Princess, please respect yourself
Chapter 48
manage?You are guarding my door, how can you follow suit and stop checking when you see my confidants coming in and out? "
The guards were so ashamed that they knelt at Long Gui's feet and begged for punishment.
Long Gui said coldly: "You are negligent in your duties and should have beheaded to show the public. Thinking about this critical period, go to the Pioneer Camp to report, and then fight the enemy bravely and atone for your sins."
The guards bowed their thanks and stepped back.
Long Gui walked out alone, planning to go to the stable to find a horse first, and then go out of the city to find Ziluan.Unexpectedly, Tian Canzi knelt on the ground and firmly grabbed her skirt to prevent her from leaving.
"Princess, think twice!" Tian Canzi pleaded bitterly, "You also know that this is an extraordinary period. Once you leave, who will take charge of the overall situation? When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, you and I will be the sinners of the Dragon Kingdom!"
Long Gui looked down at Tian Canzi, with a rare serious expression on his face.
Long Gui asked coldly: "You did it on purpose?!"
Tian Canzi held on to Long Gui's skirt tightly with both hands, looked into Long Gui's eyes and replied: "Shen Ziluan is an auspicious person, so he will be auspicious if he dies!"
Long Gui reached out and grabbed Tian Canzi by the collar, slowly lifted him up, and said word by word bitterly, "You knew she would be 'killed'?!"
Tian Canzi was so strangled by the collar that he couldn't breathe, his face turned crimson purple, and he stammered, "This subordinate... is wholeheartedly planning... for the princess, and I hope the princess... will come to fruition."
Long Gui tightened his fingers and asked back: "I will fulfill you, who will fulfill me?"
"If you do this...you will harm her..." Tian Canzi said with the last bit of strength.
Long Gui was taken aback for a moment, then let go of his hand, and Tian Canzi fell to the ground like a stone, paralyzed there and coughing endlessly.
Long Gui looked around and found himself in a simple square house, with simple paper lanterns hanging under the corridor, illuminating the thick snow on the corridor handrails.Because the guards from just now had gone to collect their punishment, and the new guards hadn't arrived yet, the yard was empty and covered with snow and sundries, and it looked calm and comfortable in the dark night.
But Long Gui understood that there were countless prying eyes hidden behind this seemingly peaceful place, just like ferocious monsters lurking in the dark, ready to break through the snow and devour anyone at any time.
The newly arrived guard trotted into the yard and saw Long Gui standing alone at the door. Under the leadership of the team leader Li Changhe, he knelt in front of Long Gui and saluted.
"The armor is on, so there is no need to be polite!" Long Gui gently told them to stand up.
Li Changhe opened his mouth and said: "Princess, you are worthy, it is windy and snowy outside, please go back to your room to rest."
Long Gui sighed first, and then said sympathetically, "I still have a roof and four walls to shelter from the wind and snow. I'm sorry for the countless guards and patrolling soldiers outside, who don't have an inch of tile on their heads."
Li Changhe didn't get up, but lowered his head and said loudly: "Princess benevolence!"
The rest of the soldiers also echoed: "Princess benevolence!"
Long Gui asked, "Is there anything to keep out the cold in the warehouse?"
"No!" Li Changhe looked up at Long Gui with a look of resentment on his face, "The court has embezzled supplies year after year, and even the arrows are not fully equipped, let alone something to keep out the cold!"
Long Gui thought for a while and said, "This time I burned the padded clothes sent by the court to resist the enemy, but I still have some furniture, where can I buy these things?"
Li Changhe gritted his teeth, and replied with a tense jaw: "You can't buy it. Here, clothes and food are more precious than gold."
Long Gui tilted his upper body slightly, lowered his voice and asked, "Where is there?"
Li Changhe couldn't help lowering his head under Long Gui's gaze, and replied in a low voice: "I heard that there are some captured Mohe leather clothes in the warehouse of Hengcheng."
Long Gui straightened up and sneered, "Where is Guo Yi? He's really capable."
He kicked Tian Canzi, who was kneeling at his feet with his head down, and asked, "When will the snow stop?"
Tian Canzi quickly replied: "In my humble opinion, although the snow is heavy, it has no power to continue, and it will stop at dawn tomorrow."
The soldiers kneeling on the ground all showed disdain. Here, such heavy snow lasts for more than half a month, and it is common for livestock to freeze to death.
Long Gui saw the contempt in their eyes, but didn't explain anything, just said: "Now the treasury of the Dragon Kingdom is empty, and the ministers donated money to buy those cotton coats. As members of the Dragon Kingdom, we should work together , to overcome difficulties together."
After finishing speaking, seeing that they were still kneeling on the ground, he had no choice but to say: "Please get up quickly, I will go back to the room to rest."
After speaking, he turned and returned to the bedroom.
Seeing Long Gui leaving, Tian Canzi got up and slipped back to his bedroom with one kick high and one low.
All the soldiers also stood up. Although they didn't say anything, they could see the ridicule in each other's eyes.
When Long Gui returned to the room, he didn't take off the cloak immediately. The charcoal basin was lit in the room, and the heat wave hit his face, causing the cold air on the cloak to penetrate through the body, which lifted people's spirits.
"Does caring cause chaos?" Long Gui asked herself standing there motionless, thinking of a little bird she loved when she was young, it was a little sparrow she picked up by accident in the garden, ordinary and young, but she was I like it so much, I insist on putting it on the bedside when I sleep, but the next morning, there are only a few bird feathers and a pool of blood left on the bedside.
From that time on, Long Gui knew that he could not like anything at will, unless he had the ability to protect her well, and from that time on, Long Gui hoped that he could become stronger and one day be able to do whatever he wanted.
Long Gui didn't believe in retribution from ghosts and gods, but he still put his hands together and prayed silently in his heart: May the gods and Buddhas bless Shen Ziluan to return safely, otherwise, I would be too lonely in this dangerous world.
The image of Longgui praying was reflected on the window by the flames. Seeing the silhouette of Longgui on the window, the soldiers also prayed: May the flames of war subside and return to the fields as soon as possible.
☆, conscience
After Ziluan went out of the city, she found a leeward place and evenly applied a layer of dark-colored mud on her face to hide her skin color. Then she changed into the clothes in her package. Then he remembered that he hadn't mentioned to Long Gui that Che Fei was a prince, and he couldn't help being a little annoyed. He wanted to turn back to Gucheng immediately, but when he looked back, Gucheng had become a small dot on the horizon on the vast grassland.
Ziluan weighed it for a while, and felt that since the Mohe tribe's sneak attack had been repelled, the letter was not so important, but could be used to deceive the Mohe people, so she hid the letter next to her body.After changing the clothes, bury the original clothes under a tree, mark the tree, and then continue to go deep into the grassland.
It was as if the god had spilled the ink, and the dark clouds rolled over quickly, and the cold wind suddenly picked up and blew through the thin leather jacket on Ziluan's body. But, like a thousand arrows piercing the heart, at this moment, Ziluan no longer has the heart to think whether the emperor ordered the killing of her parents, and is only looking forward to finding a safe place as soon as possible.
Suddenly, Zi Luan reined in the horse's head fiercely, and listened carefully to the direction of the wind. Sure enough, the woman's painful howling came faintly along with the wind, which sounded heart-piercing, like a ghost appearing in the world.
Ziluan identified the direction of the source of the sound, and searched for it step by step—maybe someone was seriously injured, and he couldn't ignore it.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and a large cloud of snow fell on Ziluan, and he became exhausted even when he was walking on the snow. Ziluan got off the horse in distress, and pulled the rein with the horse to brave the wind and snow. Maybe the snow was falling too hard, and the sound disappeared, but Ziluan firmly believed that what she heard was not a hallucination. Finally, she finally found a dilapidated felt tent that had been half buried in the snow. Her fingers were bruised and purple, but when she stood outside the tent door, she remained polite and asked loudly, "Is anyone there?"
