Chapter 376: Childish Innocence
Early the next morning, the carriage and horse escorting Xuanyuan Cheng set off again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At noon, when the guards came to deliver food to Lehua again, she did not refuse.
Since her father and Ah Jun will save her, then she will endure it.
……
The farther north we went, the colder it became, and the cold wind whistled like a sharp knife cutting through people's faces, causing pain.
When I arrived at the border city, it was the end of November, and it was winter, and the cold was eating away at the bones.
Zhao Wan and Lehua are both pampered women who grew up, although there are cold winters in the capital, but every winter, they almost don't have to go out, the earth dragon in the house is extremely warm, if it is still cold, you can also add a brazier to the house.
Even when they want to go out, they will be wrapped in thick thick coats, holding a stove in their hands, and even the carriage they ride in is airtight.
Instead of being like now, the prisoner car is ventilated on all sides, and their bodies are only a layer of cotton clothing, which cannot protect them from the cold at all.
Lehua kept rubbing her hands, although it was cold, she knew that this would not be the time for her to complain, her father and Ah Jun would come to save her, she just had to endure it, and it would be over!
Unlike Lehua's attitude of actively surviving, Zhao Wan's expression did not fluctuate from the moment she was arrested, and the only thing she said to the guards who escorted them was "I want to see our prince".
However, no one paid any attention to her.
After that, she didn't say anything, her eyes became more and more empty day by day, and she was always in a daze at the sky, woods, fish and insects, as if she had fallen into a magic barrier.
On the third day of the lunar month, the group finally arrived at the border city.
Xuanyuan Hao personally sent them to the place where they were serving and released them out of the prison car, but the chains on their bodies would not be untied for the time being.
Zhao Wan finally saw Xuanyuan Cheng on this day, her expression was a little excited, her eyes were red, she wanted Xuanyuan Cheng to talk to him by her side, but seeing that the people around her were not there, she didn't dare to move her steps.
Zhao Wan wanted to speak and stopped.
Lehua doesn't have such a deep affection for Xuanyuan Cheng.
The love that was snatched when she was young and ignorant was disillusioned as early as the moment she married into the Chengwang Mansion. She was now just waiting for her father and brother to come to her.
Xuanyuan Cheng has no affection for Lehua.
As soon as he got out of the prisoner car, he looked towards Zhao Wan.
When he saw her eyes reddened, his heart chuckled, and he looked at Xuanyuan Hao angrily.
Xuanyuan Hao glanced at him lightly, ignored it, and directly ordered the guards: "Escort them into this room." ”
The guards should be, and in pairs escorted Xuanyuan Cheng into the house.
The moonlight was hazy, and Xuanyuan Hao exhaled lightly and muttered, "It's finally going to end." ”
He turned around and stepped out of the small courtyard where Xuanyuan Cheng was being held.
Listen to the quiet outside.
Zhao Wan cautiously approached Xuanyuan Cheng's side.
"What's wrong?" Xuanyuan Cheng asked her in a low voice, his eyes were scarlet, "Did they bully you!?" ”
The tone was fierce, if Zhao Wan replied with a "yes", I was afraid that he would immediately go out to find Xuanyuan Xian and go desperately!
Zhao Wan shook her head.
Xuanyuan Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and asked her softly: "What's the matter, tired, frozen?" ”
Xuanyuan Cheng cared for her.
Zhao Wan cried in a low voice with red eyes for a while, and it took a long time before she slowly stopped crying and said softly: "Master, the concubine is fine, the concubine... Just worried about you. ”
Xuanyuan Cheng took her into his arms and patted her on the back gently: "It's okay, the most important thing is that we are all alive." ”
As he spoke, Xuanyuan Cheng glanced in the direction of Lehua.
At this time, he had nothing.
On the contrary, his mood is not as concerned about gains and losses as before, and he sees Lehua more lightly.
Zhao Wan also turned around from Xuanyuan Cheng's arms and looked at Lehua in the opposite corner.
As soon as Lehua entered the house, she took Lehua to death.
In the past year, Lehua has never begged for benefits in Zhao Wan's hands.
But in this matter, their battle has long been meaningless.
No one knows how long they will live?
Xuanyuan Cheng looked at Lehua and motioned for Zhao Wan to stay where he was, while he dragged the anklet to Lehua's side.
Lehua looked up at him suddenly, his eyes a little panicked.
Xuanyuan Cheng ignored her expression and asked, "Will Lehou come to save you?" ”
Lehua was stunned and did not answer.
Xuanyuan Cheng continued: "If you come to save you, you can follow Lehou." Change your identity and name in the future and live a good life. ”
After saying that, Xuanyuan Cheng immediately dragged the chain back to Zhao Wan's side.
