Chapter Ninety-Eight: Meritorious Service (1)
After the military parade, the Marquis of Jin and the Duke of Lu, who had been oppressed by the powerful ministers in the country, admired the monarch who responded to the call of the country like Fucha, so they took turns to invite the newborn overlord to hunt in the mountains together.
Yesterday it was Lu Gong, and today it is the turn of the Marquis of Jin. Because Zhao Ying wanted to accompany him, Zhao Wuxian invited me to go with him. I decisively refused, I was still a little scared and nervous in the place where Zhao Ying was, not to mention that Boru was sick again shortly after the ceremony.
"How many more times do I have to drink this medicine?" Bruw ran behind the screen and accompanied me to decoction the medicine.
I glanced at him and said softly, "There's smoke here, you go sit outside." β
"It's okay, I've been much better these days, I don't cough often at night, and I feel dizzy a lot less during the day." He pulled a mat and sat next to me, and sighed, "Sitting like this with you reminds me of the past when Mingyi was still there, he also liked to hide behind the screen and boil medicine for me." β
"Why did Mingyi leave in the first place?" I opened the clay pot and looked at it, and asked softly.
"He has an enemy who doesn't share the sky, and his father left his enemy in the Jin Kingdom, and he left in a fit of anger." Beru smiled bitterly, "You also know his temper, if he wants to leave, ten cows will not be able to pull it back." β
"Mingyi has an enemy?" I wondered.
"Hey, it's hard for others to talk about him, and when he sees it one day, he may tell you himself."
Bolu didn't want to say, and I didn't want to continue asking, so he said: "You can drink this medicine for two more days and stop, and I don't dare to give you any heavy medicine with my half-baked medical skills, since it is the root of the old disease, you have to recuperate slowly." It's a little windy today, I'll go out for a walk with you after drinking the medicine later? β
"No, there are still guests coming later, you better go first, just leave it to the maid here." Later, when Hongyun'er comes back from hunting the prey, you will come again. β
"Okay, I'll come back later. The medicine is already ready, you can let the servant pour it out, remember to drink it while it is hot. I patted the smoke off my body, got up and quit the camp.
In fact, at Gongzili's wedding banquet, I had some guesses about Mingyi's identity, and the two patriots recognized me as him because of the witch robes on my body, and called me a "good slave".
Slave, slave...... I chewed on these two words, trying to sketch out in my mind the possible past of Mingyi.
"Little brother, may I ask if this is the Zhao family's camp?" I was thinking about it when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind me.
I deliberately suppressed my voice, and ran away with a humming sound.
"Heyβ" shouted from the people behind, and I had already turned several corners and ducked into a tent.
How did Fu Shu come here? Could he be the guest that Berlu spoke of? Or is it - Gongzi Li is also here!
I hid in the soldiers' tent for a while, and when I saw that Fu Shu had not caught up, I tiptoed back to the outside of the Beru tent, lifted the white cloth tent and quietly got in, hiding behind the screen.
"Childe is here to ......" said Berlu.
"Li came this time, one is to meet Wu Gong on the order of the monarch to send a congratulatory gift, and the other is to ask the prince to fulfill the agreement he made with Li in Yongcheng that day."
I looked out through the gap in the screen, and the person sitting across from Beru was Gongzili, whom I hadn't seen for a long time.
"Childe has finally made up his mind this time?" Buru laughed.
"Yes, I hope the son of the world can help when the time comes."
"As long as Gongzi can fulfill his promise to my Jin Kingdom Zhao clan in the future, Beru will do his best."
When Bolu said this, Gongzi Li seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, he took a red lacquer box from Fu Shu's hand and handed it to Bolu: "I heard that Shizi likes blue glass beads, and the craftsmen in the forging place happened to get a few good ones last month, and Li specially brought them to Shizi this time, and I hope Shizi can do Li another favor." β
"Childe is too polite, if there is anything I can help, Childe just ask."
"I heard that the daughter of the Zhao family has not yet married, but is there such a thing?"
"The eldest sister Bo Ying has been favored by her father since she was a child, and she was promised to the son of the Zhongxing clan when she was a child, and later the Zhongxing clan made a mess, and the marriage was annulled. Over the years, the eldest sister has never found the person she likes, and her father let her drag it like this, but she didn't expect that the reputation of the old daughter of the Zhao family has spread to the Qin State. β
"No, no, it was the virtue and beauty of the noble girl that spread to the Qin State." Childe replied with a smile.
"The son just got married and married the daughter of the Baili clan, don't you want Na Boying to be a concubine this time? Although the eldest sister is older, she is always the favorite daughter of her father, and we may not be able to talk about this matter. β
"Shizi misunderstood. In fact, Li came this time to ask the Zhao family to marry a noble daughter on behalf of the Qin general Wu Feng. β
"Is it General Wu who wants to marry the eldest sister?!" Bo Lu paused, and then smiled, "Father Qing has always praised General Wu Feng, and this marriage may be successful." β
"Then it will bother the prince, if Zhao Qingxiang is interested, three months later, General Wu will send the matchmaker to the Jin Kingdom to propose to the Zhao family. If this matter can be accomplished, the two countries of Qin and Jin will have another beautiful talk. β
Gongzi Li and Berlu exchanged a few more pleasantries and left, and I sat behind the screen in a daze, not even noticing when Beru had come in.
"Why are you here?" Beru shook my shoulder, "Did you hear what you just said?" β
"I'll go back first, I'll come back later!"