The tent door was opened a small crack, and a pair of cloudy eyes looked at Ziluan warily.
"I... I heard someone shouting for pain." Ziluan couldn't straighten her tongue, and said a Mohe speech with her tongue, but it was more like the tone of a Mohe person.
The eyeballs turned back and forth a few times, looked Zi Luan up and down, and saw a gleam of brilliance when he saw the blood, slowly opened the tent a crack, and let Zi Luan in.
Zi Luan gratefully got into the tent, there was no light in the tent, and there was a bloody smell that made one want to vomit, cold wind and a ray of light came in through the cracks of the tent that had been in disrepair for a long time.
After her eyes got used to the darkness, Zi Luan vaguely saw a person lying in the corner of the tent.
"But someone needs help?" Zi Luan asked.
"Do you know how to deliver babies?" A deep and hoarse voice sounded behind Ziluan.
"This..." Ziluan turned around, and said to her in embarrassment: "Probably yes... you don't mind lighting a candle, do you?"
"I didn't." The voice said coldly.
"It's okay, it's okay, I have it." Ziluan took out a candle stub and lit it, secretly glad that everything in the suit was complete.
Zi Luan couldn't help but be surprised when the candles were in full bloom: In the corner, there was a woman with a huge chubby belly, no pants, her feet were tightly pressed on the thin blanket on the ground.
Ziluan also finally understood why the voice she heard was intermittent, because the woman had a big ball of clothes stuffed into her mouth and her hands and feet were tied tightly.
"Are you alright?" Ziluan approached the woman holding the candle.
It's a pity that the woman has passed out and cannot answer.Seeing that the situation was urgent, Ziluan turned her head and asked, "If this continues, she will die. May I give her a few needles?"
By the light of the candle, Zi Luan saw that the person was a short and thin old woman, her back was bent by the hardships of life, the wrinkles on her face were like the dry and cracked earth, and the clothes on her body were shabby, only strands of clothes were hanging. Seeing Ziluan asking her, she pretended not to hear her, and responded, "Do you want to protect your horse from the wind and snow?"
"..." Ziluan nodded, and after the old woman went out with the blanket, she took out the silver needle, burned it on the candle, stabbed the acupuncture point on the woman's body, and then twisted it slowly.
The silver needle touched the acupoint, and the woman woke up leisurely, and then broke out in a cold sweat in pain, the hair from her temples stuck to her face, and there was a whining sound from her mouth.
Ziluan said apologetically: "I don't know how to deliver babies either. In the past, when my stomach hurts, others would rub it for me. How about I rub it for you too?"
After finishing speaking, he gently rubbed the woman's towering belly and pushed down in the direction.
Every time the woman was about to faint in pain, Ziluan twisted the silver needle to keep her awake, and finally, the meat ball slowly descended and squeezed out of the mother's body.
Facing the little thing that was still steaming, Zi Luan was at a loss, so she had to pull out the sackcloth from the woman's mouth, and while helping her untie the ropes on her hands and feet, she asked, "Do you know how to do it?"
The woman nodded, and as soon as her hands were able to move freely, she hurriedly reached out to reach her child, wiped it with a rag, and cut the umbilical cord with a sharp stone. Finally, the child let out a cat-like cry, and the woman With a gratified smile on his face, he unbuttoned his clothes and hugged the child close to the flesh.
Ziluan also breathed a sigh of relief, and only after he relaxed did he realize that he was tired and cold, so he leaned against a corner of the tent to rest.
The old woman got into the tent and saw that the woman had already sat up, so she asked, "Emma, is it a man or a woman?"
Emma lowered her head and replied, "It's a girl."
"Great God blessed the birth of a girl." The old woman put her hands together and murmured thanks.
Ziluan wondered: "Aren't boys better?"
"What do you know?" The old woman glared at Ziluan, and reprimanded: "It is enough for one man to be able to sow seeds, and more women are needed to have more children and more warriors. Kill all the people!"
Ziluan was speechless, rubbed her face vigorously, thought for a while and said: "This is too unfair to women."
"Ke Keke." The old lady laughed a few times, "Fair? How can the people of Longguo understand our hardships? As long as we can survive, we will be fine. How dare we ask for 'fairness'!"
The words were not speculative, Ziluan simply ignored her, closed her eyes and fell asleep, and felt a figure floating in front of her eyes, and then a pair of hands like chicken feet grabbed her wrists, opened her eyes and found the old woman sitting beside her , pressed his wrist hard.
"Speak up if you have something to say." Ziluan said anxiously, "You let go first."
However, the old woman grabbed her even tighter. Emma Cui Chi: "Hurry up! Hurry up and tie her up, don't let her run away!"
Emma rushed forward as swiftly as a monkey, and tied Ziluan tightly with the cloth strip Ziluan untied just now.
"Hey!" Ziluan felt her heart was broken, and asked in confusion, "Why tie me up? I can't have children."
☆, lie
"Ke Keke." The old woman let out that strange laugh again, "What an idiot! Your strange accent has already revealed your identity, you are a spy from the Dragon Kingdom!"
"I... I'm just frozen and my tongue isn't flexible!"
The old woman raised her chicken paw-like hand and scratched Ziluan's face fiercely. Fortunately, the mud on Ziluan's face was thick, and she only scratched the mud covered with nails.
"And your face is exactly the same as that bastard daughter of mine!" Uta curled her thin fingers together into fists, held them up to Ziluan's eyes, and said angrily, "The people of Longguo took away all the men in my family!" , but left me a bastard!"
The old woman shook her hands and looked up at the sky. She seemed to be scolding and asked back: "How can I, Wuta, have a bastard daughter? It must be sent by the Great God to punish the people of the Dragon Kingdom. It must be..."
Suddenly pointing at Ziluan's face, almost poking her in the eye, he said sharply, "Don't tell me you are Wula's daughter, you came here to find us!"
"Wula?" Zi Luan was quick to wit, and blurted out, "It was Wula who asked me to come!"
"Ke Keke!" Uta's face twisted, "Didn't she climb to the top of the Dragon Kingdom? Why do you want us!"
"No no no!" Ziluan quickly denied, "She misses you very much and looks forward to coming back every day!"
Uta looked at Ziluan suspiciously, "I used to beat her every day and make her work so hard that she would die, but she wants to come back? Impossible, she must hate me to death."
"...you are her mother." Ziluan looked at Uta with pity, "How could she hate you?"
Uta shook her head again and again, took a step back, and refused to believe it, "Impossible, she is just a bastard sent by the Great God to pay off the debts of the people of the Dragon Kingdom..."
Emma sat on the ground as if she had exhausted all her strength. Seeing that Uta was unable to make a decision, she suggested wearily, "Send her to the patriarch and let the wise people judge."
Uta nodded, and pulled Ziluan out of the tent.The blizzard that had been raging all night unexpectedly stopped, the sky was as blue as washing, but the wind cut his face like a knife.
Emma put on all the clothes she could wear, carefully put away the tent, and put it on Tread's back.
Seeing her stumbling with the baby in her arms, Ziluan couldn't bear it, and persuaded: "You just gave birth, you should take a rest."
Uta tugged hard on the rope, almost knocking Ziluan to the ground, "Don't pretend to be merciful, you just want to take the opportunity to escape!"
Ziluan struggled to maintain her balance in the snow, and asked, "How can you treat her like this? Aren't you a woman? Haven't you ever given birth to a child?"
Uta forcefully pushed Ziluan into the snow, "I have given birth to fifteen children, but only that bastard Ula survived. Yes, I didn't kill her, it's too cheap for her to die!"
Ziluan fell into the snow, because her hands were bound, she couldn't struggle for a while, she turned to look at Uta angrily, and felt that she was incompatible with this pure white world, like a sinister witch standing in the bright sunshine .
"How could there be such a person..." Zi Luan sighed in disbelief, the hot air that he exhaled moistened the loose hair on his forehead, and soon frost formed.
