Chen Lihua woke up from the nightmare again.

In her sleep, she once again came to the Daliang Royal Court half a month later, and saw the object of her order and kiss, different from the previous hazy, this time she clearly saw the whole picture of the other party. It was a fat man six feet tall and six feet wide, and when he got closer, he seemed to be able to smell the leftover leeks in the other party's mouth, as well as the greasy sweat that came out of the fat man's body with the heat. This time the dream was clearer and longer than ever. He finished worshipping with her and went into the cave room. Seeing that the white flowers pressed up one by one, even in a dream, Chen Lihua was about to bite her tongue in despair.

Chen Lihua, who woke up, was covered with cold sweat, gasping for breath, and there was a faint pain in her mouth, and she suddenly stretched out her hand, as if she could still feel the suffocation and helplessness of being pressed and squirming by hundreds of catties of fat in her dream. She quietly looked through the gap in the beaded curtain, and outside the carriage was still the mottled wall of Chongming City, on which the hanged Jin rebels were still shaking, and the crows were resting on the wall, screaming in dissatisfaction because it was not yet night and they could not feast on the corpses.

The scenery is desolate, but it can still give people a sense of security, at least this is Chongming, the outermost border city of Daliang, except for the four fortresses, the closest city to Dajin, from here, every next step will be farther and farther away from their hometown. But at least this is not the imperial capital of the Liang Kingdom, and he can still curl up in this small carriage to steal a moment of peace.

Chen Lihua's small hand patted her chest gently, thinking of her future fate, and she felt a sorrow in her heart. When he noticed that the carriage had stopped for a long time, he lifted the beaded curtain and asked, "Why did the mission stop?" ”

Outside the carriage, the muffled voice of the maid Chunjin came, "Your Highness, the fleeing refugees have blocked the door." ”

Chen Lihua asked, "Why didn't Liang Guo provide disaster relief?" Chunjin continued to reply in a muffled voice, "These refugees were created by Liang Guo raiding the border, and it would be good if Liang Guo didn't kill all these people." ”

Chen Lihua could only sigh, "Then wait slowly." Looking at Chunjin's sullen expression, Chen Lihua couldn't help but apologize again.

In the palace, she is the most unpopular princess, although she is the most beautiful, but because her biological mother is just a maid, she has no power in the deep palace, and she has been bullied by the concubines of other palaces since she was a child. Since she came back from her father when she was six years old, Chunjin has suffered a lot in order to protect her, and Chen Lihua has been looking forward to finding a colt to marry as soon as possible and escape from the fire pit of the palace. But that day, the Great Liang envoy ruthlessly shattered her dream, and the Great Liang envoy arrogantly announced that his emperor would be sixty years old in three months, which was a good day to marry the daughter of the Great Jin Dynasty. Seeing the threat of the Liang people's 300,000 iron horsemen, the Manchu civil and military forces all nodded their heads and accepted this ridiculous suggestion to marry the girl and the sixty-year-old man. As the most excluded princess in the palace, there is no suspense that Chen Lihua was selected.

Chen Lihua still remembered that night, after the great eunuch read the holy decree, he looked at himself and shook his head and sighed, Chunjin knelt directly on the ground, crying into tears. After receiving the order of thanksgiving, Chunjin hugged her leg and cried bitterly and said that he didn't want to go to the Liang people, saying that he heard that the Liang people emperor had a big waist and a round waist, three heads and six arms, and would rinse his mouth with virgin blood at night, and he would eat human flesh at every meal, and none of the girls who entered the palace lived for a week.

The result of Chunjin's bitter crying was that Chen Lihua relented for a while, promised to let her leave secretly, and gave her the jewelry she had saved up with great difficulty as travel expenses. But after wiping away her tears all night, Chunjin returned to her less than an hour after leaving the next day. Instead, he insisted on accompanying Chen Lihua to Liang Kingdom, in Chunjin's words, "Your Highness, you have been bullied enough with me to accompany you, I can't imagine how you go to Liang Kingdom alone?" ”

Chen Lihua recalled this, and sighed helplessly. In fact, she once thought that she would go to the fire pit alone, so why bother to take Chunjin with her. But thinking that he was in an enemy country, alone, and every hometown person was a good medicine to relieve homesickness, the order to force Chunjin to leave lingered on his lips several times, and finally he ate it back in his stomach. She was afraid of the days when she served a bad old man alone in Liang Kingdom, so in order to give herself at least someone to talk to in the future, she still selfishly accepted Chunjin's kindness.

