Chapter 40: Fighting for the Wind
After more than ten days of such life, the weather gradually became warmer, during which I heard rumors that the King of Joy had taken a few more concubines and hired a new personal guard, and a small sense of loss surrounded my heart.
I guess he really forgot about it, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to go without coming to see me for so many days, and he wouldn't have been able to do those things.
I looked at the bright sun in the sky, maybe it was too dazzling, and the sour feeling made my eyes gradually misty. I lowered my head, and a drop of water dripped into the basin on the ground, creating a ripple.
Thinking back to the past, I suddenly found that my mind was full of his shadow, smile, anger, seriousness, excitement, worry, every expression was clearly imprinted in my mind, lingering.
"Ah Yuan, Ah Yuan!" The hurried shout came into my ears, and I hurriedly raised the back of my hand and wiped it on my face, turned to look at the person with a smile, and said, "Uncle Qin, what's the matter?" ”
"Quick, lead the horse and follow me to see the prince!"
"Oh, good." I agreed, and then from the stable brought out a jujube red horse exclusive to the King of Ease, I heard that the horse came from the Western Regions to pay tribute, and there was only one emperor and one from him in the whole dynasty, which shows how precious this horse is.
I led the horse and followed Uncle Qin to the gate of the palace. I saw a richly decorated carriage parked next to the stone lion at the gate of the palace, but in a moment the king of Xiaoyao walked out of it with a woman in his arms, his eyes were gentle, very considerate to protect the woman in his arms, and his affectionate eyes made my heart feel sour.
She must have been his new wife. I watched quietly as he lifted the woman into the delicate carriage and kissed her on the cheek before walking over to me.
"Ziling, aren't you going to ride the carriage?" The soft voice came into my ears, and I couldn't help but look back again, and the delicate face under the curtain was full of reluctance, as if I had been greatly wronged, and it was really lovely.
"The carriage is small, and the king is tall, I'm afraid of squeezing you, good." The King of Joy turned his head and smiled at her gently, then walked over and lingered with her before letting go of her contentedly.
I turned around him just as he was about to turn around, and served him on his horse as if he didn't know anything, and then walked back with a stride.
"Did the king let you go?" A familiar voice came, and I looked up at him and said with a smile: "What else does the prince command?" ”
"Didn't you see that this king didn't bring guards today?" As soon as he said this, I really noticed that there was no one with me today except a little man who drove a carriage, and immediately understood what he meant, and followed him with my head bowed.
Along the way, the horses' hooves flew and brought up dust, choking me to open my eyes. I worked hard and did a lot of hard work to catch up.
After leaving the city gate and walking nearly thirty miles west, he stopped, turned over and stepped off his horse, and walked briskly to the carriage behind.
The curtain was lifted, and the beauty was naturally carried out of the carriage. They walked in the front, and I followed slowly behind, and everywhere I saw was a prosperous and gorgeous place, and the smell of flowers wafted faintly, pleasing to the eye.
Stepping through the flowers, it is a natural stone staircase, probably because it has just rained here a few days ago, the road is still a little slippery, the king of freedom led the beauty step by step slowly climbed up, I also carried the robe and looked down at the road under my feet, careful not to let myself slip.
Half an hour later, when we finally stepped on the last stone step, we saw that there were already four people sitting in the pavilion at the top of the mountain, and when they saw us coming, they greeted us one after another.
"The old minister greets the prince." The old man's voice made me raise my head, and I saw the emperor, Shen Yu, a man in his forties, and Miss Zhu, who I hadn't seen for many days, standing in front of me.
I saw that several of them were wearing civilian clothes today, and that Miss Zhu was even thinner than before, her face instantly turned pale after seeing us, and her hands couldn't help but hold tightly.
I looked at them quietly, my eyes were inadvertently caught by Shen Yu, he turned his head to me and squeezed his eyebrows, his beautiful lips moved slightly, I didn't understand what he wanted to tell me, and I didn't want to ignore him, I lowered my head and pretended not to see, my eyes just stared straight at the ground.
While I was in a daze, they were already seated, but they didn't speak. I couldn't help but look up curiously, and saw that their eyes were all staring at me, Shen Yu's worry, the emperor's anger, the indifference of the king and the beauty in his arms, and the gloating of Miss Zhu and the middle-aged man.
I didn't think I had done anything to make them look good, so I just curled the corners of my mouth at them and continued to lower my head.
It's just that I haven't stood for a second, and a violent roar really startled me: "What a bold minion, I don't even kneel when I see me!" ”
After he said this, I realized that I had made a great mistake, and that the rules in front of the King of Joy had been completely forgotten by me, and I really didn't adapt to life here.
"The villain deserves to die, please forgive the emperor!" I quickly knelt down, lowered my head and said carefully.
"Brother Ling, this is the good slave you taught?" The emperor still refused to let me go, and after a while I saw a pair of black-backed gold-rimmed cloth boots come to me, and the dragon motif on them was very delicately embroidered, shining with dazzling golden light.
I didn't hear the sound of the Easy King's reply, but my face was lifted, and I saw the Emperor's eyes shining with meaningful inquiry, and that imperceptible murderous aura, and my breathing suddenly became hasty.
I think I've only met him twice, why is his murderous intent on me so obvious, and I haven't offended him except for being rude, is it possible that his heart is only so small?
I looked at him for a moment, carefully collected my thoughts, and lowered my eyes. I felt his cool fingers rubbing against my chin, and I didn't know if he was talking to himself, or to the people behind me, "Look at this thin skin and tender flesh." He paused, leaned forward to my ear, and whispered, "Could it be that Brother Ling will like you?" ”
It turned out to be for this! I instantly understood that the emperor in front of me had such thoughts about his own brother! I tilted my head to the side, knowing that he had absolutely no good intentions when he told me about this, so I could only pretend to be panicked and said loudly: "The slave deserves to die, please forgive the slave for his rudeness." ”
"Did I say I would punish you for your sins?" He ignored my pleas for mercy and put my chin in his hand again, and his fingers were already slightly forced, and it hurt me terribly.