Finally Emma finished packing her things, stepped forward to pull Ziluan up, and whispered in her ear: "Don't pay attention to that old thing, she just loves to chatter."
Ziluan's heart warmed, and Emma continued: "What nonsense is there with you, a spy, the patriarch will cut you to pieces immediately!"
After finishing speaking, he hung a pile of pots and salt on Ziluan's back, and drove Ziluan forward with a wooden stick.
The three trekked hard in the snow. Ziluan was inexperienced and fell into snow pits from time to time. Emma didn't pull her, but used a wooden stick to stimulate her potential.
In this way, the three stopped and walked, following the hidden signs left by the migration of the Mohe tribe, until the evening to find a few larger camps.
Emma unloaded Ziluan's load and pushed her into a tent. Ziluan lay down on the ground, so tired that she just wanted to pass out.
"You crazy woman, who did you quarrel with this time?" An old voice asked, Ziluan peeked and saw an old man with a goatee, standing or standing with three other old men.
"She is a spy of the Dragon Kingdom!" Wuta said in a shrill voice.
"Just kill it, what are you doing here? Don't attract people from the Dragon Kingdom." Goatee said impatiently.
Wuta was speechless, turned around and kicked Ziluan hard, and asked, "Didn't you say you were born by that bastard Ula?"
"..." Ziluan raised her head with difficulty and looked at Wuta, "When did I say that? I just said that Wula asked me to send a letter."
"You weren't born by her, why send her a letter?!" Uta kicked Ziluan non-stop.
Ziluan didn't want to explain to her anymore, anyway, she couldn't feel the pain in her frozen limbs, so she simply closed her eyes and ignored her.
"Get out of the way, you crazy woman!" Someone stepped forward and pulled Uta away, "Did you send her here just to beat her in front of us?"
"They should all be damned! These bastards from the Dragon Kingdom should all be damned!" Uta struggled and roared, and soon the voice came out of the tent, as if being dragged away.
"Who are you?" Goatee asked Ziluan coldly.
Before Ziluan could answer, Uta struggled desperately to get back to the tent like crazy, and asked loudly, "Is his horse mine?"
The goatee glared at Uta, and said slowly, "That depends on what kind of news she brings us."
Uta kicked Ziluan again in disappointment, and cursed: "Damn bastard, I really regret not killing you directly!"
Seeing the goatee glaring at her sullenly, he left the tent muttering.
Emma squatted quietly in a corner of the tent, staring at Ziluan.
Ziluan was thinking about how to tell a big lie, the old man urged: "Who are you?"
"Wula couldn't wait for the news, so she sent me to meet Bazagan!" Ziluan said.
"Then why did you come here?" The old man frowned.
"I... I'm lost." Ziluan started talking nonsense.
Because this kind of argument is too unconvincing, the old man asked back: "Lost?"
"Yeah!" Ziluan continued to make up, "It was a war at the time, and it was too chaotic. I was in a hurry to send a letter to Ula, but I ran in the wrong direction."
"War?" The goatee bent down and grabbed Ziluan's arm, and asked excitedly, "But the wolf king won?"
"I... I don't know, it was a mess at the time." Ziluan felt a little guilty when she thought of the fake head of the wolf king she had made.
Goatee let out a long sigh of disappointment.
"Wait." The other old man closed his eyes, looking unfathomable, "Do you have proof?"
"I have faith!" Ziluan said confidently.
The old man opened his eyes towards Ziluan, revealing two pale and chaotic eyes, and Ziluan let out a short scream as if being pricked by a needle - he turned out to be blind.
The old man looked as usual, followed the voice to Ziluan, reached out his hand to find the letter from Bazagan from her bosom, and handed it to Goatee.
Goatee opened it and took a look, then nodded and said, "It's the letter written by the Wolf King. It's a pity that it wasn't sent to Ula. It's useless now."
After speaking, throw the letter into the charcoal basin and burn it.
Ziluan was unavoidably surprised, only the royal family members of the Mohe family had the opportunity to learn characters, but this goatee was not dressed like a royal family member.
"Girl, you have been wronged." The blind man stretched out his hand to help Ziluan up.
Ziluan blushed and realized that her disguise was useless to a blind person.
"You are actually a woman?" Emma stepped forward to untie the rope that bound Zi Luan in surprise, "Looking at your clothes, I thought you were a barbarian."
"Barbarian?" Ziluan repeated in confusion.
"It's the barbarians from over there who always plunder our livestock and women." Emma pointed in one direction, and Ziluan guessed that it was deeper in the grassland. She looked down at her "Mohe tribe" clothing, I can't see any difference at all.
"Why are you dressed like this?" Emma asked.
"I wanted to join the war, but I couldn't find a suitable costume for a while." Ziluan couldn't make it up anymore, as expected, a lie needs a hundred lies to explain.
Emma looked at Ziluan with piercing eyes, "If I hadn't given birth, I would have joined the war!"
"Yes, yes." Ziluan echoed casually, "Who doesn't want to go to war?"
The author has something to say: Little angels, can you remember those messy names?
I can't even remember it myself. (tears streaming down my face)
☆, planning
After Long Gui got up early, he opened the window calmly but anxiously, and he was relieved when he saw the clear blue sky, and asked someone to call Tian Canzi.
When Tian Canzi arrived, Long Gui was sharpening his sword with a whetstone. The rough whetstone passed across the sword, making a grinding sound that made people's teeth grind.
Tian Canzi shrugged and stood aside cautiously, "Princess, what can you do with me?"
"It's nothing serious, it's just that I've raised you for so long, and I want you to do me a favor."
"Hey..." Tian Canzi subconsciously tried to find an excuse to refuse.
Long Gui put down the whetstone, flicked on the sword with his fingers, and the sword trembled and let out a mournful hum.
"You disagree?" Long Gui looked at Tian Canzi with a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"No, no, no!" Tian Canzi frightened the good leg weak, and the disabled leg was short, expressing his heart again and again, "I was born as a princess, and died as a ghost of the princess, what did the princess want me to do? Just do whatever, absolutely no nonsense!"
"Shameless!" Long Gui scolded with a smile, "It's also an advantage."
Carefully insert the sword back into the sheath, there is no female sword, the scabbard is slightly larger.
Long Gui smiled and said to Tian Canzi: "It's nothing serious, but seeing you have been with me for so long and your clothes are still so tacky, I can't bear it anymore, I want you to find a set of tasteful clothes to change into."
Tian Canzi said cheekily: "I don't have much spare money on me, so please give me some clothes, princess."
Long Gui said helplessly: "You, you are really stingy. Since you have made such a request, don't pick and choose, saying that the clothes I prepared for you are too fresh and refined!"
Tian Canzi said "I dare not", and kowtowed again and again to thank him.
Long Gui asked seemingly casually: "Guo Yi is a nice person, what do you think?"
"This person has a traitor in the back of his head!" Tian Canzi said seriously, "I have a person here who can testify that the sudden appearance of the Mohe tribe's army is inseparable from him!"
Long Gui sighed sadly, with an expression of seeing a righteous hero stealing steamed buns, he asked incredulously, "How did this happen?"
Tian Canzi quickly retreated and brought Li Si back.
Seeing Long Gui, Li Si immediately bowed on the ground, "See the princess."
"People from the capital know the rules." Long Gui said softly, "Please get up and tell me what's going on."
Li Si recalled the situation when he met Guo Yi at that time, and said: "That day I said that I was a subordinate of the old general Fengtongling, and he would kill me without asking a word. Lie to him, and we will have a chance to escape."
"Hundred years old?" Long Gui really felt unbelievable, "She can lie to people?"
"Yes, and he also knows the characters of the Mohe people. He found a letter from the Mohe people, saying that someone who died is the eldest prince."
"What?" Long Gui's face changed drastically in shock, "You said the eldest prince is dead?"
