blood marriage

Three days later, there was a knock on the door, Wanyao stood outside the main hall, watching Zhen Shi who pushed the door and slowly entered, she didn't bow down to salute like before.In the past, if she could bear it, she would endure it, and if she could retreat, she would retreat, but now that the Zhen family wants to put Qing'er to death, she no longer needs to be wronged and begged for peace.

"I heard that there are several branches of plum blossoms blooming on the bank of the Lishui River. They are red and white, and dotted with stars. They are really beautiful. I wanted to take my sister to see them earlier, but I haven't seen my sister. I thought you were killed by General Zhaoda. He was kidnapped." The face of Zhen's middle-aged lady was full of smiles, and she teased Wanyao coquettishly.

"Ma'am, you are joking. My father entrusted me to your Shangli clan. He must be aware of your status in the Jin Kingdom. In your territory, Zhaoxin is not capable enough."

"My sister is the most pleasing to the eye, but my husband put you here openly, I am afraid that it will be spread all over the world. I have an old house on the bank of the Lishui River. You can move there for a while. Wait for the wind to pass before moving back."

"I heard that this year's snow is the biggest in Car City in the past 20 years. It won't be too late to move until the snow melts."

"Well, every year when it snows, they will say that. Besides, there is everything over there. You just need to pass by. It's very convenient."

"Hey, Ma'am, I'm worrying too much. Our master spent a lot of money to build this house for the princess. I heard that it was built after the princess's bedroom in Chen country. I'm afraid the princess won't let it go." A woman with a big belly, Putting his hands on his waist, he walked out from behind Mrs. Zhen, and continued to sarcastically said: "This master's affection for the two princesses is well known in all countries. In the future, the master will marry the princess as master and servant. People, they are the subjects of our state of Jin, if Zhaoxin wants to do something to the princess again, it will be a matter between Chu and Jin."

"Keep your mouth clean!" Qing'er has suffered a lot of humiliation and scolding in her life, she doesn't care how others humiliate her, but it is the first time in her life when she hears others humiliate Wanyao, so she immediately draws her sword and thinks He stabbed at the woman's chest.

Wan Yao stretched out her hand to hold Qing'er, rubbing her fingers against her wrist, and apologized in a low voice: "Qing'er came from a humble background and is used to being rough, don't blame her for looking at this madam."

"Don't blame me? Hmph, I didn't know that I thought she was a princess, but you are a servant!"

Wan Yao sarcastically said without showing any weakness: "If I hadn't met Mrs. Zhen several times, I would have thought you were the head wife of the Shangli Clan? Huh?"

"Bah! Don't you dare—nonsense!"

"Why don't I dare? Even if the Chen Kingdom is destroyed, I will still be a princess. If the master speaks, I will allow you, a lowly maid, to interrupt! Or do you think that if you are pregnant with Dr. Shangli's child, you can take over as a substitute? Hmm?"

"No, no, ma'am, I didn't mean that..."

"Forget it, since you are pregnant, you can just kneel in the snow for an hour. In this way, sister, can you calm down?" Mrs. Zhen took Wanyao's hand and shook it in a friendly way.

"No, madam, please, for the sake of the fetus in my womb, please madam..."

"She's too loud, isn't she, Yan?"

"Yes." The black-haired man in red grabbed the pregnant woman's hair, staggered her upper and lower jaws, raised a knife in his hand, and a bloody red tongue fell into the white snow with wet and hot blood. The blood froze, forming a layer of frost in an instant.

"A cheap maid doesn't deserve to wear such bright clothes, right?"

"Yes." A loyal dog, a good dog who never says anything to its master, took off the cloak of the pregnant woman in a blink of an eye, tore off the heavy top and skirt on her body, ignoring the blood that was pouring out of her lower abdomen, and finally When a piece of obscene clothes was torn off, the pregnant woman finally stopped screaming from the depths of her throat, and completely fell into the snow.

It is said that in two months, this woman who is so proud all day long will be able to give birth. She is bitter, mean, and flattering to her master.She is the kind of person Wanyao despises the most, but even so, Wanyao never thought of putting her to death, she never thought of killing anyone, her father, Zhaoxin, who never knew each other but stepped on her She never thought about cursing the wound to please the wife's concubine, hating it, loving it, whatever.

Even life and death on the battlefield, there is no such way of death, which is even more frightening.

"In her belly, she is pregnant with the flesh and blood of your Shangli family." Wanyao's dark eyes were set off by the faded face, all the monstrous anger was about to erupt at any time.

"So what? If my husband is here, I'm afraid she will die even worse after hearing her words," the lady's face is still full of smiles, as if asking, this child is not polite , Punish him to stand in the corner, so innocuous, "Yan seldom does it by himself, such a slave who knows no dignity, it is her blessing to die under Yan's knife, of course, your maid will do the same, ah , I can't wait, your maid's face is more beautiful than any face I've ever seen before, so I'll use it to carve a lantern and hang it under your eaves, okay? Tsk, your place is too big I'm afraid one is not enough. It just so happens that you two maidservants, one on each side, wouldn't it be more beautiful? Listen to Yan, the road here is very dark at night and it is really difficult to walk. Why don't you use their bones as a cushion? What do you think, my Princess Chen? Hahaha..."

"I think it would be better to use your skin and bones, after all, the older you get, the looser the skin and the tougher the bones!" Wan Yao pulled out the dagger hidden in her abdomen, ready to fight to the death.

The blood of the pregnant woman melted the snow under her body, and in the vast white world, it was bright and dirty.

In the coming year, the weeds here will definitely grow extraordinarily lush.Thinking so, Qing'er withdrew her sword, and she remembered a rumor about Lishui.

