Chapter 20: Male and Female
The night was getting deeper, the snow was still falling, and the soldiers on guard were covered with snow, like snowmen. Feng Lin stood outside the tent, looking like he wanted to cry without tears.
Xiao Zhu's eyes were slightly closed, silently exercising, the rising heat was faintly visible above her head, and among all the people standing outside, only she did not have snowflakes piling up.
In the prince's tent, Liufan leaned on the cushion, letting the palace maids beat his legs and rub his shoulders, he lazily squinted, as if he was napping, but he didn't lie down and sleep well. When the last drop of dust fell from the sandalwood in the censer, he sat up straight and listened intently.
"Ahem." Xiao Zhu coughed lightly outside the tent, he exhaled, glanced at the palace maids, and lightly ordered: "Let's all go down." β
"Yes." The palace ladies lowered their eyebrows and bowed their heads, and retreated in turn.
Lu Fan took out the "Nanhua Sutra" and flipped through a paragraph, then sat up straight and ran the internal force according to the book, and after a while, he entered the realm of selflessness.
Outside the tent, Xiao Zhu's eyes were fixed on the prince's tent, her lips were tight, her face was solemn, and she seemed to be afraid of missing even the blink of an eye. The snowflakes were still flying, and time passed quietly, until the east was whitening and the candles in the prince's tent were extinguished, and Xiao Zhu's expression eased.
"Miss Xiaozhu! Wind Forest fainted! A soldier came running to report it.
Xiao Zhu raised his eyes and hurriedly ran after the soldier. Luo Lianyi woke up in the tent, hurriedly got up and got dressed, and ran out of the tent.
"Brother Fenglin! Brother Windlin! What happened to Brother Fenglin? She saw Xiao Zhu pick up the wind forest and walk into the tent, and ran in as she called.
The men in the tent hurriedly bowed their heads and quietly retreated, no one dared to look at the future character princess.
"Brother Fenglin!" Luo Lianyi ran to Fenglin and Xiaozhu, squatted down and hugged Fenglin.
"Don't worry, the county lord, he's just frozen, I'll do it for him." After Xiao Zhu finished speaking softly, he sat cross-legged and pinched the pulse of the wind forest with one hand.
Luo Lianyi looked at her, and then at Feng Lin, only to see the ice on Feng Lin's face slowly turn into water, and Feng Lin woke up and turned around.
"Brother Fenglin!" Luo Lianyi hugged him and called.
"County Lord, I'm not dead yet?" The wind forest is like a gossamer.
"Get out!"
Luo Lianyi was just about to answer, a muffled roar frightened her, she looked up, and Liu Fan was already full of anger, standing condescendingly in front of them.
"Please get out! This is not where you came from! Lu Fan said in a muffled voice.
"Didn't you see Brother Feng Lin faint? He has no martial arts, if you want him to be a guard, he will freeze to death sooner or later! Shall I ask you to talk about human nature? Otherwise, if you go outside for a night, what will you try! Pampered parasites, guys who don't know the sufferings of the people! Luo Lianyi stood up and crackled and shouted at Liufan.
"County Lord!" Xiao Zhu had finished his work, jumped up and grabbed her hand.
"Humanity? Parasite? Liufan frowned and stared at Luo Lianyi's face and was silent for a while, and said, "You go out first, a dignified future imperial concubine, don't run around, let alone get so close to men!" β
"You're perverted~ perverted! He's my cousin! Also, since I am the future princess, please use honorifics, don't want you, yours! Luo Lianyi glanced at him, straightened up and said.
Liufan's brows tightened, he raised his hand and clenched his fists, and said coldly: "Please go out!" β
Luo Lianyi turned his head to see that the wind forest was fine, raised his head and "hummed" at Liufan, squeezed past him, and strode out of the tent.
Lu Fan looked at her back, his face complicated.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Fenglin really doesn't have the physique to be a guard, if you stay outside the tent any longer, I'm afraid you will freeze to death." Xiao Zhu came over and whispered.
Liufan's gaze moved to Fenglin, and Fenglin suddenly turned over and fell to his knees in fright.
"It's not good to be left, it's not okay to be right, do you still want him to disguise himself as a woman and follow the county lord? What is this system? β
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then let him follow you." Xiao Zhu smiled slightly.
Ryu Fan looked at the wind forest and finally nodded. He turned around and walked out, walked to the door, turned back to Feng Xing, and said, "Although you have a beautiful face, smooth skin, and even the Adam's apple is not very obvious, and you can't see a man under carelessness, you have forgotten that your ears are not pierced. With a flick of his fingers, two silver needles flew out, one left and one right piercing through the ears of the wind forest.
"Hahaha, wear an earring, you are not allowed to approach the county lord without permission in the future, otherwiseβ" He laughed, glanced meaningfully at the lower body of the wind forest, and turned to go out.
"Yes!" Feng Lin covered his hands below his lower abdomen and nodded tremblingly.
"Sister Fenglin, I'll put earrings on you." Xiao Zhu smiled and took out a pair of jasper earrings from his body and walked in front of the wind forest.
"The male is the female, and the female is the male." Feng Lin looked at Xiao Zhu dressed in men's clothes, and said with a sad face.
"Hehe, Sister Fenglin, don't worry about it so much, it's important to save your life, you go and change back into palace clothes, and go to serve the prince in the tent of His Royal Highness the Prince." Xiao Zhu was amused by his appearance.
"Poor county lord, there is not even a person to talk to." The wind forest muttered.
The two of them went out of the camp together, and they dispersed, and after a while, they changed their palace clothes, and they entered the prince's tent during the period, followed by many palace maids, and served the prince breakfast.
After dawn, everyone dressed up and continued to hurry, Luo Lianyi sat alone in the carriage, pouting and lifting a little curtain to look out the window.
Day and night stay, do not feel more than half a month, there is no thrill all the way, this day crossed the Ling River, then crossed the border of Tangling, into the jurisdiction of Xiling.
"Finally set foot on the land of our Great Western Tomb!" As soon as the carriage got off the bridge, Liufan got out of the carriage and stood in the open road, looking around, the corners of his glass-white clothes swayed in the wind, his hair fluttered in the wind, and there was a hint of a smile on his handsome face.
Luo Lianyi looked at him in the carriage, and then looked at the mountains and fields in the distance, she didn't feel anything, whether it was east or west, it was a strange world to her.
The convoy continued on its way, and in the evening, they reached a county town called Xihe. Liu Fan ordered the soldiers to be stationed outside the city, and only brought the palace maids and personal guards into the city, and the local county officials dared to slack off, and had already prepared a mansion for them to stay.
After Luo Lianyi had dinner, she lay down on the bed early, the eunuchs and palace maids who came with Tanglin have served her very well since her heart-warming words that day, and several leading palace maids and eunuchs have become familiar with her, Luo Lianyi knows that they are just doing things for the queen, and they can't blame them, and they are no longer hostile to them.
She saw Father-in-law Wu, Father-in-law An, and the palace maid Liu Ye, and the thrush still standing at the door, and asked, "Have you given me an antidote?" β
"I've already taken it." The palace maid Liu Ye replied.
Luo Lianyi looked at her and asked tentatively, "The antidote is in your hands?" β
Liu Ye hurriedly shook his head: "No, no." β
"County Lord, please don't embarrass the minions." Grandpa An bowed his head and said.
Luo Lianyi looked at them, nodded, and said, "Then you all go and rest, everyone is tired." β
"Lord Xie." The four of them bowed their heads and retreated.