Lehua was stunned and looked at Xuanyuan Cheng's departing back in amazement.
For some reason, she felt a dull ache in her heart.
Zhao Wan, who was on the other side, also stared at Xuanyuan Cheng, her eyes full of puzzlement: "Master? ”
"Hmm..."Regulus smiled at her.
Zhao Wan froze, and her smile now was as if she had been when they first got married, so that she could trust and rely on her wholeheartedly.
Xuanyuan Cheng continued to laugh, he walked to Zhao Wan's side and sat on the ground with Zhao Wan, he helped Zhao Wan and let her lie in his arms.
That night, after he talked to Xuanyuan Hao, he finally understood.
It turns out that none of them are winners.
The real winner is their father.
From beginning to end, every fight between their brothers, I am afraid that the father is aware of it, and even more, perhaps the father has contributed more or less.
Xuanyuan Hao has a saying that is right, in the palace, if it is not something that is acquiesced by his father, who can really succeed?
Therefore, when Concubine Min died of illness and Xuanyuan Hao was poisoned by them, I am afraid that my father and emperor all knew.
Scold! Xuanyuan Cheng sneered in his heart, he thought that his father loved Xuanyuan Hao alone?! It's a joke! Compared with the dragon throne, I'm afraid that my father and emperor don't love anyone!
"Master," Xuanyuan Cheng thought alone, but Zhao Wan, who was lying in his arms, called him softly, "Is Master asleep?" ”
Xuanyuan Cheng came back to his senses, his arms clenched naturally, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Zhao Wan's eyes were full of smiles, and she said in a low voice: "Master, concubine... The concubine has a body..."
"Huh?" Xuanyuan Cheng was puzzled, "What's there?" ”
Zhao Wan's cheeks were slightly red, and her voice was even weaker, "Concubine, I have a child." ”
The breathing above his head suddenly stopped.
Zhao Wan waited for a long time, but she didn't hear the answer from the people around her, and she couldn't help but feel worried, would the master not want children? After all, this kid came at an inopportune time.
Once when they first got married, Zhao Wan was actually pregnant, but when she was young, and she lost her mother since she was a child, there were not many people who could teach her, and in the first two months of the child's arrival, she was busy getting familiar with the affairs of the Chengwang Mansion, and she went to the palace every day to ask for peace, hoping to leave a good impression in front of Concubine Hui.
When the child was two months old, she fainted due to overwork and fell on the bluestone floor, leaving a lot of blood on the slate.
And her body has not moved for so many years, and she is dead.
But just when they became criminals and were imprisoned in a small courtyard of Chengwang's mansion, in the first half month of coming to the border city, she found out that she was pregnant.
Zhao Wan didn't dare to tell Xuanyuan Cheng about this.
One was that she couldn't get a doctor at the time, and she couldn't confirm whether she was pregnant.
Moreover, at that time, their situation was difficult to protect, and she did not dare to reveal the slightest rumor, she was afraid that others would harm her children.
But now, it's not a good time.
They had just arrived in the border city, and although they were exempted from the death penalty, it did not mean that they were safe, they had just arrived in the border city, and the next thing was daily labor.
She was afraid that she would not be able to take it.
Just this way, she is almost overwhelmed.
She is carrying it for the child in her belly.
But even if the child came at the wrong time, Zhao Wan still wanted to keep him, the doctor said that her body was weak, it was difficult to get pregnant again, and it was already a godsend to be able to conceive a child, if she couldn't keep it again, she would have no chance to be a mother again.
The people around him didn't speak.
"Master?" She was apprehensive and slowly raised her face to look at Xuanyuan Cheng.
Xuanyuan Cheng was stunned for a long time, and it wasn't until Zhao Wan raised his face to look at him that he came back to his senses, lowered his head and kissed Zhao Wan's forehead, and said in a dumb voice: "Let's give birth to this child." ”
Zhao Wan looked happy, her eyes were as bright as stars in the night sky, and she was not empty at all when she was in the prisoner car, she smiled: "Master, really?!" ”
Xuanyuan said: "Of course. How can this be fake? ”
Zhao Wan was lying in Xuanyuan Cheng's arms and giggling, although they were tied with cold chains at the moment, their hearts were warm, and the warm channel could melt any cold.
But soon Zhao Wan couldn't be happy, she said: "But master, I'm afraid we're going to start serving labor in a few days?" Concubine, concubine in case... What if..."
"Everything is with me." Xuanyuan Cheng stopped what she was about to say, put his fingers through the broken hair on her forehead, and said, "I will find a way to let you stay at home." ”
Zhao Wan's eyes were deep, she wanted to ask, what can you do?
But she couldn't ask, she knew that her heart was in her and she couldn't make trouble for her master.