Li Si nodded, "That's what he said. Not long after we left Hengcheng, soldiers from the Mohe clan appeared behind us."
Long Gui put his hands behind his back, turned his back to the two and fell into deep thought.
Both Tian Canzi and Li Siju silently looked at Long Gui's back, waiting for her decision.
"This person can't be kept." After a while, Long Gui said firmly, "I can return to the capital with peace of mind after he is dealt with."
Tian Canzi hurriedly shouted: "Princess is wise and mighty, peerless!"
The loud voice startled Li Si, and he wanted to shout, but felt embarrassed.
The princess nodded very helpfully, then turned to Li Si and asked, "Talk about the hundred-year-old thing again."
"He also made a fake head of the wolf king, and asked me to take it with me. If I have a chance, I will take it out and use it as a real one."
"She's really smart." Long Gui smiled softly.
"Yes, Bai Sui is smart and brave. I was useless. I was found when I set the fire, so I had to flee on horseback. On the way, I lost the head. Fortunately, the princess was brave and killed the real wolf king."
Long Gui laughed loudly without any explanation—what a beautiful misunderstanding!
Thinking of the promise made that day, he asked Tian Canzi: "Are there any people who drove the carriage that day survived?"
Tian Canzi replied: "Princess Tianyou, two people survived and killed over a hundred enemies!"
Long Gui smiled and said: "It's time to fulfill the promise." He asked Tian Canzi to call those two people over.
Li Si also wanted to leave, Long Gui said softly, "You have contributed a lot to this victory, if you hadn't made the enemy take it lightly, we wouldn't have won so easily, so don't belittle yourself, in your position, Seek his own government and continue to serve the country."
Hearing Long Gui's words of encouragement, Li Si was moved to tears. Ever since he woke up, he had been living in the eyes of ridicule and sympathy from others. Until today, he found the meaning of living again.
Li Si choked up and said: "I am willing to go through fire and water for the princess, no matter what!"
"That's right!" Long Gui ordered a few words and asked Li Si to go back and prepare.
Soon, two brave and lucky people came to see Long Gui. Long Gui smiled and asked, "You are excellent fighters, facing the crisis of the country, now I ask you, do you want a thousand taels of gold, or ten thousand lords?"
"Wan Huhou!" The two replied in unison.
"Very good!" Long Gui nodded appreciatively, "The opportunity is in front of you, as long as you seize it, you can honor your ancestors and make your children and grandchildren safe and healthy!"
The two looked at each other and replied together: "I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse for the princess!"
Long Gui asked with a smile: "You always talk together, are you brothers with the same mind?"
"Yes!" The two answered together again, and one of them explained: "We are brothers who were born together. My name is Zhao Dabao, and his name is Zhao Xiaobao. Not only do they look alike, but they even think alike, so when fighting to rely on each other.”
"Interesting! Interesting!" Long Gui laughed, "God helped me too!"
Ziluan also felt that it was a fluke, that the lies she made up were full of loopholes, and she just got away with it like that.Goatee not only stopped pressing Ziluan, but also asked someone to bring her a bowl of broth.
Ziluan was thirsty and hungry, she drank it all in three or five mouthfuls, but the meat was very hard, she swallowed it after chewing for a long time, she couldn't help frowning and asked: "What kind of meat is this?"
"Horse meat." Goatee replied indifferently.
"Ah?" Ziluan almost threw the bowl away in fright, "You killed my horse?!"
"No, that's a fine horse."
Zi Luan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Save it for last."
"..." Ziluan looked suspiciously at the goatee, "Why are you willing to kill horses?"
"No food."
"Then why don't you grow food?"
"There's no one left..." Goatee looked into the distance, and the look on his face that was about to cry without tears made Ziluan feel very sad, but fortunately Goatee continued, "It will be better."
"That's right!" Ziluan became happy, "As long as you work hard, you will definitely get through this difficult time!"
"After you get married, try to have more children, and our Mohe tribe will definitely grow stronger."
"Marry?" Ziluan repeated in a low voice.
"Yes." Goatee pointed to the other three old men in the tent, and explained: "You will marry the four of us tomorrow."
Zi Luan went dumbfounded in surprise.
"I thought you would be unhappy." Goatee said calmly, "As expected of a descendant of Ula, he accepted the arrangement of fate so easily."
"Actually, I..." Ziluan wanted to argue, but no one listened. Emma took her to a small tent. With her "accompaniment", Ziluan followed the tradition of the Mohe tribe to pray for more happiness after marriage. Many children and grandchildren.
Ziluan muttered prayers indiscriminately, her heart was broken: They don't need to believe me, they just need me to be a reproductive tool.
☆, fairy
Early the next morning, Li Si went to find Tian Canzi with a big smile on his face.
"Hurry up and put it on!" Li Si's eyes were full of anticipation, "The princess told me to look for it, it is very suitable for your appearance, it is like a banished fairy!"
Tian Canzi opened the package full of joy, and picked up a big gourd from the top.
"Aren't you joking?" Tian Canzi squinted at Li Si.
"No!" Li Si shook his head, "I said it all, it was the princess' special order!"
The corner of Tian Canzi's mouth twitched, and resigned himself to changing into the clothes in the package. In fact, there were only two pieces, one was a pair of ripped trousers, which only reached his knees;
"Carry this!" Li Si handed the wrapped gourd to Tian Canzi, and said with satisfaction, "Look, how outstanding this appearance is!"
"Don't you think there's something wrong there?" Tian Canzi looked at Li Si helplessly.
"I know, this gourd is a bit bigger." Li Si explained: "But it was given to me by the princess, so you must carry it on your back."
"I mean..." Tian Canzi stretched his open skirt with his hands, "Isn't it wrong for me to wear this in such a cold day?!"
Li Si replied: "The princess said that you are a half-immortal and you are not afraid of the cold."
"I understand..." Tian Canzi nodded, picked up the belt he had untied just now, threw it over the beam, tied a knot, and said loudly: "Scholar can be killed, but not humiliated!"
Li Si hurriedly hugged Tian Canzi's waist, and was almost stunned by the clothes on him, so he let go, stood a little farther away, and persuaded: "God, don't do this, the princess said, if you dare to die , I will take your corpse to pieces and feed it to the dogs, turning you into shit, and you will never be reborn forever.”
"..."
In the end, Tian Canzi put on the clothes and asked Long Gui to have a look. From a distance, he had long hair blown tousled by the strong wind, a flat stomach and a limp, a wooden crutch on his side, and a big gourd on his back. Gourd, no matter how you look at it, is a beggar who is dying; when you look at him closely, his face is full of snot and tears, and he trembles like an evil spirit possessed.
Seeing Tian Canzi's appearance, Long Gui said coldly: "The suit Li Si found is really not bad, you can wear this in a while and go visit Guo Yi with me."
"Ah~" Tian Canzi sneezed indecently, sucked the clear snot that had flowed from his lips, and said, "Princess, I understand what you mean, but I will freeze before I reach Hengcheng." died!"
Long Gui replied leisurely: "It's okay, there is an elixir."
"You're still kidding me!" Tian Canzi angrily picked up the big gourd and shook it vigorously, "Is there an elixir there? Could it be here!"
Then he stood there dumbfounded, because he heard the sound of the elixir shaking and bumping inside the gourd.
Long Gui looked at Tian Canzi coldly, and touched the hilt of his sword with his right hand.
Tian Canzi fell to his knees with a plop, tears came out of pain because he was not wearing the pants with extra thick knees.
"Princess..." Tian Canzi begged with tears in his eyes, "I was wrong... I don't dare to guess what the princess thinks anymore."
Long Gui snorted coldly, "It's good to know."
"Then can I go back?"
"Didn't I say, just dress like this and go to Hengcheng with me. There is a big red pill in the gourd, which can protect your heart and prevent you from freezing to death. There will be a big reward after everything is done."
After a while, Long Gui set off as a whole team. Among the team of about a thousand people, the most conspicuous one was Tian Canzi. He was sitting on a wooden board carried by four people.
