Chapter Ninety-Six: Harmony (II)
"Lin, you woman who doesn't know what to do!" Behind him was Wonyeol's angry roar. Lin Yuan didn't even look back, just looked at Tuoba Hong intently, and begged: "The emperor rescued the concubine, the concubine is very afraid, and the concubine really doesn't have the courage to leave." There is the Heishui River ahead, and if the concubine can't turn back today, she can only commit suicide by throwing herself into the water. ”
The wind howled in the night of Beisai, and the flames of the pine branches weakened, and the heavy snow showed no sign of stopping. Lin Yuan knelt in the snow with her knees, shivering from the cold, and her heart was even more tormented. Even if he can pick up his life and go back to Qin this time, it is estimated that it will be difficult to turn over in his future life. Tuoba Hong is the emperor who owns the world, how can he tolerate her being coveted by other men, although she has done nothing wrong.
She may be deposed, belittled, claustrophobic for the rest of her life, or taken advantage of by former enemies such as Concubine Xiang. Life is gloomy......
"You get up." While thinking wildly, a calm male voice seemed to warm Lin Yuan's frozen body. Lin Yuan looked up in surprise: "Your Majesty, concubine ......" Before she finished speaking, someone next to her came over to help her up. Yao Fusheng lowered his head, but his voice was loud: "The little master is still sick, how can he go out of the city to ride a horse to play, the emperor is very worried!" The emperor instructed the little lord to return to the palace immediately to rest......"
Yuan Lie listened to it next to him and almost vomited blood in anger, he rushed forward and grabbed Lin Yuan's sleeve with one hand, and with great strength, Lin Yuan fell to the ground with great strength. Lin Yuan screamed: "Let go!" Thou tyrannical king! Believe it or not, I'm going to die here right now! She was pulled by Yuan Lie on one sleeve, and with the other hand, she pulled off the sapphire on her head and pointed at her neck: "I am the imperial concubine of Daqin, you think I will submit to you!" ”
has been forced to this point, life and death are only on the line! Lin Yuan understood that as long as he touched his hand tonight and lost Tuoba Hong's face in public, the only thing waiting for her after returning to the palace was death!
She tore her sleeve alive, and under her scolding, Won Yeol's anger was like that of a lion. He jumped forward and tried to pull her other hand again, but fortunately, the soldiers around him stopped him and whispered something, and he finally stopped his steps and glared at Tuoba Hong and the others with his fists. Where did Lin Yuan dare to face him, he hurriedly got up and hid in the small sedan chair when he followed the palace people, the golden hairpin in his hand fell to the ground in a hurry, but there was already a faint blood stain gushing out of his neck.
The surrounding people are all serving in the Qin Palace, and they are also at ease.
Yuan Lie's expression was fierce, until Lin Yuan hid in the sedan chair, and his gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the curtain. He looked at Tuoba Hong again, and actually sneered and said, "The only thing that this king is interested in is her." As for your emperor, this king is not rare. He said the order: "The woman in the red sedan chair is too lazy to look at it, and carries it back to the west tent as a cheap concubine." ”
No matter how presumptuous Yuan Lie was, he didn't dare to return the amiable emperor, but how to settle it after accepting it, Tuoba Hong had no right to put his beak. Yuan Lie couldn't get Lin Yuan anymore, and he was very angry in his heart, so he directly bowed his hand to Tuoba Hong, turned around and left. Later, the palanquin of Emperor Wenzhuang stopped alone at the junction of the two countries.
Lin Yuan didn't know what the fate of this poor princess would be, and at the same time, she couldn't control her own fate.
According to Tuoba Hong's instructions, Lin Yuan was sent back to the palace first. The night in the northwest Gobi is long and gloomy, the wind and snow are bleak when you leave the city, the road ahead is dark, and when you return to the city, your eyes are still dark, and you can't see a trace of light.
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The matter of Emperor Wenzhuang's peace with the Great Qin Wenzhuang was announced to the world, and the Mongol king also left the Zhulu enclosure three days later and returned home. As for Lin Yuan, because the last person to kiss was not her, this matter was naturally covered up, and no one would suspect anything.
The people in the palace only knew that Lin Yuan was seriously ill inexplicably, and they didn't say what the illness was, but they didn't implicate the matter with the Mongolian king. In fact, this kind of inexplicable violent illness is too common in the palace, which concubine angered the dragon scales, and it was inconvenient for the royal family to announce it to the outside world, so this concubine couldn't afford to be sick. Even many times the death is disguised as a death.
And Lin Yuan's illness is far away. Until dozens of days later, when the New Year was approaching, when the emperor led a large number of princes and nobles back to the capital, she was still too sick to get up.
She followed at the back of the line in a small sedan chair accompanied by four grandmothers and twelve palace maids. Concubine Wen and the others could see it clearly, saying that the emperor sent someone from the front of the palace to serve her, and this posture was simply imprisonment. It seems that this favored Hui Guiyi really offended the emperor a lot.
