CHAPTER XIII

Wu Mingxing saw Dongfang Du riding a horse and disappearing from his sight, so he turned over and led his subordinates to chase her in the direction where she disappeared. The dark clouds followed Dongfang Du a hundred meters behind, if Dongfang Du turned back, he would definitely be able to see the dark clouds behind him, but at this moment, Dongfang Du was all on Dongfang Lingwu in his arms.

"Ling Wu, how does it feel to ride a horse?" Dongfang Du clenched the reins with both hands, rested his head lightly on Dongfang Lingwu's shoulder, and asked softly with a shallow smile.

Dongfang Lingwu closed his eyes, feeling the oncoming wind, it is winter now, the wind has a biting chill, through the clothes, but can still feel the warmth of the person behind him, perhaps because he was trapped in his arms, the chill brought by the wind completely dissipated in the warmth from behind him.

"It's a little cold" obviously didn't feel cold, but Dongfang Lingwu said such a sentence, Dongfang Du heard this, so he gently pulled the reins and let Xiao Hei slow down. Xiao Hei was quite spiritual, and when he felt the signal from the reins, he slowed down the horse's hooves, thinking that even if the horse ran slowly, there would still be a cold wind blowing in his face, so Dongfang Du said: "Why don't you sit behind me, I'll block the wind for you." After speaking, he shouted "huh", which made Xiao Hei stop completely.

Feeling Dongfang Du's thoughtfulness, Dongfang Lingwu's heart was warm, he never thought that this younger brother, who was two years younger than himself, would be so considerate and caring for people, obviously he was still a child, and he was already thinking about sheltering himself from the wind and rain.

Dongfang Du sat up straight, his chin left Dongfang Lingwu's shoulder, his hands loosened the reins, and he was about to turn over and dismount, but Dongfang Lingwu took Dongfang Du's hand and said with a smile: "I still want to sit in front." ”

Dongfang Du frowned, "Aren't you cold?" Sit behind me. Gently broke free of Dongfang Lingwu's hand, he still turned over and got off the horse, stood under the horse, looked up at Dongfang Lingwu and said, "You move back, I will sit in front of you." ”

Dongfang Lingwu pursed his lips and shook his head with a smile, his body did not move a bit, seeing this, Dongfang Du was helpless, and at a casual glance, he found that he was already in the bustling street market, so he raised his eyebrows at Dongfang Lingwu, and said with a smile: "Ling Wu, now that you are in the market, why don't you get off the horse and walk with me." "I thought, 'When you get off the horse, you don't have to worry about who sits in front and who sits in the back, and when you get on the horse again, I'll just let you sit behind me.'"

Hearing Dongfang Du's words, Dongfang Lingwu realized that he was already among the ordinary people, and felt the voices of the people around him. Although there are many people in the palace, they can't laugh and talk at will like this common people, and occasionally frolicking, but it's just a joke between the concubines, which is quite boring and can't feel the slightest affection.

Dongfang Du handed her hand to Dongfang Lingwu and helped her off the horse. Dongfang Lingwu stood on Dongfang's side, curiously glanced around, passers-by coming and going, all kinds of stalls, and the cries of selling one after another, sighing that this is real life. "When I build a mansion outside the palace in the future, I will go to the streets every day to feel that this is different from the life in the palace." Dongfang Lingwu whispered beside Dongfang Du and began to imagine his future life.

The palace is a golden wire cage, trapped in it and not free, even breathing with shackles, looking at the calm waves, but intrigue everywhere, Dongfang Lingwu as the only princess of the Dongqian Kingdom, although the status is noble, but there are still many things that can not be done, it seems to be high, but everywhere is bound. Dongfang Lingwu saw this free and easy life outside the palace, and began to dream of being eighteen years old. You only need to be eighteen years old to be eligible to go out of the palace and build a mansion.

"I'm afraid you won't have that kind of thought then." Dongfang Du replied with a smile.

"How so? Life outside the palace seems so interesting. Dongfang Lingwu said and began to look at the people around him carefully, "Hey, the fabric is sold in rolls like this?" There seems to be a rouge seller there! That smells so good, what's delicious......

Dongfang Du had a touch of sadness in his eyes, and said slowly with low eyebrows: "No matter how interesting it is, if there is no one to accompany you, you will feel lonely and empty after a long time." No matter how good the scenery is, he will get tired of seeing too much, and now he is tired of the life in the palace, and he will definitely get tired of this ordinary life one day. After speaking, he realized that what he had just said did not look like a fourteen-year-old boy would think of, and he hurriedly restrained the sadness in his eyes and replaced it with a faint smile.