The guards were so ashamed that they knelt at Long Gui's feet and begged for punishment.
Long Gui said coldly: "You are negligent in your duties and should have beheaded to show the public. Thinking about this critical period, go to the Pioneer Camp to report, and then fight the enemy bravely and atone for your sins."
The guards bowed their thanks and stepped back.
Long Gui walked out alone, planning to go to the stable to find a horse first, and then go out of the city to find Ziluan.Unexpectedly, Tian Canzi knelt on the ground and firmly grabbed her skirt to prevent her from leaving.
"Princess, think twice!" Tian Canzi pleaded bitterly, "You also know that this is an extraordinary period. Once you leave, who will take charge of the overall situation? When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, you and I will be the sinners of the Dragon Kingdom!"
Long Gui looked down at Tian Canzi, with a rare serious expression on his face.
Long Gui asked coldly: "You did it on purpose?!"
Tian Canzi held on to Long Gui's skirt tightly with both hands, looked into Long Gui's eyes and replied: "Shen Ziluan is an auspicious person, so he will be auspicious if he dies!"
Long Gui reached out and grabbed Tian Canzi by the collar, slowly lifted him up, and said word by word bitterly, "You knew she would be 'killed'?!"
Tian Canzi was so strangled by the collar that he couldn't breathe, his face turned crimson purple, and he stammered, "This subordinate... is wholeheartedly planning... for the princess, and I hope the princess... will come to fruition."
Long Gui tightened his fingers and asked back: "I will fulfill you, who will fulfill me?"
"If you do this...you will harm her..." Tian Canzi said with the last bit of strength.
Long Gui was taken aback for a moment, then let go of his hand, and Tian Canzi fell to the ground like a stone, paralyzed there and coughing endlessly.
Long Gui looked around and found himself in a simple square house, with simple paper lanterns hanging under the corridor, illuminating the thick snow on the corridor handrails.Because the guards from just now had gone to collect their punishment, and the new guards hadn't arrived yet, the yard was empty and covered with snow and sundries, and it looked calm and comfortable in the dark night.
But Long Gui understood that there were countless prying eyes hidden behind this seemingly peaceful place, just like ferocious monsters lurking in the dark, ready to break through the snow and devour anyone at any time.
The newly arrived guard trotted into the yard and saw Long Gui standing alone at the door. Under the leadership of the team leader Li Changhe, he knelt in front of Long Gui and saluted.
"The armor is on, so there is no need to be polite!" Long Gui gently told them to stand up.
Li Changhe opened his mouth and said: "Princess, you are worthy, it is windy and snowy outside, please go back to your room to rest."
Long Gui sighed first, and then said sympathetically, "I still have a roof and four walls to shelter from the wind and snow. I'm sorry for the countless guards and patrolling soldiers outside, who don't have an inch of tile on their heads."
Li Changhe didn't get up, but lowered his head and said loudly: "Princess benevolence!"
The rest of the soldiers also echoed: "Princess benevolence!"
Long Gui asked, "Is there anything to keep out the cold in the warehouse?"
"No!" Li Changhe looked up at Long Gui with a look of resentment on his face, "The court has embezzled supplies year after year, and even the arrows are not fully equipped, let alone something to keep out the cold!"
Long Gui thought for a while and said, "This time I burned the padded clothes sent by the court to resist the enemy, but I still have some furniture, where can I buy these things?"
Li Changhe gritted his teeth, and replied with a tense jaw: "You can't buy it. Here, clothes and food are more precious than gold."
Long Gui tilted his upper body slightly, lowered his voice and asked, "Where is there?"
Li Changhe couldn't help lowering his head under Long Gui's gaze, and replied in a low voice: "I heard that there are some captured Mohe leather clothes in the warehouse of Hengcheng."
Long Gui straightened up and sneered, "Where is Guo Yi? He's really capable."
He kicked Tian Canzi, who was kneeling at his feet with his head down, and asked, "When will the snow stop?"
Tian Canzi quickly replied: "In my humble opinion, although the snow is heavy, it has no power to continue, and it will stop at dawn tomorrow."
The soldiers kneeling on the ground all showed disdain. Here, such heavy snow lasts for more than half a month, and it is common for livestock to freeze to death.
Long Gui saw the contempt in their eyes, but didn't explain anything, just said: "Now the treasury of the Dragon Kingdom is empty, and the ministers donated money to buy those cotton coats. As members of the Dragon Kingdom, we should work together , to overcome difficulties together."
After finishing speaking, seeing that they were still kneeling on the ground, he had no choice but to say: "Please get up quickly, I will go back to the room to rest."
After speaking, he turned and returned to the bedroom.
Seeing Long Gui leaving, Tian Canzi got up and slipped back to his bedroom with one kick high and one low.
All the soldiers also stood up. Although they didn't say anything, they could see the ridicule in each other's eyes.
When Long Gui returned to the room, he didn't take off the cloak immediately. The charcoal basin was lit in the room, and the heat wave hit his face, causing the cold air on the cloak to penetrate through the body, which lifted people's spirits.
"Does caring cause chaos?" Long Gui asked herself standing there motionless, thinking of a little bird she loved when she was young, it was a little sparrow she picked up by accident in the garden, ordinary and young, but she was I like it so much, I insist on putting it on the bedside when I sleep, but the next morning, there are only a few bird feathers and a pool of blood left on the bedside.
From that time on, Long Gui knew that he could not like anything at will, unless he had the ability to protect her well, and from that time on, Long Gui hoped that he could become stronger and one day be able to do whatever he wanted.
Long Gui didn't believe in retribution from ghosts and gods, but he still put his hands together and prayed silently in his heart: May the gods and Buddhas bless Shen Ziluan to return safely, otherwise, I would be too lonely in this dangerous world.
The image of Longgui praying was reflected on the window by the flames. Seeing the silhouette of Longgui on the window, the soldiers also prayed: May the flames of war subside and return to the fields as soon as possible.
☆, conscience
After Ziluan went out of the city, she found a leeward place and evenly applied a layer of dark-colored mud on her face to hide her skin color. Then she changed into the clothes in her package. Then he remembered that he hadn't mentioned to Long Gui that Che Fei was a prince, and he couldn't help being a little annoyed. He wanted to turn back to Gucheng immediately, but when he looked back, Gucheng had become a small dot on the horizon on the vast grassland.
Ziluan weighed it for a while, and felt that since the Mohe tribe's sneak attack had been repelled, the letter was not so important, but could be used to deceive the Mohe people, so she hid the letter next to her body.After changing the clothes, bury the original clothes under a tree, mark the tree, and then continue to go deep into the grassland.
It was as if the god had spilled the ink, and the dark clouds rolled over quickly, and the cold wind suddenly picked up and blew through the thin leather jacket on Ziluan's body. But, like a thousand arrows piercing the heart, at this moment, Ziluan no longer has the heart to think whether the emperor ordered the killing of her parents, and is only looking forward to finding a safe place as soon as possible.
Suddenly, Zi Luan reined in the horse's head fiercely, and listened carefully to the direction of the wind. Sure enough, the woman's painful howling came faintly along with the wind, which sounded heart-piercing, like a ghost appearing in the world.
Ziluan identified the direction of the source of the sound, and searched for it step by step—maybe someone was seriously injured, and he couldn't ignore it.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and a large cloud of snow fell on Ziluan, and he became exhausted even when he was walking on the snow. Ziluan got off the horse in distress, and pulled the rein with the horse to brave the wind and snow. Maybe the snow was falling too hard, and the sound disappeared, but Ziluan firmly believed that what she heard was not a hallucination. Finally, she finally found a dilapidated felt tent that had been half buried in the snow. Her fingers were bruised and purple, but when she stood outside the tent door, she remained polite and asked loudly, "Is anyone there?"
The tent door was opened a small crack, and a pair of cloudy eyes looked at Ziluan warily.
