Chapter I
I am Han Mi, a former Korean princess, when I was fifteen years old, I left the territory of Korea with the envoy and came to Jicheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom, and began my life as a proton, and I never set foot on my homeland again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs I get older, my homeland and I have become a bright moon outside the window - far away in the sky.
When I arrived in Jicheng, the first thing I did was to follow the envoys into the palace to meet the king and queen.
Looking at the envoy kneeling at his feet, the king was glad that he had not long ago captured three cities on our Korean border.
The soldiers sent by my father could not resist the attack of the Yan Kingdom, so they had to send people to negotiate peace. King Yan obtained the three cities on the border and made a request to send protons.
My father only has me and Xue'er's two daughters, compared to Han Xue, who is just seven years old, I am undoubtedly the most suitable person, so I became a proton without any suspense.
After bidding farewell to the crying dead and resurrected mother, I took the grandmother and maidservant who served with me, and followed the envoys who met the court, and I went on my way......
The queen of Yan is my aunt, she is my father's sister, she married into Yan many years ago, I have never seen her, but I keep hearing my father and the people in the palace mention that I look very much like this aunt.
But after the long journey, my face was pale and emaciated, like a dried cabbage, and no one could see any resemblance between me and the queen with the cheeks in front of me.
The king and the envoys were talking one by one, the queen had already held me in her arms, and asked me carefully about the journey with red eyes, I spent most of my time in the car and vomited in the dark, where could I answer her question, I could only cope with two sentences, the queen sighed and stopped talking, two tears fell silently on my neck, I stood there stiff, and my heart was at a loss......
The wine and delicacies on the Hanyuan Hall were continuously presented, the beauties like flowers and jade danced, the sound of silk and bamboo was endless, and a wave of boredom came to my heart, I looked up and looked around, and saw that no one noticed me, so I stood up and quietly walked out of the hall along the wall.
I have been here for more than a month, and the queen has kept me in her palace, and although there is no shortage of food and clothing, my heart is sad, and I miss my mother, who looks a little stern but kisses me gently when I am asleep, and I miss my father, who always pampered me in his arms, and my sister, who babbles softly.
I used to like to participate in the palace banquet, every time my mother dressed me up beautifully, I wore beautiful clothes, led the same beautiful sister, and the father and queen mother sat around a table, eating delicious food, watching the beauty of the dance, at that time my heart was warm, every day is smiling, but now I come to this foreign country alone, even if the delicious food, no matter how wonderful the song and dance, for me the taste of the same wax.
Two months ago, the prince and a group of brothers went to the royal tomb for King Yan to worship their ancestors, today is the banquet set up by King Yan for the prince brothers who returned from going out......
There was a sound of footsteps in the distance behind me, I suddenly came back to my senses, at this time I didn't want to see anyone, I looked down and wiped the tears that I didn't know when, and looked around, I was standing on a path at this time, on both sides were craggy rockery, without thinking I dodged into the rockery, along the mountain path to the depths of the rockery.
Finally I couldn't hear the sound outside, and I stopped in front of a hole, knowing that it was because my coat was caught in the vines that were hiding on the surface of the hole, and when I leaned over to untie my coat, I found the hole behind the vines.
When I saw the entrance of the cave, I couldn't help but open my mouth wide and look at the man in front of me in surprise, he stared at me with a pair of dark eyes, two dark and thick eyebrows slightly furrowed, pouted in disgust, and looked at me without saying a word.
I saw him at the banquet just now, he is Liu Mao, the crown prince of Liang State, the same proton as me. He was leaning on a stone at the moment, holding his hands on his chest, holding a straw stick in his mouth, only looking at me quietly, I felt that his gaze was very sharp, looking at me like a thorn in the back, my gaze left his cheek, looking at the cave in front of me, strictly speaking, it was a gap surrounded by several boulders, the small one could only accommodate two people standing side by side, the stone wall was covered with moss, and there was a faint light shining down from the gap in the stone, the light was a little dim, and it diverged into a circle of blurred light behind him......
