323, Fanwai 1: The snow is full of thousands of mountains and people have not returned (4)
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The glowing green light was getting closer and closer to me, and I could already smell the fishy smell peculiar to the wild wolf in front of me, and I knew that it was the sound of the wolf about to jump. I stared at me with wide eyes, and a wolf standing taller than I did, leaping out of the grass and rushing straight at me, the hazy moonlight reflecting the gray-black fur of the wolf, and the mouth of salivating blood was opening in front of me.
I hurriedly let go of the bowstring, and with a shake of my right hand, the arrow was deflected and fell to the ground before it had flown far. I shook my hand and tried to touch another arrow to come out, but I found that the quiver at my feet had rolled away. A hot mass rushed towards me, and I closed my eyes, and covered my head with both hands, and I had only one last thought left in my heart, that I hope this wolf would give me a good time, and not bite too ugly.
A furry tail swept across my arm, but it didn't tear as much as expected. When I opened my eyes, a dog about the size of a wolf was biting the throat of one wolf, and the other wolves slowed down, their backs tensed up, and they gathered around with vigilance.
Before I could come to my senses, a shrill whistle came from the woods, and three sharp arrows came at each other, striking the throats of the three wolves. Smelling blood, the remaining wolves let out a low roar. The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and the horseback had a short knife in his mouth, and a longbow in his hand, and while galloping his horse, he released a dozen arrows one after another, and a dozen wolves fell to the ground in response.
When the man and the horse were only a few paces away from me, I realized that the man on horseback was Tuoba. I don't know why he went and returned, but I feel at peace that I won't be in danger when he comes. I was about to wave at him, but his face suddenly changed, I sensed that something was wrong, and turned my head to see that a wolf had crept up to me at some point, opening its mouth as if I had bitten it.
I forgot to even exclaim, and just looked at it in a daze. I heard the sound of bones shattering, and then I saw that he had his arm in front of the wolf's fangs, and the knife he had bitten in his mouth pierced the wolf's eyes. It was already the last one alive in the pack, Tuoba Jue held the handle of the knife and turned it slowly, the wolf's body twitched a few times, and finally stopped moving at all.
Tuoba Jue said "Don't look", pulled the knife out of the wolf's eye, and the wolf's blood splattered out, and his body fell limply. One of his sleeves was soaked in blood, but he looked at me stupidly and smiled. I finally came to my senses and cried out loud, "Wow". He wiped my tears with his uninjured hand and whispered "Okay, okay, stop crying......"
I sobbed and looked at the blood on his sleeve and tried to bandage him, but there was nothing at hand. In fact, I have never taken care of anyone, and I don't know how to bandage people, so I reached out and somehow said another sentence: "Give me back my gold bead earrings......"
Tuoba was stunned for a moment, then shook his finger at me, and he actually picked up the gold bead earrings that were thrown out, and hooked them on the wrench and carried them with him. My face was hot, and I wiped my eyes and turned away. He withdrew his hand and said a little childishly, "I won't give it to you." ”
I pouted and didn't speak, and he probably thought I was angry, moved up to me and said, "Leave me the earrings, and I'll pick the stars in the sky and give them to you." I stopped sobbing and asked confusedly, "How do I pick it?" ”
He pursed his lips and smiled, reached out and grabbed it in front of my eyes, then covered my eyes with his palm. I couldn't see anything but his voice ringing very close to my ears, "Your eyes are the two brightest stars tonight, and I have picked them." ”
The hot breath from his mouth was on my ears, and half of my body was itching. The heat cleared a little, and as soon as I felt a little sober, two soft pieces pressed against my lips. I tried to speak, but the tip of his tongue nimbly probed into my mouth, and the whole person seemed to be submerged in a barrel full of hot water, and the heat made me flutter.
When he removed his hand, I opened my eyes to a starry sky and his smiling face.
There will be other wolves in the mountains, and Tuoba said that it is safest to stay where they are, because the territory demarcated by this group of wolves, other wolves will not easily enter. The dog was also raised by him, and like him, he was fierce and fierce when he bit the wolves, but when he was fine, he wagged his tail around his hand.
It was very windy at night, and he put his arm around me to help me block the night wind. The feeling of nestling in his chest is completely different from hiding in his brother's cloak, I am relaxed with him, but with him, I am a little nervous, and a little sneaky excited.
He took me back to the palace at dawn, and my mother came to see me at night and found that I was gone, and my grandfather and father personally took people around to look for me all night, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief. Tuoba saved me, and in order to reward him, my grandfather promised to lend him 20,000 soldiers to help him defeat his rebellious uncle.
When he left, he left a carrier pigeon for me. Every few days the pigeon flew out on its own, and when it came back it had something bolted to its paws, sometimes an opal, sometimes a broken iron ring in his armor, and sometimes just a piece of paper with the words "My Princess" written on it.