"I... I heard someone shouting for pain." Ziluan couldn't straighten her tongue, and said a Mohe speech with her tongue, but it was more like the tone of a Mohe person.
The eyeballs turned back and forth a few times, looked Zi Luan up and down, and saw a gleam of brilliance when he saw the blood, slowly opened the tent a crack, and let Zi Luan in.
Zi Luan gratefully got into the tent, there was no light in the tent, and there was a bloody smell that made one want to vomit, cold wind and a ray of light came in through the cracks of the tent that had been in disrepair for a long time.
After her eyes got used to the darkness, Zi Luan vaguely saw a person lying in the corner of the tent.
"But someone needs help?" Zi Luan asked.
"Do you know how to deliver babies?" A deep and hoarse voice sounded behind Ziluan.
"This..." Ziluan turned around, and said to her in embarrassment: "Probably yes... you don't mind lighting a candle, do you?"
"I didn't." The voice said coldly.
"It's okay, it's okay, I have it." Ziluan took out a candle stub and lit it, secretly glad that everything in the suit was complete.
Zi Luan couldn't help but be surprised when the candles were in full bloom: In the corner, there was a woman with a huge chubby belly, no pants, her feet were tightly pressed on the thin blanket on the ground.
Ziluan also finally understood why the voice she heard was intermittent, because the woman had a big ball of clothes stuffed into her mouth and her hands and feet were tied tightly.
"Are you alright?" Ziluan approached the woman holding the candle.
It's a pity that the woman has passed out and cannot answer.Seeing that the situation was urgent, Ziluan turned her head and asked, "If this continues, she will die. May I give her a few needles?"
By the light of the candle, Zi Luan saw that the person was a short and thin old woman, her back was bent by the hardships of life, the wrinkles on her face were like the dry and cracked earth, and the clothes on her body were shabby, only strands of clothes were hanging. Seeing Ziluan asking her, she pretended not to hear her, and responded, "Do you want to protect your horse from the wind and snow?"
"..." Ziluan nodded, and after the old woman went out with the blanket, she took out the silver needle, burned it on the candle, stabbed the acupuncture point on the woman's body, and then twisted it slowly.
The silver needle touched the acupoint, and the woman woke up leisurely, and then broke out in a cold sweat in pain, the hair from her temples stuck to her face, and there was a whining sound from her mouth.
Ziluan said apologetically: "I don't know how to deliver babies either. In the past, when my stomach hurts, others would rub it for me. How about I rub it for you too?"
After finishing speaking, he gently rubbed the woman's towering belly and pushed down in the direction.
Every time the woman was about to faint in pain, Ziluan twisted the silver needle to keep her awake, and finally, the meat ball slowly descended and squeezed out of the mother's body.
Facing the little thing that was still steaming, Zi Luan was at a loss, so she had to pull out the sackcloth from the woman's mouth, and while helping her untie the ropes on her hands and feet, she asked, "Do you know how to do it?"
The woman nodded, and as soon as her hands were able to move freely, she hurriedly reached out to reach her child, wiped it with a rag, and cut the umbilical cord with a sharp stone. Finally, the child let out a cat-like cry, and the woman With a gratified smile on his face, he unbuttoned his clothes and hugged the child close to the flesh.
Ziluan also breathed a sigh of relief, and only after he relaxed did he realize that he was tired and cold, so he leaned against a corner of the tent to rest.
The old woman got into the tent and saw that the woman had already sat up, so she asked, "Emma, is it a man or a woman?"
Emma lowered her head and replied, "It's a girl."
"Great God blessed the birth of a girl." The old woman put her hands together and murmured thanks.
Ziluan wondered: "Aren't boys better?"
"What do you know?" The old woman glared at Ziluan, and reprimanded: "It is enough for one man to be able to sow seeds, and more women are needed to have more children and more warriors. Kill all the people!"
Ziluan was speechless, rubbed her face vigorously, thought for a while and said: "This is too unfair to women."
"Ke Keke." The old lady laughed a few times, "Fair? How can the people of Longguo understand our hardships? As long as we can survive, we will be fine. How dare we ask for 'fairness'!"
The words were not speculative, Ziluan simply ignored her, closed her eyes and fell asleep, and felt a figure floating in front of her eyes, and then a pair of hands like chicken feet grabbed her wrists, opened her eyes and found the old woman sitting beside her , pressed his wrist hard.
"Speak up if you have something to say." Ziluan said anxiously, "You let go first."
However, the old woman grabbed her even tighter. Emma Cui Chi: "Hurry up! Hurry up and tie her up, don't let her run away!"
Emma rushed forward as swiftly as a monkey, and tied Ziluan tightly with the cloth strip Ziluan untied just now.
"Hey!" Ziluan felt her heart was broken, and asked in confusion, "Why tie me up? I can't have children."
☆, lie
"Ke Keke." The old woman let out that strange laugh again, "What an idiot! Your strange accent has already revealed your identity, you are a spy from the Dragon Kingdom!"
"I... I'm just frozen and my tongue isn't flexible!"
The old woman raised her chicken paw-like hand and scratched Ziluan's face fiercely. Fortunately, the mud on Ziluan's face was thick, and she only scratched the mud covered with nails.
"And your face is exactly the same as that bastard daughter of mine!" Uta curled her thin fingers together into fists, held them up to Ziluan's eyes, and said angrily, "The people of Longguo took away all the men in my family!" , but left me a bastard!"
The old woman shook her hands and looked up at the sky. She seemed to be scolding and asked back: "How can I, Wuta, have a bastard daughter? It must be sent by the Great God to punish the people of the Dragon Kingdom. It must be..."
Suddenly pointing at Ziluan's face, almost poking her in the eye, he said sharply, "Don't tell me you are Wula's daughter, you came here to find us!"
"Wula?" Zi Luan was quick to wit, and blurted out, "It was Wula who asked me to come!"
"Ke Keke!" Uta's face twisted, "Didn't she climb to the top of the Dragon Kingdom? Why do you want us!"
"No no no!" Ziluan quickly denied, "She misses you very much and looks forward to coming back every day!"
Uta looked at Ziluan suspiciously, "I used to beat her every day and make her work so hard that she would die, but she wants to come back? Impossible, she must hate me to death."
"...you are her mother." Ziluan looked at Uta with pity, "How could she hate you?"
Uta shook her head again and again, took a step back, and refused to believe it, "Impossible, she is just a bastard sent by the Great God to pay off the debts of the people of the Dragon Kingdom..."
Emma sat on the ground as if she had exhausted all her strength. Seeing that Uta was unable to make a decision, she suggested wearily, "Send her to the patriarch and let the wise people judge."
Uta nodded, and pulled Ziluan out of the tent.The blizzard that had been raging all night unexpectedly stopped, the sky was as blue as washing, but the wind cut his face like a knife.
Emma put on all the clothes she could wear, carefully put away the tent, and put it on Tread's back.
Seeing her stumbling with the baby in her arms, Ziluan couldn't bear it, and persuaded: "You just gave birth, you should take a rest."
Uta tugged hard on the rope, almost knocking Ziluan to the ground, "Don't pretend to be merciful, you just want to take the opportunity to escape!"
Ziluan struggled to maintain her balance in the snow, and asked, "How can you treat her like this? Aren't you a woman? Haven't you ever given birth to a child?"
Uta forcefully pushed Ziluan into the snow, "I have given birth to fifteen children, but only that bastard Ula survived. Yes, I didn't kill her, it's too cheap for her to die!"
Ziluan fell into the snow, because her hands were bound, she couldn't struggle for a while, she turned to look at Uta angrily, and felt that she was incompatible with this pure white world, like a sinister witch standing in the bright sunshine .
"How could there be such a person..." Zi Luan sighed in disbelief, the hot air that he exhaled moistened the loose hair on his forehead, and soon frost formed.
