Chapter 21: The Golden Cicada
"Helan Yue, it's you. ”
Helan Yue turned around in surprise when she saw me, squinted her eyes and looked at me, shaking the folding fan and whispering: "Beauty out of the bath, warm nephrite." If the princess doesn't make up again, isn't she afraid that she will miss the hour?"
"Helan Yue, what medicine did you give me?"
Who knew that he raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically: "Is it so much like a subordinate in the next three people? The princess will know that you and I are in the same boat." ”
I sneered, "You killed all the maids in Jinyun Mansion?"
Helan Yue shook his head, calmly.
"The prince is so unshy about going on this trip, but what do you have to explain in advance?" I reached out and took the clothes on the shelf on the side and put them on my body, and asked, "Is the Khan here this time?"
"When the Khan heard that the most noble princess of Shangde Da Zhou had come to marry her, she came to marry her in person. The queen mother also warned the king to protect the Khan and the princess all the way. ”
I looked at him steadily, not letting go of a look on my face. Helan Yue was immersed in the joy of victory in sight, and couldn't help but become a little arrogant in his tone: "The princess got married, and her husband died in the ambush of the Great Zhou before I passed the Turkic Gate, and that imperial brother of yours really had a good plan! Princess rest assured, as long as I am proclaimed as a khan, the Turks and the Great Zhou should be cultivated for a hundred years......" As he spoke, he looked at me with a little more ambiguous, "Of course, the Turkic queen lost her father and married a new khan from now on, I don't know if the princess is willing or not?"
"Don't think about it!" I said with a different face, "I agreed to make peace, but it's just because you threatened Liangzhou! I will help you, if you get an inch because of this, you don't take my Da Zhou in your eyes!"
"Whoa—"
As soon as I finished speaking, a long arrow pierced through the window and shot straight in, and the sharp arrow grazed Helan Yue's temple and nailed to the screen behind me. The white feather silver arrow is as familiar as a ghost.
Helan Yue looked out of the window with palpitations, closed the folding fan, and said to me: "If this is the case, this king will no longer embarrass the princess." ”
I nodded lightly and said, "I am a person who keeps my promises, and the prince will take care of me." With that, he turned away. Not long after Helan Yue left, Jinglan walked in with a set of red wedding dresses, her expression was unprecedentedly dignified, "Princess, the slave is waiting for you to change your clothes." ”
The court clothes are luan, and the five phoenixes are rising. I reached out and stroked the exquisite embroidered feet on the wedding dress, and the slightest thread was cold to the touch. The history of the ceremonial women who came with me has been all killed, I did not alarm the Youzhou Mansion to find another wife for me, and I put on this gorgeous wedding dress with my own hands, but not for the person I love, and my heart suddenly had mixed feelings.
Jinglan raised her hair in a bun for me, the pearl phoenix crown was dazzling, and the left and right peonies were hanging down. My eyebrows are even, my forehead is cinnabar, and my thin body is wrapped in seven complicated gauze clothes, standing in front of the mirror, like a strange woman.
"Princess, the slave has combed your hair for so long, and for the first time today, she has raised them high. People say that marriage is the most beautiful time for a woman, princess, look, are you happy with this appearance?"
I smiled lightly and said, "Naturally, it's joy." This sentence was on his lips, but it was a little more bitter.
"Princess Zhaoyuan drives-"
Outside Princess Jinyun's mansion, the Turkic envoys had been waiting for a long time. Hu Cong is like a cloud, the guard of honor is magnificent, Helan Yue on the front of the high straddle horse bows his head to me, I bow my head slightly, and I am supported by several maids and slowly get on the Panlong gold-topped warm sedan chair in the middle of the queue.
The Turks are nomadic people who walk in the desert, laying down the country on horseback, boldly plagiarizing, and marrying relatives is also the custom of the bride and groom riding together. After the eldest princess of Chengyang reconciled, the wind of Turkic sinicization rose, and the identity and honor of my princess were remembered, so the welcoming team changed to Han rites.
Two pairs of jade hands lifted the low-hanging curtain for me, and in the sedan chair covered by the canopy, a little doll like a pink ball held a little white cat and leaned on the pillow, sleeping soundly with her eyes closed.
I looked at the maid in disbelief, and they both smiled, closed the curtain for me, and left silently.
I looked at the boy in front of me, who was only nine or ten years old, with a somewhat complicated expression, and if I hadn't seen his small body swollen with a wide thorn gold suit, I would not have believed that he was the Turkic Khan, my half-brother.
I was looking at it vigorously, but he suddenly opened his eyes, "Why do you keep staring at the lonely king?"
I was stunned for a moment, and then smiled dryly: "This cat in your arms looks very cute." ”
He was also stunned after hearing this, and looked at the white cat with round eyes in his arms with some complicated and frustration, raised his head and said to me firmly: "Ah Yan is not a cat, she is a white tiger." ”
"Tiger?" I looked at him with some confusion, "This tiger's name is 'Ah Rou'?" White Tiger heard that I was calling her name, and stared at me, as if sensing the doubt in my words, and his expression was a little hostile.
"Hmm. He nodded, "The name the Queen Mother gave her." ”
I smiled and asked him, "And what's your name?"