I put everything I brought back with the carrier pigeon in my makeup box. Those things let me know what he was doing, that he was thinking about me. Sometimes when you close your eyes, the words "my princess" come to mind. I can imagine what he looked like when he uttered these words, half cunning, half wooden.
I started to dislike going out for a ride, and I didn't always pester my brother as much as I used to. I used a stick to make a notch on the large stone in the doorway, recording how many days he had been gone. More often than not, I take out the contents of the makeup box one by one and look at them, and carefully wipe them to perfection.
"My princess, my princess......" I whispered these four words, and I felt that those four simplest words were so addictive. When he returns, I'll let him read it to me.
Ah Niang noticed the change in me, and always sighed silently by cutting my hair. I don't understand why she sighed, wasn't she most worried that I wouldn't be able to get married?
When the news of Tuoba's victory came, it was already the spring of the following year. Of the 20,000 soldiers he took away, less than 10,000 remained, which shows how fierce the battle was. I heard from my brother that the Tuoba clan had sent a lot of horses, grain, grass, gold and silver, and slaves, and was willing to pay tribute to Dayan every year in the future.
On the day he came to see my grandfather, my father forbade me to go out. I won't listen to him, so I broke away from the palace maid sent by my father and quietly slipped away to the main hall. There were many people standing in the main hall, but I saw him at a glance, dressed in armor and majestic. I hid behind the curtain and rubbed my eyes vigorously, trying to see every detail of him.
Tuoba Jue took off his helmet and knelt down on one knee in front of the imperial grandfather, "I have one more request, I want to ask His Majesty the Great Yan Emperor to agree to me." He paused, then exclaimed, "I want Princess Yanyan to be my wife, and from now on, I will love her as much as I love my own eyes." ”
I imagined many possibilities of what he would say first when I saw him again, but I didn't expect him to say in front of so many people that he wanted to marry me. His words and actions are always so unexpected. The little rabbit in my heart was about to jump out, and my eyes widened as I stared at the slowly open lips of my grandfather, and I forgot to breathe.
"Yanyan is still young, let's talk about it in a few years."
I was a little disappointed that my grandfather refused, and not only that, but for the rest of the day, I was firmly guarded by my father and could not meet with Tuoba. I begged, cried, and even deliberately skipped a meal, trying to get my father to let me out, but this time he said cruelly, whoever let me out, he would cut off someone's hand.
On the fifth day, I saw in the bronze mirror that my eyes were red and swollen, and my face was full of tears. The door of the palace opened, and the imperial grandfather came to see me in person, hugged me on his lap, and sighed incessantly, "Yanyan, wild wolves can never be raised...... I only have one granddaughter, and I can't bear to ......."
Actually, I didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, I looked up at the wrinkles on the emperor's grandfather's face, and his beard was also covered with a layer of frost. He used to be the whole myth of being undefeated, but now he is really a little old. I didn't want to upset him, so I could only nod my head and promise not to cry again.
Tuoba Jue has already left the Great Yan Capital, and the things in the makeup box have been taken away by A-Niang, and even the carrier pigeon doesn't know where to fly. The man who said he was going to take off the star for me as a dowry disappeared completely.
The peach blossoms outside the window have fallen and bloomed, and they have been repeated three times. My grandfather and father became busier and busier, often fighting for months on end, and my brother began to learn to govern the country, so he did not have time to be with me as he used to.
There has been constant warfare in this land, with the powerful tribes annexing the weaker tribes and the stronger tribes vying for supremacy. I heard from the palace ladies that Princess Ningchen of the Xiongnu has already married, and her husband is from the most powerful tribe in the Xianbei grassland except for the Murong clan, and this tribe is also the most difficult enemy of the Murong Yan country. A-Niang doesn't know about political affairs, and my brother seems to be deliberately hiding it from me, and I never know who this most powerful opponent is.
I'm sixteen years old, but I still don't want to get married. Four years ago, it was because I hadn't grown up yet, but now it's because I know that I can't be willful. The emperor's grandfather and father transferred all the 100,000 most elite soldiers and horses to compete with that powerful opponent. When there were not enough people in the city, I would put on armor and take a longbow and go to the top of the city. I gathered the young girls together and taught them how to use the bow and arrow in their hands.
I often sit on the big rock at the entrance of the dormitory in a daze, but I no longer use a wooden stick to record the day. The more than 200 marks I made last time are still there, and they are the last memory that Tuoba left me.
One evening, I was sitting on a big rock, touching the more than 200 shallow marks with my fingers, when suddenly a pigeon chirped in the air. I tentatively reached out and the pigeon actually landed on my arm, with a note tied to its paws.
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