There was a sound of horses' hooves outside the window, and with a "hoo", it returned to calm, it seemed that someone from Liang was coming, Chen Lihua wanted to open the curtains, but sixteen years of teaching told her that women should be dignified and virtuous, and should not have too much curiosity, gentleness and frugality are women's virtues. So she asked Chunjin to find out what was going on, and she just sat in the carriage with her hands folded in her lower abdomen, listening quietly. There was a small discussion outside, then a quarrel, a rampant laughter of the barbarians, and when Chunjin's scream came, Chen Lihua finally couldn't sit still, she asked softly out of the window, "What's wrong?" ”

No one answered, and the arrogant Liang people attracted the attention of everyone in the mission, Chen Lihua felt a little flustered, and slapped the mahogany carved handrail in the carriage with her hand, "Someone came to tell me what happened!" ”

No one cared about her shouting, Chen Lihua shouted loudly, but she didn't dare to open the curtain from beginning to end. After a long time, the accompanying squire trotted over with half a swollen face, "Your Highness Qiqi, the Liang officials who came to pick us up just now, and they had a little conflict with our people. Luckily, no one had an accident. ”

Chen Lihua was secretly relieved to hear that no one had an accident. "Where's Chunjin?"

"The Liang people said they needed some Jin girls to serve them, and Chunjin volunteered to go."

Hearing these words, Chen Lihua's eyes flickered, she clenched her fists, her nails sinking deep into the flesh, "You said she was voluntary?" ”

The squire did not answer the question directly. "All for the sake of diplomatic relations between the two countries."

Chen Lihua asked, "Didn't you say that no one had an accident?" ”

The squire still asked, "Isn't this a matter of time or time for her?" ”

Chen Lihua laughed miserably and thought, yes, is it important to be involuntary? For the sake of diplomatic relations between the two countries, she is destined to be sent over to avoid angering the adults of Liang State, does it matter sooner or later? Even if Chunjin is not asked to leave now, and then follow him into the deep palace, will it be more comfortable than this? Pursing her lips, with a glimmer of hope, Chen Lihua asked, "Then when will she send it back, did Liang Ren say it?" ”

The fat official was shocked: "How can I send it back this time?" I came here this time to tell the princess, let's rest here for five days, there is a lack of a maid, I have sent an attendant to Wuwei City to quickly elect two lovers to come and replenish. Thinking of something, he added, "Even if the selected nobles from the border city are most likely not to understand the rules of the palace, and when the time comes, they will have to trouble His Highness to teach them more, otherwise they will anger the Emperor of Daliang at that time, and it will not be beautiful." ”

Chen Lihua responded weakly, "Got it." There was no sound, and the fat official thought that Her Royal Highness the princess had agreed, and hurriedly continued to arrange the camping matter, the original plan was to continue to move forward and go straight to the imperial capital, but because of the willfulness of the commander of the Liang Kingdom, he now wants to rest here for five days, waiting for the arrival of the new noble girl, temporarily camping, and many things are still waiting for him to arrange.

In the carriage, Chen Lihua bit her wrist and wept silently. Of course, she knew that Chunjin would not be voluntary, but what could she do if she knew? When the dust of the times falls on a person, it is a weight that everyone cannot bear. Everything is for the sake of Dajin, Chen Lihua thought so desperately, and only by thinking like this can Chen Lihua feel better.

Chen Lihua, who was drooping, looked up for a handkerchief, but suddenly found that a white cloth had been floating in the air for some time, and a line of shiny words "You" was written in blood on it...... Want to know what it means to be alive? ”