In February, Boduange took me to see my brother Jimo as agreed.

At the beginning of February, I actually got my brother's token from Boduange, and I didn't disbelieve him, but he still brought back the voucher to reassure me.

"Liangzhou is too dangerous, he can't come here." Boduange said.

I don't understand, I've lived here for so long, and I don't find any danger, only a few of them, who scare me every day and don't let me run out.

"Then my brother doesn't come to Liangzhou, how can I see him?"

"Go to the dye."

Dyeing is just south of Lidui, I think about going back to see my brother, and I can go to Lidui to see Zhudong, killing two birds with one stone.

I tied my brother's Buddhist beads to my wrist, turned them one by one, and left the Southern Wei Dynasty for more than a year, I think about them, sometimes my heart will throb when I think about it, since I was a child, I haven't left them for so long.

It takes seven or eight days from Liangzhou to Dyeing, I don't want His Highness to know that my brother has come to Donghu, although I treat her as a sister and respect her to protect her, but this does not mean that I will play with my brother's life and death at will, the situation in the palace is changing rapidly, and I can't let my brother have any accidents.

Boduange made a good excuse, he said that when the time came, he could take me to the winter hunting grounds of the Donghu royal family.

Before Your Highness and I could lie, this trouble was solved.

A few days before I was about to depart, His Royal Highness received a reply about the Southern Wei Dynasty, and His Royal Highness showed the letter to the two of us, saying that a messenger would secretly bring the princess back to the Southern Wei Dynasty on a certain day.

This letter came at a timely time, and we could not understand at first why the Southern Wei Dynasty ignored us as if they had not received the letter.

According to the letter, the Southern Wei Dynasty broke out in the palace rebellion a month after the princess's marriage, the third son of the emperor tried to usurp power and seize the throne, His Majesty was seriously injured, and fled the capital under the protection of the Praetorian Guard.

At this time, if the Donghu people knew that Princess Jinglu of the Southern Wei Dynasty would stay in their heart Liangzhou, we would have to leave this place horizontally, or we would become their protons.

Things suddenly became complicated, the royal family seized power, this is not a trivial matter, it can force His Majesty away from Liangzhu, and it is not something that ordinary people can do, I have never known the situation in the DPRK and China, lest my brother be injured in the palace chaos.

Bo Duange was able to contact my brother, he must have known about the situation in the Southern Wei Dynasty for a long time, but he did not reveal a word to us, I am not sure of his plans, and I am worried that he is using our trust to imprison His Highness here.

I was restless.

His Royal Highness, escorted by Jimo Yi and Yushi Chengge, went to Donghu for the ceremonial ceremony, where the envoys of the Southern Wei Dynasty waited to meet the princess, and he wanted to first find out about our accident in Donghu, and then find a way to take us out of here.

His Royal Highness believes in this person very much, he is a close minister of His Majesty, and when His Highness was a child, he would often bring her gadgets outside the palace.

We haven't decided to leave Donghu yet, Your Highness just went to meet with the envoys first to discuss the subsequent arrangements.

I pretended to be cold and coughing, but in fact I wanted to go to see my brother in Dyezhong, and he did not come with the envoys, which means that he left Liangzhu without His Majesty's approval.

I separated from His Royal Highness, and a few days earlier they set off to rush to the ceremony, leaving me alone, I was not very worried about her, there were Yushi Chengge and Jimo Yi to accompany her, with their skills, even if they encountered an accident on the road, they could turn evil into good fortune.

It is a small town rich in kumquats, and when the orange blossoms bloom, the city is full of golden armor.

I waited for my brother all day, and he said that he would come here on the ninth day of the second month.

Since the morning, I have been waiting for him at the inn, and Boduang has been sitting beside me.

There were no guests in the inn, because Boduange had chartered the entire inn.

As the sun began to fall in the afternoon, I was a little anxious, and after hearing about the disaster that happened in the Southern Wei Dynasty, I was always afraid that my brother would be hurt.

We waited until the evening and he still didn't come.

Boduange asked me, "Eat something first?" ”

"I'm not hungry."

"You don't have the strength to speak, and you still say you're not hungry?"

"Wait a little longer." I leaned on the table and said.

And so I waited until late at night, when I heard people banging on the road and beating the night.