Finally Emma finished packing her things, stepped forward to pull Ziluan up, and whispered in her ear: "Don't pay attention to that old thing, she just loves to chatter."
Ziluan's heart warmed, and Emma continued: "What nonsense is there with you, a spy, the patriarch will cut you to pieces immediately!"
After finishing speaking, he hung a pile of pots and salt on Ziluan's back, and drove Ziluan forward with a wooden stick.
The three trekked hard in the snow. Ziluan was inexperienced and fell into snow pits from time to time. Emma didn't pull her, but used a wooden stick to stimulate her potential.
In this way, the three stopped and walked, following the hidden signs left by the migration of the Mohe tribe, until the evening to find a few larger camps.
Emma unloaded Ziluan's load and pushed her into a tent. Ziluan lay down on the ground, so tired that she just wanted to pass out.
"You crazy woman, who did you quarrel with this time?" An old voice asked, Ziluan peeked and saw an old man with a goatee, standing or standing with three other old men.
"She is a spy of the Dragon Kingdom!" Wuta said in a shrill voice.
"Just kill it, what are you doing here? Don't attract people from the Dragon Kingdom." Goatee said impatiently.
Wuta was speechless, turned around and kicked Ziluan hard, and asked, "Didn't you say you were born by that bastard Ula?"
"..." Ziluan raised her head with difficulty and looked at Wuta, "When did I say that? I just said that Wula asked me to send a letter."
"You weren't born by her, why send her a letter?!" Uta kicked Ziluan non-stop.
Ziluan didn't want to explain to her anymore, anyway, she couldn't feel the pain in her frozen limbs, so she simply closed her eyes and ignored her.
"Get out of the way, you crazy woman!" Someone stepped forward and pulled Uta away, "Did you send her here just to beat her in front of us?"
"They should all be damned! These bastards from the Dragon Kingdom should all be damned!" Uta struggled and roared, and soon the voice came out of the tent, as if being dragged away.
"Who are you?" Goatee asked Ziluan coldly.
Before Ziluan could answer, Uta struggled desperately to get back to the tent like crazy, and asked loudly, "Is his horse mine?"
The goatee glared at Uta, and said slowly, "That depends on what kind of news she brings us."
Uta kicked Ziluan again in disappointment, and cursed: "Damn bastard, I really regret not killing you directly!"
Seeing the goatee glaring at her sullenly, he left the tent muttering.
Emma squatted quietly in a corner of the tent, staring at Ziluan.
Ziluan was thinking about how to tell a big lie, the old man urged: "Who are you?"
"Wula couldn't wait for the news, so she sent me to meet Bazagan!" Ziluan said.
"Then why did you come here?" The old man frowned.
"I... I'm lost." Ziluan started talking nonsense.
Because this kind of argument is too unconvincing, the old man asked back: "Lost?"
"Yeah!" Ziluan continued to make up, "It was a war at the time, and it was too chaotic. I was in a hurry to send a letter to Ula, but I ran in the wrong direction."
"War?" The goatee bent down and grabbed Ziluan's arm, and asked excitedly, "But the wolf king won?"
"I... I don't know, it was a mess at the time." Ziluan felt a little guilty when she thought of the fake head of the wolf king she had made.
Goatee let out a long sigh of disappointment.
"Wait." The other old man closed his eyes, looking unfathomable, "Do you have proof?"
"I have faith!" Ziluan said confidently.
The old man opened his eyes towards Ziluan, revealing two pale and chaotic eyes, and Ziluan let out a short scream as if being pricked by a needle - he turned out to be blind.
The old man looked as usual, followed the voice to Ziluan, reached out his hand to find the letter from Bazagan from her bosom, and handed it to Goatee.
Goatee opened it and took a look, then nodded and said, "It's the letter written by the Wolf King. It's a pity that it wasn't sent to Ula. It's useless now."
After speaking, throw the letter into the charcoal basin and burn it.
Ziluan was unavoidably surprised, only the royal family members of the Mohe family had the opportunity to learn characters, but this goatee was not dressed like a royal family member.
"Girl, you have been wronged." The blind man stretched out his hand to help Ziluan up.
Ziluan blushed and realized that her disguise was useless to a blind person.
"You are actually a woman?" Emma stepped forward to untie the rope that bound Zi Luan in surprise, "Looking at your clothes, I thought you were a barbarian."
"Barbarian?" Ziluan repeated in confusion.
"It's the barbarians from over there who always plunder our livestock and women." Emma pointed in one direction, and Ziluan guessed that it was deeper in the grassland. She looked down at her "Mohe tribe" clothing, I can't see any difference at all.
"Why are you dressed like this?" Emma asked.
"I wanted to join the war, but I couldn't find a suitable costume for a while." Ziluan couldn't make it up anymore, as expected, a lie needs a hundred lies to explain.
Emma looked at Ziluan with piercing eyes, "If I hadn't given birth, I would have joined the war!"
"Yes, yes." Ziluan echoed casually, "Who doesn't want to go to war?"
The author has something to say: Little angels, can you remember those messy names?
I can't even remember it myself. (tears streaming down my face)
☆, planning
After Long Gui got up early, he opened the window calmly but anxiously, and he was relieved when he saw the clear blue sky, and asked someone to call Tian Canzi.
When Tian Canzi arrived, Long Gui was sharpening his sword with a whetstone. The rough whetstone passed across the sword, making a grinding sound that made people's teeth grind.
Tian Canzi shrugged and stood aside cautiously, "Princess, what can you do with me?"
"It's nothing serious, it's just that I've raised you for so long, and I want you to do me a favor."
"Hey..." Tian Canzi subconsciously tried to find an excuse to refuse.
Long Gui put down the whetstone, flicked on the sword with his fingers, and the sword trembled and let out a mournful hum.
"You disagree?" Long Gui looked at Tian Canzi with a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"No, no, no!" Tian Canzi frightened the good leg weak, and the disabled leg was short, expressing his heart again and again, "I was born as a princess, and died as a ghost of the princess, what did the princess want me to do? Just do whatever, absolutely no nonsense!"
"Shameless!" Long Gui scolded with a smile, "It's also an advantage."
Carefully insert the sword back into the sheath, there is no female sword, the scabbard is slightly larger.
Long Gui smiled and said to Tian Canzi: "It's nothing serious, but seeing you have been with me for so long and your clothes are still so tacky, I can't bear it anymore, I want you to find a set of tasteful clothes to change into."
Tian Canzi said cheekily: "I don't have much spare money on me, so please give me some clothes, princess."
Long Gui said helplessly: "You, you are really stingy. Since you have made such a request, don't pick and choose, saying that the clothes I prepared for you are too fresh and refined!"
Tian Canzi said "I dare not", and kowtowed again and again to thank him.
Long Gui asked seemingly casually: "Guo Yi is a nice person, what do you think?"
"This person has a traitor in the back of his head!" Tian Canzi said seriously, "I have a person here who can testify that the sudden appearance of the Mohe tribe's army is inseparable from him!"
Long Gui sighed sadly, with an expression of seeing a righteous hero stealing steamed buns, he asked incredulously, "How did this happen?"
Tian Canzi quickly retreated and brought Li Si back.
Seeing Long Gui, Li Si immediately bowed on the ground, "See the princess."
"People from the capital know the rules." Long Gui said softly, "Please get up and tell me what's going on."
Li Si recalled the situation when he met Guo Yi at that time, and said: "That day I said that I was a subordinate of the old general Fengtongling, and he would kill me without asking a word. Lie to him, and we will have a chance to escape."
"Hundred years old?" Long Gui really felt unbelievable, "She can lie to people?"
"Yes, and he also knows the characters of the Mohe people. He found a letter from the Mohe people, saying that someone who died is the eldest prince."
"What?" Long Gui's face changed drastically in shock, "You said the eldest prince is dead?"
Li Si nodded, "That's what he said. Not long after we left Hengcheng, soldiers from the Mohe clan appeared behind us."
