Chapter 25: The Exile
In the dry desert, there was a frenzied wind and sand everywhere, and a small group of camels slowly moved forward, and the people on the camels looked back from time to time.
At the very end of the procession, a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years of age, with her hands bound and shackled on her feet, with her lips cracked and her ragged clothes that barely covered her body covered with yellow sand, staggered step by step under the control of the camel.
She could not fall, for if she fell, she would be dragged by a camel, and sooner or later her blood would be sucked dry by the desert.
The man on the camel let out a sneer, and said in a charity tone: "Princess Huayang, if you ask me, how about I be merciful and reward you with saliva?"
Someone immediately said: "Lord Zhou, she has been deprived of her title, and now she is even more lowly than those untouchables, how can such a pariah be worthy of the title of princess." Then they all burst into laughter.
Lord Zhou is the princess who escorted the murder of her father and mother, the queen of Nanqi is famous, there is only this one princess under her knees, the eldest princess is a very high status, she was given the title Huayang at the beginning of her birth, and she was raised by Queen Deshun to be smart and generous, and she was originally a collection of thousands of favors.
Unexpectedly, a major event happened that shocked the whole country.
A month ago, the Southern Qi Imperial Palace.
Huayang was controlled by the palace people, and watched as a dagger stabbed into the body of the queen mother, and blood gushed out uncontrollably.
She remembered that face, Concubine Fu turned the dagger with a hideous face, and her scarlet lips spat out a few words: "Go die!" ”
But she saw that the queen mother was smiling, and said to her gently, her voice intermittent: "Hua'er...... Don't be afraid, live for your mother. ”
Two lines of blood and tears were left on the queen mother's face, all the attachment turned into nothing, and finally the eyes slowly lost their luster.
Huayang bit his lip, his mouth was full of the smell of blood, and he roared with exhaustion: "Queen Mother-"
Then this is just the beginning, the whole country began to spread that Princess Huayang killed her mother and killed her father, fortunately the emperor was rescued by the concubine Niangniang, but the queen became the soul of Princess Nanyang.
Immediately, it was rumored that the former queen's foreign family colluded with the Northern Zhou Dynasty to rebel.
On that day, more than 130 members of my grandfather's family knelt at the execution ground.
She was prostrate on the ground, and Concubine Fu bent down slightly and pinched her chin: "You keep my eyes open and watch, they are all going to die." ”
Huayang's lips were blocked, he made a broken sound, shook his head desperately, and stared at the execution ground with his eyes.
Finally, the executioner was executed, and more than 130 people died.
Suddenly, a lot of voices buzzed in my head.
"Hua'er, practice boxing with me, your body is too delicate." It was the voice of the third brother.
"Hua'er Hua'er, grandmother said to ask me to discipline my grandmother, I can't stand it, you have to help me escape." It's the fourth sister.
"Sister Hua, I want to eat osmanthus crisp and rock sugar gourd, can you take me out secretly." The one with a milky body and clever eyes is the sixth sister.
There is also the grandmother who always loves to hold herself in her arms and says: "Hua girl, your grandfather was a majestic ...... grandfather".
There are also eldest uncles, eldest aunts, and second uncles......
Faces passed in front of them, such vivid faces, but just now, they were all dead?
Blood stained the execution ground, Concubine Fu looked at her appearance and said, "Don't worry, you are going to die too, you have a better place to go." ”
The father once praised the Fu Guifei as a hibiscus out of the water, not dyed or demonic, and gave the word "Fu", but now it seems to be an out-and-out cannibal flower.
Huayang's eyes are full of bloodshots, a person of great compassion, he can't shed tears, if he still can't understand at this moment, this is the handiwork of his father, and she has lost the reputation of a talented woman.
"Hua'er will be a talented woman in the future." The king of Nanqi touched his head and looked at him lovingly.
Suddenly, that face shattered, Hua Yang closed her eyes, her eyes were scarlet, her heart was anxious, and she gushed out a mouthful of fishy sweetness, but she suddenly woke up.
Why still can't he calm down, at this moment in the desert, she can't fall into a daze, at this time he only has one thing to do, that is, to survive.