"He Lanyan. He threatened, "The queen mother calls the lonely king Ah Tuan, although you want to marry the lonely king, but the lonely king does not allow you to call the lonely king like this." Although you look a lot like the queen mother. ”
I was amused by him for no reason, looking at his little face and still flushing when I woke up, I felt cute and tight in my heart, and I couldn't help but reach out and pull his cheek. Ah Tuan was first shocked by my actions, and then his face became more and more red, and Ah Tuan in his arms looked at me in surprise.
I chuckled and asked, "Are you unwilling to marry me?" or do you dislike me because I was born ugly?"
Ah Tuan pouted: "You Central Plains people killed the lonely brother of the lonely king, the ministers can't swallow this breath, if it weren't for Helan Yue proposing to let you and kiss, your Central Plains would be waiting for the Turkic army!"
I listened to his childlike innocent words, and feigned injury: "So you really don't like me." ”
"There are so many women in the lone queen's harem, and you are not one of them. Helan Yue has a good eye, and every time he finds a beautiful woman for the lonely king, but the lonely king is not rare. If you don't look like the queen mother, the son of the lonely king won't even want to talk to you. ”
I sighed and said, "At a young age, I know the things of men and women, and how good it is to grow up." ”
Ah Tuan's round eyes widened in surprise and asked, "How do you say the same words as the queen mother?"
I looked at the rumored Turkic Khan in front of me, who was clearly still a young boy who had not been deeply involved in the world, but he was involved in the struggle for power between his brothers early. "Your mother is protecting you, and the affairs of men and women are civilized early, and it will be very dangerous to fall into them. ”
Ah Tuan actually sneered: "No matter how dangerous it is between men and women, they can't fight against brothers." Do you think King Gu doesn't know, what is Helan Yue, who is walking in the forefront, has in his heart?"
"If you didn't know, you wouldn't have been a Turkic khan for so many years. Ah Tuan, although I can't marry you, will you believe me once?"
As soon as the words fell, the sedan chair suddenly stopped. Ah Tuan glanced at me, hugged Ah Yan in his arms, and subconsciously leaned towards me.
"There are assassins, protect the khan and the princess!" Helan Yue shouted outside the sedan chair, causing the convoy to panic instantly. I patted Tuan's hand as a sign of comfort.
"Boom-" There was a loud bang, the sedan chair began to shake violently, and at this moment, a black shadow jumped in from the window, and I fixed my eyes to see that it was Changsheng-"Don't be afraid, princess, come with me! I came to Liangzhou Shence Army by order to encircle and suppress outside! The general ordered me to come to protect your safety, princess, please take advantage of the chaos and leave with me!"
"It's actually a divine strategy?" I was surprised, "This matter is just a fulfillment of Helan Yue, why use divine strategy?"
Changsheng: "The princess and the princess, the general is worried. This encirclement and suppression only used Liangzhou Shence troops, and the rest were Helan Yue's subordinates!"
Ah Tuan glared at me angrily, his face puffed up with anger, "The people of the Central Plains really don't have a good thing! That Yuwen Qi colluded with Helan Yue early in the morning, and the Lone King is clear! You want to kill the Lone King, it's not that easy!"
I grabbed Ah Tuan's arm with a fierce spirit, "What are you talking about?" Helan Yue and Yuwen Qi secretly colluded with each other?" I looked at him incredulously, no matter how I could get involved with him. But my mind suddenly flashed Helan Yue handed me the bamboo slip that day, and the joy that I hadn't seen for a long time overflowed my heart, but I forgot to study the bamboo slip Helan Yue in detail.
Helan lost his life...... Helan Yue slaughtered the city and threatened me and my relatives...... Shence "ordered" to encircle and suppress the Turkic Khan Helan Yan...... Whose calculation is all this?
The sound of fighting outside the car came, and the sound of the sound of the drums continued, "Princess! The general will definitely give you an explanation for these things in the future, you can leave with me quickly!" Changsheng was stunned when he saw that I heard Ah Tuan's words, and his situation was critical, so he couldn't help but pull me away. I looked back and saw that the little white tiger that had been quiet suddenly jumped up, opened its sharp teeth and bit my right wrist.
A bright red flower bloomed on the white wrist, I frowned in pain, Changsheng was startled at first when he saw this, and immediately pulled out the long sword at his waist. "Impermanence!" I covered my wound and hurriedly stopped him, "Take him, let's go!"
Immortality is embarrassed: "But the princess ......"
"If it weren't for me, he'd die!" I snapped, grimacing, "He's just a kid!"
Seeing this, Changsheng reluctantly went to hug him, Ah Tuan resisted, Changsheng pretended to be fierce to scare him, stretched out his hand and resisted him on his shoulder. Outside the sedan chair, there was a scuffle, and arrows flew everywhere. I stooped over and carefully avoided it, my steps trembling. "Princess, be careful! There's a flint under your feet!" I didn't take a single step, and Changsheng suddenly shouted, "Princess, follow me closely, this sedan chair is full of explosives!"
Changsheng's words frightened me, I stopped in the air with one foot but didn't dare to fall, Ah Tuan lay on Changsheng's back and looked at me with a mocking face: "These are all for them to come and blow up the Lone King, if you want to be kind, then die with the Lone King!"