I stood up tremblingly, lifted the canopy and walked out, my head dizzy and my feet a little weak. After walking for a long time, when it was getting dark, I realized that I did not walk back to the tent, but walked half a circle around the lake. I lay on my back on the grass by the lake, and my heart was empty except for one sentence, that he was going to get married......
When I was young, I used to sit in the crook of his arm and whisper to him, "General, why don't you get married?" Even the chef of the kitchen is married.
At that time, he smiled and patted my head and joked, can children want to get married? If you don't want to, then I don't want to.
"I still don't want to, but why did you break your word?" I looked at the unreachable night sky overhead, muttered softly, hot tears sliding down my cheeks and disappearing into the grass. For so many years, I took his words seriously, but he only took them as a joke to prevaricate the child.
"You know how long I've been looking for you!" Someone pulled me up from the grass in the dark.
I shook off his hand, took a few steps back, looked at Zhao Wuxian with an angry face in front of me in a daze, and said timidly: "You don't care about me!" β
"You don't have to worry about me! If it hadn't been for the son of the world asking me to come to you, I wouldn't have come to see you like a ghost! Go, come back with me! He took a step and held my hand tightly.
I was dragged by him and walked two steps, and finally couldn't help but squat down, choked up: "Hongyun'er, let me stay for a while, just for a while, I don't want to go back like this." β
"What are you upset about? Since you decided to leave the Qin State and leave him that day, do you still think that one day he will cry and shout and beg you to go back? Shameless squatted down in front of me helplessly, "Can you wake up?" He has forgotten you, why do you remember him? When you can't turn back, you can only keep going, you know? β
"I understand, but I can't do it......" I despised my cowardice, I chose to escape in the face of unbearable pain, I fled far away to the Jin Kingdom, but everything about him still followed, and I couldn't escape.
"Since you can't do it, then I'll help you again today. This is a letter sent from Qin State the day before yesterday, I wanted to hide it from you, but since it has been done like this today, I will simply let you know. β
"What is this?" I took a piece of silk cloth with writing from Wuxian's hand and glanced at it in the moonlight.
"The person who wrote this letter has imprisoned Si'er and Wuxie, and he wants to make a deal with me privately."
"He wants you to kill the prince for him......" I was swallowed up by boundless despair, and I was suffocated for a moment.
"If you are sad, cry!" Wuxian gently hugged the stiff me into his arms and said softly, "After crying today, don't cry for him again." β
Wu Feng found the two attendants left by Wuxian in the Yongcheng Station, and he asked those two people to bring a letter to Wuxian, informing him that Si'er and Wuxian were in Wufu, and if he wanted to return to the two of them, he had to exchange the life of the prince.
Bolu was ordered by Zhao Ying to make an alliance with Gongzili in Yongcheng that day, if the prince Yan plotted to kill Gongzili or colluded with the rebellion of the two countries, then the Zhao family would help Gongzili ascend to the throne of the prince, on the condition that after Gongzili ascended the throne, he would promote the alliance between Qin and Jin, and if the Zhao family was in any danger in the future, Gongzili would have to help.
The crown prince is close to Chu and far away from Jin, if he ascends the throne, it will not be a blessing for the Jin Kingdom, and the son of the same Mrs. Jun is the opposite. Considering Bolu's body and character, Zhao Ying's move was also to stabilize the Zhao family's foundation as much as possible after a hundred years. However, the assassination of the crown prince was not included in the agreement.
"Si'er and Wuxie, I will find a way to bring you back, you can not interfere in this matter." Shirtless brought me back from the lake last night, and came to see me with Berlu early this morning.
"I'm fine, it's just about the assassination of the prince, Gongzi Li can know?" I cleared my throat and said.
"I should also know that he can't do this, and Wu Feng can't do it either. The prince must die, and he must die at the hands of unrelated men. Father Qing already knew, and acquiesced to this. Bo Lu glanced at me worriedly, and then said slowly, "Also, my father has agreed to marry my eldest sister Bo Ying to Wu Feng, if nothing else, three months later, Wu Feng's matchmaker will come to the door to propose marriage." β
"Well, then when are you leaving for the Qin Kingdom?" I turned my head and asked Shirtless.
"Don't worry, this matter is very important, wait for us to return to the Jin Kingdom and make careful arrangements before leaving."
"We've been in Huangchi for almost a month, I don't know what happened to Wu Yue?"
"The Yue Kingdom has invaded the Wu capital Gusu, the prince of Wu was defeated and killed himself, and Gusutai was burned by Goujian."
"Why does that husband still have a night banquet with Sanjun every day, hunting in the mountains and forests?" I was surprised by the words of Wuxi, I didn't expect the speed of King Goujian of Yue to be so fast, he had been fighting hard in recent years, and he finally waited for this God-given opportunity.
"Father Qing has secretly sent people to intercept and kill seven messengers of Wu, so the husband doesn't know about the capture of Gusu at this time." Beru said softly.
Boru's words reminded me of the few black-clad men who came out of Shi Mo's tent that day, how could the far-sighted Zhao Ying let the messenger see his husband alive.
"In order to prevent Yue Guo from swallowing Wu in one bite this time, what Father Qing means is that we must now find a way to let Fu Cha leave Huangchi as soon as possible and return to Wu State." Shirtless said in a deep voice.
"This is difficult, yesterday the monarchs of Jin and Lu also made an appointment with Wu Gong to go boating in the Yellow Pond tomorrow!" Buru is embarrassed.