A few people didn't get any response for a long time, but they didn't know that Huayang's thoughts were not here, and a few people scolded, mixed with the jingling bells of camels and the sound of wind and sand, and gradually the sound of wind and sand covered the man's voice.
The camel suddenly stopped, knelt down on its knees, and lay down on the spot, and the man's scolding stopped abruptly, replaced by an exclamation: "It's a sandstorm, get behind the camel." ”
More than a dozen people on the hump quickly came down, took their luggage in their arms, and lay on the back of the camel to avoid being buried by the wind and sand.
At this time, no one paid attention to the little girl, Huayang had lost his strength, fought the last bit of strength, climbed to the back of the camel, at this time the hurricane has blown up thousands of feet of yellow sand, there is no obstacle on the unobstructed flat land, the raging wind swept over, and in an instant this group of people was also covered by the yellow sand, the storm lasted for nearly an hour, and the wind and sand in the air were still showing the aftermath of the storm.
"Damn ......," a low curse was heard, and a pile of sand and dust broke and bulged, burrowing a head in an attempt to get up from the yellow sand.
The camels also moved, slowly stood up, and a group of prostrate men and horses also got up one after another, patting the yellow sand on their bodies.
That week, the lord was surrounded by a layer of low air pressure, if it wasn't for the noble concubine Niangniang's promise to be added to the official after the matter was completed, why would he come to this desert for a trip.
This Huayang Duke was mainly sent to the emperor to refine the Longevity Pill, but that group of old men wanted to study it in this desert.
It is said that the elixir refined from the daughter's body can make the parents immortal, and the refining method of the elixir is very tragic, and the little daughter who is still a virgin should be thrown into the furnace to refine it and then integrate it into the elixir.
Lord Zhou shuddered, it was not that she sympathized with this Huayang princess, but this method was too creepy, although this alchemist had already existed, many years had passed, and the real elixir had still not been researched, and now as the princess of the first experiment, I am afraid that there is another reason.
Princess Huayang occupied the position of the eldest princess as soon as she was born, and she suppressed Princess Derong, the daughter of the concubine, so that she would be hated, and let her die in such a tragic way, with no bones left, in the position of Princess Derong.
I saw that Lord Zhou walked to the back of the camel, took out Huayang, who couldn't afford to struggle, and threw her on the sand, the feeling of insulting the princess of a country made his anger temporarily calm, and he saw that Huayang was not dead, and sneered: "It's time to go on the road."
Huayang lowered her eyebrows and still didn't say a word, the form was not optimistic for her, she had to swallow her anger at this time, she wanted to run away at night, but the desert was too big to escape is also a dead end, it is better to wait.
finally got up from the ground, and was trampled on the ground by another man, which made the group laugh.
They were sent to the desert in this bad weather to escort Huayang, and all the grievances of not having a beautiful wife and concubine and fine clothes and food were sprinkled on Huayang, and humiliating Huayang was the only pleasure on the way. If it weren't for the fact that the superiors explained that they wanted to make a virgin alchemy, a few people looked at them with ill intentions, but they really wanted to taste the princess of this country.
Finally laughed enough, Lord Zhou ordered to leave: "Don't kill people, it's not easy to explain from above, hand over people as soon as possible, and return to Beijing as soon as possible."
"No." The group was the only one who looked at Lord Zhou and replied in unison. Anyway, I have humiliated Huayang, and it is the right way to send her on the road earlier. Turned over and climbed onto the camel, and dragged Huayang on the road with a clanging clang.
Hua Yang's eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness, this rope has been tied to her for a few days, she will definitely let them untie her with their own hands, just riding the wind and sand from the little minion's burden to find a little food, but only touched two flints.
The water they gave her promised that she would not die of thirst, and as for the food, it had been a rancid meal since ten days ago, and Huayang knew that she had to maintain her strength, and whenever they gave her a dry cake wrapped in mud and sand, she would gnaw it clean.
The desert sun was very scorching, and just when Huayang thought he was going to fall, night fell, and suddenly someone called out in surprise, "Look, my lord, what's ahead?" ”
Lord Zhou's stiff face also showed a hint of a smile: "Luck, it's an oasis, you can have a good rest tonight."
Huayang heard that his eyes were slightly cold, and the oasis was a good place to go.