"Boduang, isn't he coming?"

"Maybe it's a delay."

"He's not coming." I shook my head.

"Why didn't he come?" All of a sudden, I started crying.

I began to wonder, "Could it be that he was injured because of the palace turmoil?" ”

The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, "It's hard to stop my brother's bleeding, he can't get hurt." ”

"He hasn't written to me, something must have happened."

"My mother didn't write to me either, she won't forget that I'm still outside, it must have happened to her too."

"What to do, what should I do, how can I save them......"

I sat up from my position.

"Why are you going?"

"I'm going to ride back to Southern Wei."

He grabbed me, "Nonsense! ”

"I'm going to find my brother."

Boduange wiped away my tears with the back of his hand and comforted me by saying, "He'll come." ”

"Liar." I cried.

Suddenly a person hovered downstairs, and Boduange instantly pulled me behind him, and before I could wipe away my tears, I heard the man ask, "Your Excellency is a Jimo girl?" ”

"Exactly." I said hurriedly.

Boduange sighed, "Who told you to talk nonsense." ”

"Oh, then I'm not." I said to the man.

He said: "Someone has spent a lot of money to ask me to give you a message, June 12, and we will meet here." ”

"Is it my brother?"

"I don't know if he's your brother or not, but he asked me to tell you," he rubbed his nose and hesitated for a moment to continue, "and if you cry too much, you will have one more eye." ”

I immediately burst into tears and laughed, it was my brother who was right, I couldn't be silent when he smoked my poems, and every time he cried and lost his temper with him, he told me that if I cried too much, a third eye would grow. Once, after I finished crying, my cheeks turned red, and I really thought I was going to have a new eye, and I was shocked, I didn't want to become a three-eyed monster, so I cried even more sadly.

My mother patted my brother on the head, put peppermint cream on me, and told me that it was just a mosquito bite wound and that no new eyes would grow, and that only the three of us knew about it.

I had such a fuss, and I didn't recover after dawn, so Boduange waited for me at the door of the inn to finish washing.

When I got out of the inn, he stretched out his hand to take me into the carriage, and I was surprised to see the carriage, "Didn't we ride horses when we came?" ”

"You still have the strength to ride a horse?" He asked me rhetorically.

"Okay then." I grabbed the wheels and got into the car.

The coachman who drove the horse said, "Master, shall we go from the south, or should we go around the road of Jianqi City?" ”

"Southside."

"Let's not go to see Dong'er?"

"No, no."

I pestered him, "Go, go, I haven't seen her in over two months." ”

He lowered the curtain and said, "Sit down." ”

The curtain was lowered, and I sat down with him and said, "I don't know if she has been cured of chickenpox." ”

He didn't say a word.

"What if her distant relatives don't treat her well, and she gets sick and can't find a way back to Liangzhou?"

Boduange turned his head sideways, opened the curtain on the side to let in the wind, and I looked outside, and there was already a hill, and we went up the mountain road.

"Boduange, let's just make a trip from Liyi? Well? "I pushed his knee.

He opened my paws, "Why do you talk so much every day, and you're not afraid to finish all the words of this life in one day?" ”

I said angrily, "Today has today's words, tomorrow will naturally have tomorrow's words, who can finish the words of a lifetime!" ”

He didn't look at me, but I heard him laugh low.

"Okay, Boduang, let's go-"

An arrow burst in through the window, interrupting my words.

Boduange quickly pushed me away, caught the dark arrow with one hand, turned the bow into his hand, pushed the arrow into the wind, and sent the arrow out of the carriage, my eyes widened, I couldn't believe that someone's martial arts could be so superb.

There was a groan of pain outside the carriage, and someone was knocked down by the arrow.

"There are about twenty people, don't move, stay here."

I was about to say to him, I don't, I have to follow you, and when I think about it, my life is at stake, so don't do anything wrong.

"Okay, I'll stay here."

On a February day, a thin layer of snow fell on the mountain, and this morning there was a little rain on the ground, and the ground was frozen, and Boduang Ge specially asked the driver to slow down as we drove.

I saw that there were some potholes in the ground where the ice and snow had not melted, and I reminded, "Don't fall." ”

"You don't want to come down." He instructed me.

I nodded one after another.

