Chapter 35: The Sacrificial Stove
Surrounded by Yin Linxi's black-clothed guards, the lavishly decorated carriage took only half a day to reach Xianyu's Gancheng.
The strength of my feet was staggering, and I pinched my fingers and calculated that if I continued at this speed, I would probably be able to reach Xianyu Castle in less than two days.
However, it is good to be fast, but the fatigue of the past few days has already made me very tired, and if I want to continue on the road, I am afraid...
I secretly looked at Yin Linxi, who was calm and relaxed beside me, and was thinking about how to talk to him about staying in Gancheng for one night, when the guy shouted out unhurriedly.
"Stop!"
I heard the neighing of horses outside, and the carriage stopped steadily.
Yin Linxi bowed his body and went out, opened the curtain and stretched out his hand to me, "Come here!" ”
Seeing that he was like a puppy, I glanced at him angrily, and dropped a palm on his palm, "I can do it myself!" ”
With that, I slammed open the curtain of the carriage and jumped to the ground.
It's not a big move, it's just that I've been a little weak lately, and I've been dizzy for a while when I jumped off.
Seeing this, Yin Linxi hurriedly held my hand, "Are you okay?" ”
I rubbed my eyebrows and shook my head at him when the dizziness had gotten a little better.
"Where are we going?"
Speaking of this, Yin Linxi's originally upright face suddenly raised a touch of unnaturalness,
"Prince Ben is tired and wants to stay in Gancheng for a night."
Is it?
I paused to rub my eyebrows, raised my eyelids and looked at Yin Linxi, only to see that he was looking away with a pretended excitement on his face.
At this moment, a black-clothed guard came running from not far away, knelt down and presented him with two keys with house cards.
"Your Highness, the inn has been arranged, just ahead."
Yin Linxi withdrew his gaze fixed on the distance, took the key from the guard's hand, and took a closer look before answering from his nose, "Hmm." ”
He looked at me again and asked, "Do you want to live in Hanlian or peony?" ”
"Huh?"
Hanlian? Peony? Is he going to take me to Hualou?
Yin Linxi saw that I didn't understand much, so he shook the house card key in his hand, looked at me and said, "Which one to choose?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and when I realized that Hanlian and Peony were the nicknames for the inn room, my face was hot, and I raised my hand and pointed to his right hand, "Hanlian." ”
"Han Lian..." I saw Yin Linxi's lips muttering with a smile in his eyes, and suddenly took my hand, "Okay, then you will live in Peony." ”
"Huh?" What does that mean?
I didn't have any requirements for where to live, but what he did made me feel like I was being played, which I could never accept.
So I shook off his hand and glared angrily at the underwhelming face, "I just said Hanlian." ”
"That's right," Yin Linxi winked innocently, and took the opportunity to grab my hand again, "I just asked you to choose my residence, and the rest is of course yours." ”
"Huh?" I was angry, and when I thought back to the conversation just now, what he said seemed to have a little bit of truth.
Although I am not ashamed of this kind of despicable villain, but I have no choice but to step into the wolf's den with both feet, where can I care about picking and choosing?
So when Yin Linxi took my hand and followed by a large group of people in black clothes passing through the market in a grand manner, we finally succeeded in attracting the onlookers of the streets and alleys.
I just felt the air around me cool down a few degrees.
Then, after an eerie silence, people began to talk about us, and most of the women threw inexplicable indignant glances at me.
To be honest, in this predicament, I really want to dig a big pit and bury myself.
Looking at the people looking at Yin Linxi, the expression between the eyebrows and eyes in the painting did not change at all, but I smiled embarrassedly...
Hurriedly shook off his hand and waved his hand at the women who looked at me with resentment, "You misunderstood, I... I didn't know him at all! ”
After all, I seemed to have fled into the inn as fast as I could.
After hiding for a while, he waited for the crowd to disperse a little bit, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're slipping away so fast." Yin Linxi stepped into the door, glanced at me with a cool swish, and then pressed the room key on my head.
"Go up and tidy up and come down again."
Get down? What do you do down? I held the key in my hand and looked at him suspiciously.
And Yin Linxi didn't speak again, but went upstairs accompanied by a few guards.
…
Soon, night came.
After a comfortable bath, I changed out of the feather yarn wedding dress during the day, and went downstairs with only a plain white skirt.
I thought that Yin Linxi called me something, but when I went downstairs, I saw him sitting alone in front of the desk, drinking very comfortably.
When he saw that I was down, he moved to the side, patted the vacated spot and motioned for me to sit down.
Seeing this, I was stunned for a moment, so I simply didn't be polite to him and sat down.
"Tell me, what's the matter with me?"
Yin Linxi was not in a hurry to speak, but put the wine jug in front of me.
"What? Do you want to get me drunk and then have bad intentions? I looked at his sparkling eyes and stepped back vigilantly.
Unexpectedly, he wrapped his long arms around me and took me straight into his arms, and said in an extremely ambiguous tone in my ear, "You are my crown princess, even if I have any intentions, I have no choice but to do it!" ”
"You!" I pushed him away.
Yin Linxi laughed stupidly, and there was a little unpredictable look in Langxing's eyes, "Do you know that today is the New Year of the Sacrifice Stove?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, looked at the glass texture of the wine jug on the case, and suddenly realized, no wonder he was drinking here, it turned out that today is a sacrificial stove.