Without waiting for Dongfang Ling Wu to say anything, he continued as soon as he spoke: "Ling Wu, if you have the princess's mansion in the future, will you go back to the palace to see me?" Dongfang Du is two years younger than Dongfang Lingwu, I remember that in my previous life, I lost my mother at the age of fourteen, Dongfang Lingwu accompanied her in the palace until she was sixteen years old, and then went out of the palace to build the princess's mansion, and since then, the time to accompany her has been much less.

Dongfang Du was crowned king at the age of eighteen - the king of Qing, the prince of no power and no power, he was a woman, he never thought of asking for the throne of the prince's seat, after leaving the palace, the dark cloud did not reduce the number of times he looked for Dongfangdu, and ran to the palace as soon as he was free, and he was happy to live like this. But the dark cloud is a dark guard after all, and he can't always be with him, so Dongfang Du gave birth to the idea of living in seclusion in an uninhabited valley, if he is with his loved ones, he will be in the yellow sand desert, and he will live happily, who knows......

Dongfang Lingwu's distant gaze returned to Dongfang Du, "You and my mother are the closest and most trusted people to me, even if you leave the palace, I will always miss you, and when the time comes, I will bring you strange things outside the palace" Dongfang Lingwu gently scraped the bridge of Dongfang Du's nose, his eyes were full of spoiling, and his sister doted on his younger brother.

"Sugar gourd~Big and sweet sugar gourd~" A little brother carrying a sugar gourd dun came from far and near, "Childe, Miss, do you want to string sugar gourds?" "This sugar gourd has always been sold to children, but the little brother of the sugar gourd saw Dongfang Lingwu staring at his sugar gourd with a pair of eager eyes, so he dared to walk up to Dongfang Du and Dongfang Lingwu and ask.

"Can you eat this?" Dongfang Lingwu tugged at the corners of Dongfang Du's clothes, with a hint of shyness and fear, she had never communicated with the ordinary people outside the palace, and she didn't know if they could eat what they ate, so she could only ask Dongfang Du beside her in a whisper.

Seeing that the imperial sister in front of him, who was younger than himself, was so dependent on him, Dongfang Du smiled lightly, raised his head and said to the sugar gourd brother: "Come to two strings" The sugar gourd brother smiled and squinted, quickly took two strings of sugar gourds from the sugar dun and handed them to Dongfang Du and said: "Six Wen Qian" Dongfang Du took out the copper coin from his sleeve and handed it to the sugar gourd brother, reached out to take the sugar gourd, handed a string of sugar gourds to Dongfang Ling Wu, and said with a smile: "Ling Wu, taste it"

Dongfang Lingwu took the sugar gourd, blinked his eyes, and then carefully took a bite on the first hawthorn, it was very sweet, and then it was slightly sour, "It's delicious" Dongfang Lingwu boasted, and after speaking, he continued to bite down, and saw that Dongfang Du was holding another string of sugar gourds and didn't eat it, so he asked, "Why don't you eat it?" ”

Dongfang Du smiled and shook his head without explaining, thinking that when Dongfang Lingwu finished eating the skewer, he would give her the skewer in his hand. I'm already twenty years old, and it seems naïve to eat this child's stuff again.

"I'll take you here for a casual stroll, but it can only be half an hour, and after half an hour, we will go out of the city, and we should be able to reach the boundary of Jinzhou City when it gets dark." Dongfang Du has already planned a qiē in his heart, first take Dongfang Lingwu to take a walk in this Jingzhou Imperial City, feel what the daily life of the people outside the palace is like, and then hurry to Jinzhou City next door, and then rush to Yongzhou City the next day, and then rush to Yongzhou City on the third day, and on the third day, he should be able to rush to Wuya Mountain, which is located at the junction of Yongzhou and Yuzhou.

Dongfang Du was about to take Dongfang Lingwu for a walk, but he felt that there seemed to be a resentful gaze behind him falling on him. Dongfang Du turned around and suddenly saw a dark cloud ten meters away leading a horse looking at him. Dark Cloud's eyes were full of grievances, as if to say, 'How can you go behind my back and find another woman to do something sorry for me?' Seeing Dongfangdu, I couldn't help but panic.