Long Gui put his hands behind his back, turned his back to the two and fell into deep thought.
Both Tian Canzi and Li Siju silently looked at Long Gui's back, waiting for her decision.
"This person can't be kept." After a while, Long Gui said firmly, "I can return to the capital with peace of mind after he is dealt with."
Tian Canzi hurriedly shouted: "Princess is wise and mighty, peerless!"
The loud voice startled Li Si, and he wanted to shout, but felt embarrassed.
The princess nodded very helpfully, then turned to Li Si and asked, "Talk about the hundred-year-old thing again."
"He also made a fake head of the wolf king, and asked me to take it with me. If I have a chance, I will take it out and use it as a real one."
"She's really smart." Long Gui smiled softly.
"Yes, Bai Sui is smart and brave. I was useless. I was found when I set the fire, so I had to flee on horseback. On the way, I lost the head. Fortunately, the princess was brave and killed the real wolf king."
Long Gui laughed loudly without any explanation—what a beautiful misunderstanding!
Thinking of the promise made that day, he asked Tian Canzi: "Are there any people who drove the carriage that day survived?"
Tian Canzi replied: "Princess Tianyou, two people survived and killed over a hundred enemies!"
Long Gui smiled and said: "It's time to fulfill the promise." He asked Tian Canzi to call those two people over.
Li Si also wanted to leave, Long Gui said softly, "You have contributed a lot to this victory, if you hadn't made the enemy take it lightly, we wouldn't have won so easily, so don't belittle yourself, in your position, Seek his own government and continue to serve the country."
Hearing Long Gui's words of encouragement, Li Si was moved to tears. Ever since he woke up, he had been living in the eyes of ridicule and sympathy from others. Until today, he found the meaning of living again.
Li Si choked up and said: "I am willing to go through fire and water for the princess, no matter what!"
"That's right!" Long Gui ordered a few words and asked Li Si to go back and prepare.
Soon, two brave and lucky people came to see Long Gui. Long Gui smiled and asked, "You are excellent fighters, facing the crisis of the country, now I ask you, do you want a thousand taels of gold, or ten thousand lords?"
"Wan Huhou!" The two replied in unison.
"Very good!" Long Gui nodded appreciatively, "The opportunity is in front of you, as long as you seize it, you can honor your ancestors and make your children and grandchildren safe and healthy!"
The two looked at each other and replied together: "I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse for the princess!"
Long Gui asked with a smile: "You always talk together, are you brothers with the same mind?"
"Yes!" The two answered together again, and one of them explained: "We are brothers who were born together. My name is Zhao Dabao, and his name is Zhao Xiaobao. Not only do they look alike, but they even think alike, so when fighting to rely on each other.”
"Interesting! Interesting!" Long Gui laughed, "God helped me too!"
Ziluan also felt that it was a fluke, that the lies she made up were full of loopholes, and she just got away with it like that.Goatee not only stopped pressing Ziluan, but also asked someone to bring her a bowl of broth.
Ziluan was thirsty and hungry, she drank it all in three or five mouthfuls, but the meat was very hard, she swallowed it after chewing for a long time, she couldn't help frowning and asked: "What kind of meat is this?"
"Horse meat." Goatee replied indifferently.
"Ah?" Ziluan almost threw the bowl away in fright, "You killed my horse?!"
"No, that's a fine horse."
Zi Luan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Save it for last."
"..." Ziluan looked suspiciously at the goatee, "Why are you willing to kill horses?"
"No food."
"Then why don't you grow food?"
"There's no one left..." Goatee looked into the distance, and the look on his face that was about to cry without tears made Ziluan feel very sad, but fortunately Goatee continued, "It will be better."
"That's right!" Ziluan became happy, "As long as you work hard, you will definitely get through this difficult time!"
"After you get married, try to have more children, and our Mohe tribe will definitely grow stronger."
"Marry?" Ziluan repeated in a low voice.
"Yes." Goatee pointed to the other three old men in the tent, and explained: "You will marry the four of us tomorrow."
Zi Luan went dumbfounded in surprise.
"I thought you would be unhappy." Goatee said calmly, "As expected of a descendant of Ula, he accepted the arrangement of fate so easily."
"Actually, I..." Ziluan wanted to argue, but no one listened. Emma took her to a small tent. With her "accompaniment", Ziluan followed the tradition of the Mohe tribe to pray for more happiness after marriage. Many children and grandchildren.
Ziluan muttered prayers indiscriminately, her heart was broken: They don't need to believe me, they just need me to be a reproductive tool.
☆, fairy
Early the next morning, Li Si went to find Tian Canzi with a big smile on his face.
"Hurry up and put it on!" Li Si's eyes were full of anticipation, "The princess told me to look for it, it is very suitable for your appearance, it is like a banished fairy!"
Tian Canzi opened the package full of joy, and picked up a big gourd from the top.
"Aren't you joking?" Tian Canzi squinted at Li Si.
"No!" Li Si shook his head, "I said it all, it was the princess' special order!"
The corner of Tian Canzi's mouth twitched, and resigned himself to changing into the clothes in the package. In fact, there were only two pieces, one was a pair of ripped trousers, which only reached his knees;
"Carry this!" Li Si handed the wrapped gourd to Tian Canzi, and said with satisfaction, "Look, how outstanding this appearance is!"
"Don't you think there's something wrong there?" Tian Canzi looked at Li Si helplessly.
"I know, this gourd is a bit bigger." Li Si explained: "But it was given to me by the princess, so you must carry it on your back."
"I mean..." Tian Canzi stretched his open skirt with his hands, "Isn't it wrong for me to wear this in such a cold day?!"
Li Si replied: "The princess said that you are a half-immortal and you are not afraid of the cold."
"I understand..." Tian Canzi nodded, picked up the belt he had untied just now, threw it over the beam, tied a knot, and said loudly: "Scholar can be killed, but not humiliated!"
Li Si hurriedly hugged Tian Canzi's waist, and was almost stunned by the clothes on him, so he let go, stood a little farther away, and persuaded: "God, don't do this, the princess said, if you dare to die , I will take your corpse to pieces and feed it to the dogs, turning you into shit, and you will never be reborn forever.”
"..."
In the end, Tian Canzi put on the clothes and asked Long Gui to have a look. From a distance, he had long hair blown tousled by the strong wind, a flat stomach and a limp, a wooden crutch on his side, and a big gourd on his back. Gourd, no matter how you look at it, is a beggar who is dying; when you look at him closely, his face is full of snot and tears, and he trembles like an evil spirit possessed.
Seeing Tian Canzi's appearance, Long Gui said coldly: "The suit Li Si found is really not bad, you can wear this in a while and go visit Guo Yi with me."
"Ah~" Tian Canzi sneezed indecently, sucked the clear snot that had flowed from his lips, and said, "Princess, I understand what you mean, but I will freeze before I reach Hengcheng." died!"
Long Gui replied leisurely: "It's okay, there is an elixir."
"You're still kidding me!" Tian Canzi angrily picked up the big gourd and shook it vigorously, "Is there an elixir there? Could it be here!"
Then he stood there dumbfounded, because he heard the sound of the elixir shaking and bumping inside the gourd.
Long Gui looked at Tian Canzi coldly, and touched the hilt of his sword with his right hand.
Tian Canzi fell to his knees with a plop, tears came out of pain because he was not wearing the pants with extra thick knees.
"Princess..." Tian Canzi begged with tears in his eyes, "I was wrong... I don't dare to guess what the princess thinks anymore."
Long Gui snorted coldly, "It's good to know."
"Then can I go back?"
"Didn't I say, just dress like this and go to Hengcheng with me. There is a big red pill in the gourd, which can protect your heart and prevent you from freezing to death. There will be a big reward after everything is done."
After a while, Long Gui set off as a whole team. Among the team of about a thousand people, the most conspicuous one was Tian Canzi. He was sitting on a wooden board carried by four people.
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