, and his gaze fell directly on her, with a complex and sad light surging in his eyes.

She was startled and had the illusion that she was caught eloping with someone.

On second thought, in the eyes of others, isn't this just elopement?

After a brief moment of light, darkness returned to wherever the sight reached.

She could no longer see his expression, but she could keenly sense that his eyes had always stayed on her and had never moved away.

"Brother, please let us go, okay?"

Luo Cheng was unwilling to accept his fate. He begged in a sad voice, "I don't want anything. I only want Shen Li. She is willing to go with me..."

Luo Jue could no longer bear it, and before he could finish his words, he pulled him off the horse, grabbed him by the collar, and said angrily,

"You don't want anything? There are hundreds of people in the Luo family, and there are thousands of people in the three branches of the Luo family. Grandmother, parents, and your blood relatives, you don't want any of them, right? What do you want? Do you want them to die in vain because you disobeyed the emperor's order?"

"Snapped--"

Luo Jue raised his hand and slapped him with such force that he fell to the ground.

Shen Li was startled and immediately got off the horse.

"In the past, you were willful and we didn't restrict you, but you deserved what happened today. Do you want to drag your entire family to be buried with you?!"

Luo Jue was furious and wanted to kick his ignorant brother twice, but Shen Li opened his arms to stop him.

"Brother Luo, let's talk it out. Fighting won't solve any problems, right?"

Luo Cheng supported himself on his knee with one hand, his head drooped, and sat on the muddy ground with his back slightly bent.

The rain flowed down his messy hair. He didn't move, and he looked listless and lifeless.

Like a dry well sunk deep in the desert, dry and desolate. Shen Li squatted down and tried to pull him up, but he seemed to have lost his soul and did not respond at all.

"Brother Luo, what happened to Luo Cheng? He..."

Before she could finish her words, Shen Li was pulled to the side by someone's arm. She looked up blankly and met the young man's eyes that looked even darker in the night.

The next moment, he untied the hat on his head, put it on her without saying a word, and tied his raincoat around her shoulders.

"...No need," she murmured in a low voice. The rain was so heavy that she didn't know if he could hear her. "It's already soaked anyway."

Yueyang took out an umbrella and handed it to Shen Beiqi.

He held the umbrella and looked down at her, the raindrops falling on the umbrella making crackling sounds.

After a moment's silence, he whispered, "Go back to the carriage."

Shen Li bit her lower lip lightly. She didn’t want to go!

She still didn't know what happened to Luo Cheng, so she wanted to stay here and find out clearly.

Seeing that she hadn't moved, Shen Beiqi laughed angrily, "Why, are you really determined to go with him?"

Under the current circumstances, even if she said no, I'm afraid no one would believe her.

“…I just want to take a look.”

"What are you looking at?"

There was obvious anger in his words. Shen Li bit her lower lip and got angry for no apparent reason.

"Luo Cheng is not very good today, so I want to ask him what happened to him, is that ok?"

I really didn't expect that she really cares about Luo Cheng now!

Shen Beiqi chuckled, his jaw tense, and said word by word, "The emperor has issued an order to marry the fourth princess to the second son of the Luo family. In a month, he will be the consort of the Southern Wu."

Prince Consort?

Emperor Hongyang promised the fourth princess to Luo Cheng?

Shen Li shook her head in disbelief. "How...how is this possible? Isn't the person that the Fourth Princess has always admired her brother?"