When the curtain was opened, the coachman was dead under the horse, blood was pouring from his neck, the heat quickly faded, and in a blink of an eye it was pitch black underneath him.

He got out of the carriage and asked aloud, "Who is coming?" ”

"Shaopinghu servant."

"What's the matter?"

"The head of the family invited Prince Yuwen to come over to the house."

Boduange said: "Our Donghu royal family and Shaoping Lake have never intersected, so I bother Your Excellency to go back and talk to your family master. ”

"This is not good, the order of the head of the family, we dare not disobey."

He leaped into his sleeve and pulled the whip out of his sleeve.

The tail of the whip twitched the air and made a high-pitched cracking sound reminiscent of the first cannon of the new year, and I covered my ears, my eardrums aching.

Bo Duange fought with them, he had no weapons in his hands, and he took these people's attacks empty-handed, I was quite flustered, he faced these untold schools of thought alone, and the odds of victory were unknown.

Soon I was relieved that Boduang was able to deal with them with ease, unloading their blades without hurting them.

"I have no intention of being an enemy of Shaoping Lake, if Your Excellency insists on entanglement and corpses are scattered all over the place, no one wants to see such a result."

The man saluted respectfully to Boduang, but when he could not beat us, he quickly disappeared from our sight.

The coachman died, and Boduang sat in front to drive the horse.

"Boduang, what's that called...... The head of the Shaoping Lake family, has you taken a fancy to you? ”

He said coldly, "He's a man." ”

"Oh-" I spun a few words.

"Someone can chase this place, our whereabouts have been leaked, and we must return to Liangzhou as soon as possible." He whipped the chariot.

"Then we won't go to Lidu?"

He ignored me, pushed me backhand, and pushed me into the car.

I stopped all the way and didn't speak, and when he saw that I was quiet, he couldn't help asking, "Are you sleepy?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, you told me not to speak." ”

"When have you ever heard me?" He laughed.

"Uh...... It's thinking about my brother. ”

"If he doesn't come, he will be entangled in important things, the pattern of the Southern Wei Dynasty is changing rapidly, and he is also walking on thin ice in the court."

I opened my eyes wide, "How do you know so well?" ”

He did not answer, but concentrated on driving the horse.

I found that the rain master Chengge sometimes spoke frighteningly true, and he said, I don't know him, and I don't know Boduange, and although I don't want to agree with him, I can't change this fact, and I really don't know anything about them.

I sat quietly in the carriage, looking at the figure of Bo Duange outside the carriage, he was only an arm's length away from me, but we seemed to be separated by mountains and rivers.

Zhu Dong once said that these people are not on the same path as us, I didn't think so, but now I find that this is really the case.

Now he is a friend and not an enemy, but no one can say what will happen in the future.

I suddenly asked, "Boduang, are you going to kill me?" ”

He was stunned and stopped his horse, "What a stupid thing!" ”

"If I were your enemy." I assume.

He said, "I'm not going to let you be my enemy." ”

But he didn't, I won't be your enemy.

I had the expectation of the latter sentence in my heart, and I knew that it should not be so.

He didn't answer my question, perhaps, when I became his enemy, I really could die under his sword.

If there is a war between the Southern Wei and the Eastern Hu, as a member of the Southern Wei royal family, if the Southern Wei is defeated, the court ladies will become prisoners of the Eastern Hu people, and I will not be an exception.

I thought too far, as an insignificant lord who was not taken seriously by His Majesty, these things had nothing to do with me.

Whether you win or lose, it's all a man's right to compete.

If Donghu is defeated, how will I face Bo Duange, will he be a corpse on the battlefield or the prince of Donghu who will be imprisoned for the rest of his life?

I suddenly understood that it was not a good thing for us people to meet the Donghu people, as long as the delusion of the king to dominate the rivers and mountains existed, sooner or later, me and Boduange would become enemies, and even if we didn't want to, cruel fate would push us forward.

One of my eyes rested on Boduanger's shoulder, he must have been an invincible general when he started the battle, such a proud man, who would either win the earth-shattering victory or die a heart-wrenching death.

I grabbed the corner of his coat, "Boduang, will we be friends for life?" ”

"Of course." He smiled wryly at me.

The gray sky began to snow again, and our horses stepped on the ground, splashing with black mud.