Looking back on the past, at this time, my father always liked to call the royal brothers in the palace for a drink, and sometimes he would call me on a whim.
However, I always found it troublesome at that time, and it was an occasion where a group of men sat together and drank together, so I never went there once.
Now that I'm going to marry into Xianyu, I think back to the beginning when I was so ignorant, I'm afraid I won't have this opportunity again.
Unable to help but feel bitter in my heart, I raised my hand and poured myself a glass from the flask.
Another stream of brains poured into his mouth.
And I only cared about drinking to drown my sorrows, but I forgot that I was not strong enough to drink.
With a glass of wine, I only felt a rush of irritation between my lips and teeth, like a raging fire, and the uncomfortable feeling went straight to my throat.
Then, in Yin Linxi's surprised gaze, the inn began to spin around, and I looked at him and was stunned from one to two.
Just like when I first saw him...
"Yin Linxi! You big idiot! I staggered to my feet, and with the help of the wine I put one leg on the stool, and almost lost one of them.
He hurriedly hugged me, "Are you okay?" ”
I looked down at his beautiful face and smiled, "Are you okay?" Of course I can! ”
I waved his hand away and staggered to the door.
"Where?" Yin Linxi took my hand behind him, but I just looked at the bustling night scene of Gancheng outside the window at this time, and suddenly stood still.
"Where can I go? I'm your man. I smiled silently.
But the strange thing is that the bustling night scene of Gancheng is obviously in front of me, but I feel that this winter night is very quiet and cold, only the occasional gust of wind blows... Rolling up the withered fallen leaves on the ground rustled, and it was unbearable.
At this time, the dim lights of the inn stretched Yin Linxi's figure very long.
After being silent for a long time, he gently took my hand, "Go back to your room and rest, you're drunk." ”
"Drunk?" I shook off his hand again and looked at him angrily, "I'm not drunk, I'm sober!" ”
With that, I sat down on the ground, staring blankly at the ground, and muttered, "I'm sober... In the battle of Fengcheng, Zhongli's 30,000 soldiers died tragically under the knife of Wu Guoren and became new ghosts, and the prince's brother was also generous and righteous, and he has not seen his body until now... And all this is my fault, if I hadn't broken the taboo that women are not allowed to enter the barracks, they would not have been abandoned by God, and they would not have ended up in such a tragic end! It's all me! ”
My tears were dripping to the ground before I knew it.
Yin Linxi walked over softly but didn't speak, but reached out and hugged me into his arms.
I leaned on his chest and sniffed the faint smell of wine on his body, and my tired heart finally let go of all its defenses in an instant, leaving only the sadness that was about to drown itself, roaring inwardly in an attempt to break through my suppression.
I bit my lower lip so hard...
As if he saw my emotions, Yin Linxi gently patted me on the back and said, "It's not your fault that all this is all this, it's their glory to be able to die on the battlefield as a soldier of a country, not to mention... Someone else holds the butcher's knife! Don't put all the guilt and pain on yourself. ”
Sadness burst the embankment, and the corners of my skirt that I had been holding on to suddenly loosened, and the next second I was already crying like a child.
In fact, how could I ever have thought of showing my vulnerability in front of anyone? If it weren't for today's glass of wine, I'm afraid I would have brought these words in my heart into the coffin.
But after thinking about it, why did I say this in front of Yin Linxi? Is it just because you've drunk?
After a long time, I had no strength to cry before I pushed Yin Linxi away and wiped my swollen eyes, "Thank you today." ”
"What?"
I knew he was asking knowingly, and I didn't poke him out, I just looked at the flask on the case, "I know you specially wanted me to drink to vent through the sacrificial stove, thank you." ”
"Is that all?" As soon as Yin Linxi corrected his expression, he suddenly pulled my hair and put it in his hand to play, "I've done a lot for my husband!" ”
I frowned twice, looked at someone who was about to open a dye shop just after giving some color, pulled the hair out of his hand, and said angrily, "Before the big ceremony, we can't be considered husband and wife." ”
"Oh?" Yin Linxi raised his eyebrows, his expression was calm, "So, are you planning to hold a big ceremony with me?" ”
Isn't this nonsense? If it weren't for the borrowing of troops...
I was angry and planned to just go back to my room to rest and stop talking nonsense with him.
But it wasn't until I stood up that I realized that the strength of the wine had not passed at all.
So as my feet softened, I fell back into Yin Linxi's arms with no backbone.
"The crown princess is reluctant to me?"
The eyes above my head that flickered like obsidian were calm, my long eyelashes were like two folding fans, and my lips were not stained red under the bridge of my nose with a wicked smile, approaching me...
This... It's to...
Forgot to breathe, just stared blankly at the face that was getting closer and closer, and suddenly recalled the kiss in Yongtai Palace.
When his face turned red, he suddenly reached out and hugged me horizontally.
He teased me again, "What? Why is the crown princess so red? Did you think of something evil? ”
When I was told the matter, I suddenly coughed, and in order not to let him see my weak heart, I began to struggle indiscriminately.
provoked Yin Linxi to smile bitterly, "I said, do you have to be so lively every time?" ”
It's not because of you!
I glanced away angrily, and finally buried my face in my chest, and let him send me back to "Peony" without saying a word.