A pair of strong hands dragged me into the cave, holding me in his arms, and soon the vines in front of me hung down to block my vision, I was taken aback, and was about to shout, but my mouth was tightly covered by a hand, I raised my foot and kicked it, and it was kicking his calf, I heard him snort in pain, and then I was pressed tightly against the stone wall, and I couldn't move anymore, I tensed my body, my heart was anxious and angry, and tears couldn't help but fall.
Just when I was about to faint, I heard a sound of footsteps outside the cave, followed by a sound of talking, and I suddenly realized that I had not noticed anyone approaching in a daze just now, thinking that he did not want to be discovered, so he pulled me in.
I was relieved, my body couldn't help but soften, he looked down at me, I obediently stood still, no longer struggling, he hesitated, the hand covering my mouth loosened slightly, seeing that I honestly didn't say a word, he took his hand away from my mouth, I gasped fiercely.
He put his arms around me, and I looked up at him, and the hole was silent, and all I could hear was the sound of our breathing.
The people outside the cave got closer and closer, and actually stopped at the entrance of the cave to talk, I lowered my head and held my breath, lest I be discovered by the people outside, the young man around me was full of muscles, hugged my arms and tightened, I was a little painful, and I didn't dare to make a sound, so I had to endure silently.
I calmed down and could clearly hear a man and a woman talking outside the cave, and I heard the man say, "Jump into the pool with him in your arms and press him under the water, and he will die in a short time." "I...... I'm afraid ......," the woman muttered, "my people will be watching from the side, don't worry!" You can't die. After a pause, he heard the man say, "You are about to leave here, I will give you five hundred gold, and I will take care of your mother, so you can rest assured." There was silence outside, and after a while, the woman's voice sounded, "Okay, I promise you......"
There was a sound of departing footsteps, and gradually there was silence outside, and after a while, the boy beside me laughed coldly, and pushed me out of the cave, and I fell to the ground.
The boy came out of the cave and walked away without looking at me, perhaps because he was too nervous, perhaps because he was frightened, and I collapsed to the ground with all my strength, and struggled several times to get up, but still fell to the ground.
There was a sound of footsteps again, and I looked up in horror, but it was the young man who had gone and returned, and when he saw that I was still sitting on the ground, he looked down at me, "coward," he said in disgust, and seeing that I was still shaking, he frowned, and pressed his hands tightly on my shoulders, "Forget what you just heard, did you hear?" I nodded, but my teeth were fighting up and down, "Why are you so useless!" A few words scared you like this, if you shake again, I will strangle you here first, do you hear ......" The young man's mouth threatened me, but I was not afraid of him, he threatened me a few words, seeing that I was still shaking, he finally stopped talking, sighed and pulled me up from the ground and held me in his arms, and slowly patted my back with one hand......
There was a commotion in the distance, and I faintly heard someone shouting: "The third prince has fallen into the water, the eldest princess has fallen into the water, come to the ...... "We look at each other and leave!" The boy snorted and reached out to pull me up from the ground, and I nodded quickly and stumbled away with him......
When I came back that day, I fell ill, and the doctor said that I had typhoid fever, and I had a fever for four or five days, and I drank a lot of decoctions to get rid of the fever, and I recuperated in bed for another month before I finally recovered completely. During the time I was lying in bed, occasionally when I fell asleep and just woke up, I would hear the maids who took care of me talking about the third prince who had just drowned, as well as the crazy Princess Zhuo and the seriously ill King Yan. By the time I was almost ready, they had seldom mentioned the third prince, and instead talked about the two beauties from the Liang Kingdom with great interest.
I finally recovered, can not continue to lie in bed, this morning got up, after freshening, I took the maid to my aunt to say goodbye, I was sick during this time, my aunt came to see twice, and sent someone to send a few times medicine, I was sick at the time I don't know, and so I relieved myself, listen to my side Xu Mama said, so as soon as I got better, I came to say goodbye.
