At night, the night is quiet, the oblique moon is shining, and the orchid is fragrant from the courtyard.

After dinner, Yin Xiao specially prepared a cup of tea for me. The two of them stood not far away to serve and wait.

Yin Xiao and I sat face to face.

"The princess came to the Central Plains from the desert, I'm afraid there are many places where she can't adapt to it, right?"

Yin Xiao asked me as he made tea. For the past two days, he has treated me as one of his own.

Thinking that it was the flying pigeon to deliver the message, he already understood the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

"In fact, there are some differences in diet, although the climate and environment here are not as clear as the desert, but there is also a bit of the Central Plains, and there is a different feeling."

Although I am in the Central Plains, my heart is still in the desert.

"I can feel this kind of princess."

Yin Xiao looked up at me and smiled at me, as if he understood my state of mind very well.

"Actually, speaking of which, I grew up in the desert since I was a child, and when I was five years old, I came to the Central Plains with my mother, and then we never went back."

"However, General Baoli did not mention you."

"That's because the princess has been living in the second prince's mansion, so she doesn't know much about outside things. What's more, my background is not something that everyone will mention. ”

When I heard this, I was silent, and he seemed to know everything about me very well.

"Then why didn't you go back to the desert later?"

I'm still curious about his background.

"We originally lived in Wuheqi, and my father and aunt used to follow the Great Khan to fight on the battlefield for several years, and then after they died of illness in a war, when I was two years old, they followed my mother, my mother is my mother's own sister, and she took me in. General Baoli likes my mother, but my mother is unwilling to share General Baoli's love with other Fujin, so she chose to leave the desert alone and come to the Central Plains. ”

"Does General Baoli love your mother?"

"I think it's love." Yin Xiao said, but his eyes were fixed on the steaming tea in his hand.

"Ask what the world is like, and teach people to promise life and death. has guarded his love for a person all his life, from red face to white hair, and he has never been in vain in this life. ”

It's only now that I really understand Yinxiao's background and his slightly melancholy personality.

"If I can meet the woman I like in this life, even if it is hard, I am willing to be like my mother, keep her well for a lifetime, and love her for a lifetime."

Howling looked at me with burning eyes at this time, and I quickly looked away.

"If it hadn't happened to me this time, my father might have betrothed me to Temur."

I changed the subject, and when Yin Xiao saw me talking about Temur, he was suddenly dumbfounded.

I thought it was something I just said that made him feel more distracted.

"I mean, Temur!"

"Don't say it, princess, I understand what you want to say, I know that Temur likes you very much, and you love him. This is known to everyone in the desert now, and I don't mean anything else. In this life, you will meet many people, but it is not easy to meet the person you have been waiting for all your life. If Temur turns his back on you, will you let me stay with you? ”

"No, Temur won't turn his back on me, never."

Hearing this, I quickly felt that my heart began to panic, and the whole person seemed a little uneasy.

Although Temur and I have not been together for long, the feeling of heartbeat is not unique to me, not to mention that he is the horse that my father has long set up.

I trust my instincts, I believe that Temur loves me, but why do I feel so flustered now?

Is there something going to happen that makes me feel uneasy? I don't want to think about it any further.

"I wonder what happened to them now?"

My face suddenly darkened, and my thoughts pressed on my heart layer by layer like a mountain.

Seeing that I was a little worried, Yin Xiao hurriedly took out a letter from my side.

"Originally, I didn't want to take out this letter with me, but I think you still know it well."

I looked at Yin Xiao and the letter in his hand with a puzzled look on my face.

"Princess, see for yourself."

When he handed me the letter, a hesitant expression made me suddenly feel an inexplicable sense of nervousness and unease about the letter.

It turned out that this was a letter from General Baoli to Yin Xiao alone, and the letter said that Temur wanted to use the power of Khan Yiguo to tide over the immediate crisis for his father.

I handed the letter back to Yinxiao.

"That's good, if Father and Temur can fight together, then Chagan will soon be defeated by their men."

I immediately rejoiced, and my previous depression was swept away.

Yin Xiao looked at me with a strange expression.

"Yinxiao, is there any secret in this that can't be said?"

I looked at him and felt that this letter was not that simple.

He looked at me and nodded expressionlessly.

"Khan Yiguo has a very strong condition, that is, let Temur marry Mengyu, the princess of Khan Yiguo, as a prerequisite for the alliance."