It is rumored that during the severe winter, the water of the Li River is not in the Three Realms and Five Elements, and those who die in the Li River will live forever and cannot be reborn.

"Madam wants to take the princess to enjoy the plum blossoms on the bank of the Lishui River. It's getting late. The princess is not in good health and can't stand the cold. The servants are bold enough to go through this for the princess."

"Qing'er, you—"

"Princess, Na Yan, I know him, even if Aunt Nianzhu and I work together, we are no match for him. In this world, the only person who can fight him on equal footing is the young son of the Zhao family of Chu State——Zhao Xin, she It's Yan's junior sister, if she was here, she might be able to save my life because of the old friendship, but it's a pity that she's not here."

"Do you know, it's not me that this woman hates, but you!"

"know."

"Now that you know, give me the sword. Even if you die, I won't teach you to go to the Underworld Road alone!"

Qing'er shook her head, "Princess, even if you don't meet Zhaoxin, even if we marry Wu, Chen will still perish. I'm not trying to excuse anyone, but I just don't want you to suffer from the past anymore." Blame yourself," Qing'er lowered her head, hid the reluctance in her eyes, and said with a frivolous and unrestrained smile, "Do you know, how much I want to call you Xiaoyao, like Duke Guo, like Zhaoxin, originally I There is a chance, isn't it, my Aunt Rosary?"

"When did you know?"

"When I came back from Nanshan, the Duke told me not to blame you, but after so many years, I couldn't do it, so please take good care of my Xiaoyao. If she has a little bit of loss, she will meet you in the underworld every day. I hope you can think up your words."

"What are you talking about? What do you want to see? Qing'er, I'm useless. I've been holding you back. This time, let me fight side by side with you, okay? Don't leave me like a fool again. Are you okay?" Wanyao's voice was already tinged with tears. She thought that she would become stronger and more rational after going through the pain of the country's destruction and family destruction, but now she is at a loss and her mind is in chaos. She hates herself to the core. How stupid you can't do it!

"I wish it was me who could spend the rest of my life with you, not that horrible old woman." Qing'er helped Wan Yao who was in a daze, and imprinted Wan Yao's image in his head over and over again, Only then did he pluck up the courage to follow his wife out.

From now on, the sky is high and the earth is far away, we will never see each other again.

"Princess, would you rather sit like this in the freezing weather than drink a hot meal on the warm couch?"

Wan Yao knelt by the river, staring at the river with empty eyes, the cold wind blew off the hairpin on her head, she just blinked, and continued to stare at the river with empty eyes.

"The man is gone, princess—" A sharp slap landed on Rosary's face, Rosary knelt on the ground, lowered her head, and continued without a pause: "Princess, I watched you grow up, you want to grow up?" If you don’t eat, I won’t eat; if you don’t sleep, I won’t sleep; if you want to die and follow Qing’er, I will never live in this world.”

"If you haven't seen Qing'er's body, it's not considered her dead. Don't say such things in the future."

"Chen is a good witch. I learned some soul-searching techniques in the past. Qing'er has indeed gone, but her body and soul are gone, as if someone deliberately hid her."

After a long time, Wan Yao moved her pale and chapped lips, and asked weakly, "Where is Shangli Mansion?"

"No."

"Then look for it. If there is no Shangli mansion, just search through the carriage city for me. If there is no one in the city, go look outside the city! I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die!" Wan Yao said too fiercely, and began to stop He coughed like he wanted to cough up all the internal organs, pulling his chest up and down.

"Princess, princess."

"I'm fine, you can go and look for it, they don't dare to touch me when they go to the Li clan, they can't afford to be scolded by all the countries in the world."

"Yes, I will come back as soon as possible, before sunset."

The footsteps went far away, then turned back, and stopped behind Wanyao, a piece of bloody animal skin was draped over her body, and the heat returned to her body, Wanyao relaxed her frozen lips, and said: "If you don't leave, you won't be able to come back before sunset."

After a long time, there was no sound of footsteps, Wanyao, who realized something was wrong, tore off the animal skin from her body, and staggered to her feet.

"The animal skin is much warmer than the cloak on your body." Zhaoxin picked up the animal skin and put it back on Wanyao, put his hands gently on Wanyao's shoulders, as if afraid of scaring her, and said softly : "If you don't want to see me, you don't have to look back. I've prepared some meals for you. You can eat as much as you want. I rushed over the day I heard about you. I didn't think about it. I was still a step late."

"If you were here, Qing'er would be fine, right?"

"Yes."

"If I hadn't brought you back to Wanqiu back then, the Kingdom of Chen wouldn't have died, would it?"

Zhaoxin pondered for a moment, then said, "No, it's Wanqiu that you want to take me back to. I intended to take you back to Chu, but never thought of taking you to Wanqiu."

"Okay, okay," the dried tears hung on her skin, the skin hurt like a bruised flesh, Wanyao let the tears gush out, and then formed into tiny ice scum, "Are you looking for me?"

"Yes, I want to take you back. I promised you that I will marry you."

"Okay, then you step back."

"what?"

"Back up, keep backing up until I say stop."

The wooden clogs stepped on the snow, creaking, sounding, getting farther and farther away.

"Okay, Zhaoxin, let's end the relationship between you and me." I want you to watch how I die in front of you, and I want you to end your life without a happy ending.

Wanyao finally jumped into the dripping water, the cold river water filled her nose and eyes, and in the darkness, a pair of slender and rough palms grabbed her and dragged her to the shore, before Wanyao's consciousness disappeared. At this moment, he hugged Zhaoxin by the waist and dragged her into the deeper and colder river bottom.