I drove her chariot through the night rain in Tokyo.

"Is it there?" She asked from time to time in the car. Her weeping was the only faint voice I could make out in between.

"Soon, soon......," I replied, waving my whip at the driving bull. The beast, whose gait had always been calm, abandoned its habit of sighing three times at a time, and ran forward in horror, and the axle of the car ran through the two red wheels, and walked through the uninhabited alleyway.

The bustling street market during the day suddenly faded into dark green ruins, and we should have traveled a long way in the wind out of the corner of my eye. The boundless rain and her sorrow hit me, soaking through my clothes, and the dampness spread in, and even the bottom of my heart was cold.

I grew anxious at the sound of her cries, and I didn't dare to look back, but only flicked frequently, hoping that speed would lead us through the current predicament in an instant.

When did the journey that used to be so long and so long? It was as if I had walked for half my life.

She cried all the time.

"Haven't you arrived yet?" She asked again with a sigh of relief.

I opened my mouth, but I didn't make a sound. For a moment I felt weaker than ever, and sadly found that I was not sure how to take her to the other side of the night.

After turning around a few more markets, we finally drove onto the avenue outside Xihua Gate. After the layers of fog and rain, the majestic imperial city gradually became clear, there are several palace lamps hanging under the eaves covered by glazed tiles, and the high wall between the bricks and stones is engraved with dragons and phoenixes flying clouds, which is the destination of our trip.

The Xihua Gate had long been closed, and the guards guarding the gate saw that I had a tendency to drive closer, and immediately shouted at me from afar: "Who is so bold to drive close to the Imperial City Gate!" ”

I hesitated for a moment and pulled to a stop. As soon as I looked back, I wanted to ask her to wait, and let me report first, but I saw that she had already lifted the curtain by herself, got out of the car and rushed towards the imperial city gate.

Her sorrow was so great that she was in no mood to put on her make-up, and as when we left the house, she had her long hair and a slight mess of clothes, and she had no shawls or shawls, and even the untimely cloak I had hastily put on her.

She ran to Xihua Gate crying casually, and before she could get close, she was stopped by two guards who met her, one of them grabbed her by one of her arms, and shouted angrily to drive her away, and she became more and more crazy, I don't know why she had such great strength, she broke free from the two of them, and ran to Xihua Gate at a faster pace.

She stretched out her slender hands, desperately banged on the closed palace door, and shouted with a cry: "Daddy, open the door!" Let me go back ......."

The guards on both sides were in an uproar and rushed to expel her. She was dragged away by two other tall guards, but her hand still reached forward as best she could, trying to reach the cold palace door with golden nails and vermilion. She kept calling her parents, there was thunder, the sound of wind and rain seemed muddy, and her crying voice was faint and poignant.

The guards dragged her for dozens of paces and then stopped, threw her to the ground, and when she wanted to get up and run back, one of them became angry and rebuked: "Where did the madwoman dare to go wild here!" "The halberd he held upside down on the wall lifted the rod high, and he saw that it was about to fall on her.

He didn't swing it because I grabbed his wrist from the **.

The Praetorian guard looked back and immediately asked angrily, "Who are you?" ”

I didn't answer, my eyes looked over the guard's shoulders to her on the ground.

She was half-lying, so helplessly weeping. Pale in complexion, his thin body hid under a wide pale robe, like a pool of moonlight that would fade at any moment.

The even more annoyed Praetorian guard pulled his hand out and was about to turn to me, but this time he was stopped by his companion.

"Wait! I know him. Another janissary said. He looked me up and down a few more times before he whispered to the halberd bearer: "He is Liang Huaiji, a nobleman, and he has passed through here several times before. ”

The halberd bearer was stunned, then turned his head to look at the woman who was pushed down by them, and asked again: "Then ...... this little lady?"

I went to help her up, and after making sure she wasn't hurt, I turned to the guard and answered his question.

"Princess Yanguo." I say.