"What!"

As soon as I heard this, I stood up, and the sound was so loud that even Grasshopper and Ren Zongheng couldn't help but look at it a few more times, not knowing what was going on between us.

"All of this is true?"

By the time I finished asking this question, I felt powerless, and tears flowed down my cheeks.

I hurriedly turned my head away, not wanting Howl to see me crying.

I know that with the current situation in the desert and my father's physical condition, I am afraid it will not be so easy to turn the tide.

What Yin Xiao said may be the real situation facing the desert at present.

"Yinxiao, why are you telling me this, if I don't know about this, if Temur goes to marry another princess, if the desert can survive the crisis safely, if his father can be safe...

I know, I can't go on anymore.

"Temur he won't agree, he won't agree."

I couldn't stop crying at this point.

"Maybe he won't agree, but at the moment, it seems that General Baoli also knows that there is no faster and safer way to rescue the Great Khan than marriage."

The desert is safe, why do you have to pay for the happiness of my princess Suluo? For a moment, my heart ached so much that I could barely help myself.

Thinking that my father's life is still on the line, the desert is already in crisis, the wolves are feeding, and the rise and fall of the entire royal family, how can I give it away in vain because of the fate of a princess?

"This is the fate that God has given us, and there will definitely be helplessness that you can't bear. This may be the sorrow of being born in the royal family, my fate is not up to me. If you are just a civilian, you may not need to trade your lifelong happiness for the safety of the country. If there is, it may be a case of individual exceptions. In fact, even if we are civilians, we must also follow the fate of the country, and we will be accompanied by honor and disgrace. The Kmur royal family is here, and the desert is there. If the desert royal family is occupied by a foreign race, then we can only live a life of stealth. ”

At this time, I looked up at the sky, and the moon had disappeared from the sky.

The ever-changing weather, like that ever-changing life, made me stand there for a while, completely immersed in my own sadness.

At some point, the grasshopper stood silently beside me, and she gently draped me in a lilac cloak.

"Princess, it's cold at night, go back and rest early."

I nodded at Yinxiao and greeted him, who immediately understood what I meant.

"The princess is in a bad mood, so let's go back and rest early."

The grasshopper looked at my dejected body and gave him an unfriendly look.

The grasshopper and I walked slowly back along the corridor from which we came. Before he could reach his bedroom, he heard a faint and desolate sound floating behind him.

I hurriedly held on to the grasshopper and could barely stand.

"Princess, it doesn't matter to you, do you?" I shook my head vigorously.

In the courtyard, a pool of duckweed, blown up by the night wind, is drifting quickly in one direction.

I followed the grasshopper slowly back to the bedroom, and barely slept all night.

I tossed and turned in bed like this, and I still couldn't sleep until the third watch, but the grasshopper had already fallen asleep next to me.

I got out of bed, opened the door, and walked out into the courtyard alone.

The moonlight is cold, shining on the ground, and you can clearly see the moss marks on the stone steps.

I sat down on the cold stone bench, and I couldn't help thinking of my father and Temur, who were far away in the desert.

At this moment, Ren Zongheng quietly appeared behind me without knowing when.

"Princess, it's been three watches, it's late at night, it's cold outside, you better rest early!"

"Can't sleep."

I sighed.

"I know, it must be what Yin Xiao said today, which has added something to your heart. It's just that this mountain is high and the road is far away, and now we are not in the desert, no one can say the specific situation, you have to take care of your body. ”

After speaking, Ren Zongheng stood on tiptoe and took a closer look at the inside of the room.

"That being said, it's impossible for me not to think about the desert."

"I'm worried about your body, your body has always been very weak, if your body doesn't pay attention anymore, wouldn't it be even worse."

"I'll take notice." I responded.

"This girl, Grasshopper, doesn't serve the princess well, and went to sleep so early today? Tomorrow, I won't trouble her. ”

"Don't, Zongheng, before going to bed at night, I felt that she might be uncomfortable, always coughing, presumably the fatigue of these days has exhausted her, let's let her sleep a little longer."

"It's tiring, but it's our responsibility to protect the princess. Although this is not a desert, you still have to be very careful. ”

As soon as Ren Zongheng finished saying this, he saw several long black shadows on the roof opposite, stepping on light skills, and floating quickly towards this side like arrows.

By the time Ren Zongheng and I wanted to go back to the house, it was too late.