Early the next morning.
Xuanyuan Hao escorted them all out.
"Go to the labor camp at the city gate today, and this king will deliver you into the hands of the chief of labor by tomorrow morning at the latest."
The surrounding soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, their drudgery was finally over, and after tomorrow morning, they could rush back to the capital. If you hurry up on the road, day and night, you may be able to go home and celebrate the New Year with your family.
With this in mind, everyone's faces showed a smile that they hadn't seen for a long time.
Xuanyuan Cheng had a cold face.
Tomorrow?
No, tomorrow is too soon.
He simply didn't have time to prepare for anything else.
He knew what it was like to do hard labor.
Eat the least amount of food and do the most dirty work every day.
If that's it, then the labor camp is basically full of men, if Wan'er goes with her, can she still survive?
Xuanyuan Cheng gritted his teeth, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out.
He took a step forward, and the chain made a piercing "rubbing" sound.
The guard beside him quickly put the knife on his neck.
Zhao Wan panicked and looked at Xuanyuan Cheng eagerly.
Lehua was a little distracted, why didn't his father and Ah Jun come, why didn't they come?
She's going to be sent to a labor camp soon?
She, how could she go to that kind of place?!
Xuanyuan Hao glanced at Xuanyuan Cheng, waved his hand at the guards beside him, and asked, "Something?" ”
Xuanyuan Cheng hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Something." ”
"What's the matter?"
"I'd like to talk to you alone."
Xuanyuan Hao chuckled, "Why do you think I will agree?" ”
Xuanyuan Cheng paused, his face cold, "You must want to know about this matter." ”
Xuanyuan Hao looked at him and saw that he didn't seem to be lying, so he said, "Okay, I hope your words are really meaningful." ”
Xuanyuan Hao and Xuanyuan Cheng entered a room together.
"What are you going to say?"
Xuanyuan Cheng was silent and said, "Do you know why Yueqing has never conceived your child?" ”
"......" Xuanyuan Hao's face turned dark when he heard this.
Xuanyuan Cheng didn't care what his face was, and said straightforwardly: "I know why, I can help you, but I have one condition." ”
Xuanyuan Hao hesitated and said, "Why should I believe you? ”
Xuanyuan Cheng smiled suddenly, with a smug expression, "You and Yueqing have been married for two years, but there is no news at all, do you think my words are worth trusting?" ”
Xuanyuan Hao was stunned, and finally replied with a cold face: "I won't believe you." ”
With that, he turned around and walked out.
Xuanyuan was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "I drugged you, when you were still a fool!" ”
Xuanyuan Hao's footsteps stopped.
Xuanyuan Cheng said again: "I have an antidote." ”
Xuanyuan Hao's eyes were dark, he turned to Xuanyuan Cheng, and said word by word: "I don't believe you." Even if it were true, I would find an antidote. ”
He turned around, his hand touching the door.
But when he heard a "poof" sound behind him, Xuanyuan Cheng knelt on the ground.
Xuanyuan Hao was surprised and turned to look at him.
Xuanyuan Cheng lowered his head and said, "Please." ”
Xuanyuan Hao couldn't figure it out, what made Xuanyuan Cheng kneel down and beg him?
He was very interested to know, so he turned around, walked up to Xuanyuan Cheng, and asked, 'What do you want?' ”
Xuanyuan Cheng was silent for a moment, and then he took a long breath and said, "Wan'er is pregnant." I want her to stay here, and if I can, I'd better find her two mothers-in-law to take care of her. ”
Xuanyuan Cheng was not polite.
He knelt on his knees, and his face and self-esteem were all gone.
At least, it can give Wan'er a better environment.
Xuanyuan Hao was stunned, for the sake of the child, for Zhao Wan? For them, Xuanyuan Cheng knelt down to him?
He was a little overwhelmed.
After a long time, he nodded: "I promise you." ”
Xuanyuan Cheng lowered his head and suddenly raised his head to look at him, his eyes were incredulous, and he said, "It's so easy to agree?" ”
Xuanyuan Hao bowed his head.
Xuanyuan Cheng still asked: "There are no other conditions?" ”
Xuanyuan Hao glanced at him and said, "The child is innocent." ”
Xuanyuan Hao turned around and walked out of the door, and said to the guards outside the door, "Leave Zhao Wan behind." Then he instructed Ah Huan, who came with him, and said, "You go to the city to find a few mothers-in-law who have experience in taking care of people." ”
Ah Huan glanced at him suspiciously, his lips squirmed, but he didn't say anything, and left with his sword.
Xuanyuan Cheng walked out of the room at this time, and said to Xuanyuan Hao: "The antidote is in my study." ”
(To be continued.) )