The people serving in the sedan chair are still a few old people in the first snow and the first peach. Chu Tao twisted a hot handkerchief to wipe Lin Yuan's face, and asked in a trembling whisper, "Little master, let's ...... When is it a head! ”
Lin Yuan kept her eyes closed and didn't speak all the way, and Chu Tao suspected that she was stupid. She grabbed her master's wrist and shook it twice, one wall shed tears and the other wall said: "Little master, you must think of a way, if it goes on like this, the emperor has really abandoned the little master, what can we do." As he spoke, he felt that his life was unlucky, and he couldn't help crying even more fiercely: "The little master hasn't done anything wrong......"
"That's enough, don't bother the little master anymore." Hatsuyuki's temper is also a little bad. She sighed and waited for Lin Yuan to freshen up, the hair in her hand was as smooth as satin, but she didn't know who would come to see such a heavenly appearance.
Chu Xue is also anxious now, but he can't think of any way. After a while, he comforted Lin Yuan and said, "Little Lord look away, at least we are back, much better than that poor Emperor Wenzhuang." ”
In the hearts of all the women of the Qin State, the emperor who is close to the foreign country is the most miserable. But in fact, there is no need to worry about the fate of Wenzhuang - the third daughter of Emperor Kangjing of Great Qin, Kangyi Wenzhuang Dachang Emperor, married the Mongolian Khan at the age of sixteen, was crowned the Golden Horde at the age of nineteen, and at the age of twenty-five, he established his youngest son Hudun Xie as the king, becoming the youngest regent queen mother in Mongolian history. Of course, that's all for later.
Many years later, Lin Yuan would have wondered if she had not chosen to return to Qin at that time, would there be a broader world.
Due to the snow and ice blocking the mountain, the speed of the royal car coming back is far less than when it went up. At dusk, Fang traveled to the boundary of Youzhou, and the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, Liu, saw that it was not early, and settled down in the nearest post station to rest.
Youzhou is an important town in the north of the Qin State, and has always been a battleground for soldiers, so the post station here has also been built into a luxurious mansion, which is specially prepared for the generals and even the emperors who are in charge of the expedition.
Lin Yuan's position was still there, and the four grandmothers took her to the main house in the back hall to settle down, not freezing her or starving her. A group of masters and servants went to bed quietly, and at midnight they were suddenly disturbed by a knock on the door, and when they opened the door, they saw two imperial attendants. Chu Xue and Chu Tao were so frightened that their faces turned pale, at this time, the emperor sent someone over, didn't he want to die!
No one in the room dared to speak, and Lin Yuan calmly put on a coat and came out. The two chamberlains were expressionless and said calmly: "The emperor summoned the little master of Guiyi. ”
Lin Yuan was not afraid and followed. The candle flame in Tuoba Hong's house was still on, and a man stood by the window with his hands in his hands under the light, and he didn't know why he didn't sleep in the middle of the night.
"You've come to the bottom of it." The moment the door opened, Tuoba Hong spoke coldly.
Lin Yuan lowered his hand and said: "Even if the emperor is here to take the life of the concubine, the concubine will come." ”
Tuoba Hong seemed to smile, turned around and pinched Lin Yuan's jaw with one hand, and looked at her with a fierce expression: "Lin Yuan, I thought you were a good woman, but I didn't expect to attract bees and butterflies!" ”
"Concubines deserve death."
"You deserve to die. The King of Mongolia is very affectionate to you! And a life-saving grace? Scold! ”
"Your Majesty, there are no concubines, everything is just wishful thinking on the part of the Mongolian king......" Lin Yuan had already used the hearth fire with tears in her eyes, but she also knew that it would not work at this time.
"Even so, it's your immorality!" Tuoba Hong couldn't allow her to excuse himself. In this day and age, as long as a woman has a reputation for uncleanness, regardless of whether she has done anything or not, the world will think that she is wrong, and even Buddhism has a similar explanation. This is just a concept, and Tuoba Hiroshi at this time obviously thinks so.
"Yes, all the mistakes are the concubine's fault......" Lin Yuan lowered her head, and her jaw was already pinched by the other party.
Tuoba Hong sneered and shook off his hand, then strode out of the threshold and left with his sleeves up, ignoring Lin Yuan again.
The night is as cold as water, and the cold air on this emperor's body is as cold as a thousand years of cold pools. Lin Yuan knew that if he was allowed to leave like this today, there would be no doubt that he would be waiting for him. She chased out with her skirt, ignoring the etiquette of the concubine and running behind Tuoba Hong, and said mournfully: "Since the emperor is annoyed with the concubine, he will give death to him personally!" If the concubine lives simply, it will also lose the emperor's face, so it is better to die......"
The man's steps in front of him were so big, his figure was burly but resolute, Lin Yuan had to trot to keep up, and he was even more desperate in his heart. She gritted her teeth, stepped forward and grabbed the emperor's sleeve with one hand, and was not afraid of offending the emperor, and said secretly with hatred in her heart: If she is abandoned by the emperor, she doesn't know how miserable it will be in this life. Tuoba Hong, you stinky man, I am loyal to you, and I don't think about the king of Mongolia, what do you want me to do!
Tuoba Hong didn't expect this woman to be so bold, but he was the emperor, and he was forcibly pulled by her...... He turned around to brush the woman's hand away, but the moment he turned around, he heard a slight noise coming through the air, with a cold crisis. Then he felt the hot liquid spray on his cheeks, and the woman in front of him collapsed on top of him.
"Yuan'er! There are assassins, come on......"
In the silent night sky, only the screams of men in astonishment remained.