When I went in, my aunt was talking to the prince who came to ask for peace, and when she saw me coming in, she hurriedly called me to me and looked me up and down, "Ami has lost a lot of money in the past few days, and I have to ask the next person to make up for you." I nodded in agreement.
"Sister Ami has something she wants to eat and play, just tell her brother" The prince looked at me with a smile, the prince didn't look like King Yan with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a bit like his aunt's eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and when he smiled slightly, he looked as warm as jade, I muttered in response, lowered his head and looked at his toes, and didn't make a sound, the prince said a few more words, I was a little afraid that he would answer two words vaguely, and he himself felt bored and stopped looking at me, just talking to his aunt. My aunt left us for breakfast, and I stayed up until the end with trepidation, and hurried back to the house, not paying any attention to the grandmothers and maids who followed me.
I got into the quilt and covered my head, shivering in the quilt, thinking about the prince who had just heard the prince talk lightly about the third prince in the palace who had just died of illness, when he said this, there was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, as if it was just a kitten and puppy that died, I remember that when the cat I had in the past died, I cried for two whole days, why is a human life so insignificant to him? I didn't dare to think about it, I didn't dare to ask, I instinctively felt that I was going to bury it in my heart forever......
Mama Xu and the maid Yudie Caijuan hurriedly chased back, saw me hiding in the quilt with my head covered, and hurriedly came up and pulled me out of the quilt, Mama reached out and touched my clothes, "Princess, you are sweating all over, you have to change your clothes quickly, be careful of catching a cold...... I hummed, let them change my clothes for me, and refreshed myself.
After packing up, the girl came in to report that the big girl in front of the queen, Lu Qi, was here. I just remembered that my aunt said that I would go to the study from today onwards, so I took Yudie and followed Lu Qi to the study.
There are three sons of King Yan in the school: the crown prince Chen Xie, the second prince Chen Pu, the fourth prince Chen Xing, and two daughters: the eldest princess Chen Yao, the second princess Chen Huan, plus Liu Mao, the crown prince of the Liang Kingdom, and me, a total of seven people. The eldest princess Chen Yao has not come to school for a long time because she fell into the water and suffered a cold, and now that she is getting better and is busy preparing for marriage, it is estimated that she will not be able to come again in the future.
Men's and women's classes are taken separately, the men invited some Su Confucian lectures on the history of the subset of Taishi Taifu to talk about the way of governing the country, and the women's side is some female officials to talk about women's virtues and women's precepts and etiquette norms and qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, compared to the strictness of the men's side, the women's side of the women's moral precepts and etiquette requirements are stricter, as for the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are based on personal interests, more casual.
The second princess, Chen Huan, is two years younger than me, and she is a chatter, because only the two of us girls go to school together, so she chatters around me every day, asks me about Korean customs and anecdotes, and also tells me about the interesting things she has encountered. Only she and the prince are siblings in this palace, the prince and the queen love her very much, take care of her everywhere, and raise her temperament is a little naïve and arrogant, but she never puts a princess on the shelf for me, and only messes with me all day long.
Because she is close to the prince, and often takes me to the East Palace, so gradually I and the prince gradually become familiar, the prince always smiles and is amiable when he sees people, and after a long time, slowly I am no longer afraid of him, and I can calmly say a few words to him.
We are all the same master in the three courses of music and rhythm, calligraphy and painting, and chess, and every time Chen Huan and I go to the east study where the prince and them are in class, the master will guide each one by one according to the progress of each person. Therefore, I gradually became familiar with the second prince and the fourth prince, and often chatted a few words.
Although we are both in the study, I don't see Liu Mao much, he often doesn't come to class, and when we meet, he also passes me with a blank face, and I never greet him. I heard that he loves martial arts, and most of the time he is in the martial arts arena with the soldiers of the imperial guard camp, and most of the time he is napping when he comes to the study, because he is the prince of Liang State, so the masters do not discipline him.