Chapter 31: The Princess of the Dead Country
Outside the cottage, hundreds of fires swayed in the starlight, they were dressed in black suits, with a half-human tall longbow and cowhide quiver behind their backs, a half-moon-shaped long knife at their waists, and a snow-white horse slowly entered the village.
The knight on the white horse was dressed in a wide black robe, with a gold-inlaid knife at his waist, and his face was covered by a black veil, revealing only a pair of black eyes, like stars in the dark curtain, shining in the flickering firelight.
"Prus, Prus!" The Hekren people in the cottage stopped singing and dancing, gathered in front of the white horse knight, and bowed.
The White Horse Knight stretched out his crystal clear fingertips and said a few words, and the Black Kren crowd surged to make way for a passage. The knight of the white horse spurred his horse forward and restrained his horse in the stilted house of Toulon. At this moment, Toulon and a group of elders flashed out from under the stilted building, holding their hands on their chests and bowing their heads.
The white horse knight raised his head high, snorted, and did not answer, and the scene instantly cooled down.
"Brother Toulon, what's going on?" Zhu Jun had already appeared in the doorway, calmly descended the ladder made of bamboo strips with his hands behind his back, and looked at the white horse knight with his eyes.
"Dare to ask Miss's name." Zhu Jun pretended to bow his hand in a chic manner, but looking at his appearance, he coped with it mostly, and he didn't necessarily have much sincerity, he hated those women who pretended to be arrogant since his previous life, not to mention that this woman didn't even dare to show her face with a scarf, obviously she was too ugly, and she was embarrassed to come out to see people.
"Han dog!" The white horse knight screamed again, and the horsewhip in his hand drew an irregular arc in the moonlight and roared towards Zhu Jun.
Zhu Jun took a step back again and again, only to see the tip of the whip slashing in front of him, and he was almost about to be whipped by the long whip.
"Dare to rebel!" Mu Jianming in the distance had already come out, and with a bang, he pulled out his long sword, and hundreds of bows and crossbows were also wound and charged with aim. The target was none other than the veiled girl on a white horse.
"Hulag!" The men in the power suits who came with the girl roared, and they all pulled out the scimitars at their waists, only the clansmen of the Black Clen cottage looked at each other and didn't know what to do.
"Brother Zhu, this is the princess of the Ya'an royal family of our Karen clan, quickly let all your people put down their weapons, everyone has something to say." Toulon was terrified.
Before Zhu Jun could answer, the princess's dark eyes had swept towards Toulon, and she said coquettishly: "Toulon, what are you doing in the stockade with these Han dogs?" What are you guilty of? ”
The standard of the princess's Chinese dialect is abnormal, and the words are mellow, and even Zhu Jun can't help but feel embarrassed.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, why do you want to learn the language of the Han people? What's more, we didn't do anything to be sorry for the princess, what does it mean that you are indiscriminately committing murder with a horsewhip? Is this the hospitality of your Karen people? Zhu Jun saw that the Shenji Battalion had been drugged, as long as the other party moved, they could be beaten into mud immediately, and he secretly put his mind at ease, after weighing the pros and cons, he was unwilling to make things too stiff, it was easy to kill this princess, but she was respected by the Karen people, and there were many troubles that followed.
"Her Royal Highness Princess Ya'an, this Zhu brother is the life-saving benefactor of the cottage, they not only brought life-saving food to the cottage, but also expelled the wild elephants outside the village for us, the Han people are not completely bad people, Toulon dares to guarantee that Brother Zhu is a good person." Toulon raised his head and looked directly into Princess Ya'an's eyes, standing still, looking like he was arguing with reason.
"Because of this, do you be grateful to Dade? Toulon, are you still not an elder of the Karen tribe? Princess Ya'an couldn't help but pout, glanced at Zhu Jun from the corner of her eye, and snorted coldly.
Zhu Jun laughed: "Her Royal Highness the princess is joking, where was Her Royal Highness the princess when the cottage was attacked by wild elephants?" When there was no food in the cottage, and many people couldn't even eat, where was Her Royal Highness the Princess? Since Her Royal Highness the princess can help Shanzhai solve these problems, how can she let Zhu take advantage of this loophole? ”
"What are you? I am the princess of Donghu Kingdom. Princess Ya'an waved her whip proudly.
"This is a dignified tomorrow, the new first emperor, what are you a princess of the lower kingdom?" Mu Jianming has stepped out, and his arrogant appearance is more than that of Princess Ya'an.
"Dongoo country? Isn't it the one who was wiped out by the Burmese fifty years ago? Now that he has lost his country, he still has the face to call himself a princess, which is really shameless, haha! "There was a soldier of the Shenji Battalion who had heard a little about Donghu Province and said loudly in the crowd.
"You...... What are you? Ya'an was so angry that she almost jumped off her horse, and the grinding of her teeth could be heard from afar.
"Haha........." The fighters of the Shenji Battalion laughed.
Zhu Jun's face turned the color of pig liver, that bastard laughed at Princess Ya'an for being the princess of the dead country, so wouldn't he also be the king of the dead country, scolding the bald donkey in front of the monk, this guy is ruthless enough, I don't know if he was unintentional or otherwise, if it weren't for the presence of so many people, Zhu Jun really wanted to pull this broken-mouthed guy out and smoke a few ear scrapers.
"Your Highness the Princess." Zhu Jun was much more polite now, and he remembered that the princess of Donghu Kingdom in front of him was actually in the same situation as himself, and she had gone through the exile and suffering of the country, and suffered from being ridiculed, which Zhu Jun deeply understood, presumably this princess was the same: "You are the princess of the dead country, I am also the king of the dead country, my generals said the wrong thing, I hope to forgive me." ”
"Fake!" Princess Ya'an turned her face away and ignored Zhu Jun, but her voice softened a lot. She blinked suddenly, turned her head and said, "You are the Emperor Yongli who escaped from the Son of Heaven?" I heard that you came to Myanmar from the Central Plains, thousands of miles away, and now that you are in southern Myanmar, where are you going to go next? ”
This sentence can be described as extremely tricky, and it contains mockery, which makes the surrounding Shenji Battalion soldiers can't help but change their faces greatly. Although Princess Ya'an covered her face, Zhu Jun saw that she was only seventeen or eighteen years old at most, how could he see her like this, so he smiled and said: "The princess said that she was laughing, everyone is a victim of suffering, so why mock each other?" ”
Princess Ya'an was stunned for a moment, and stopped speaking, Zhu Jun's title of Emperor of the former Ming Dynasty still has some effect, Donghu was once a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, although Emperor Yongli's reputation is not good, but Princess Ya'an would never have thought that Zhu Jun would have any conspiracy to deceive a cottage.
"Brother Zhu, are you the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?" Toulon had already come to Zhu Jun's side, with a puzzled expression.
Zhu Jun nodded and said: "Exactly, Zhu didn't deliberately hide it from you, but you never mentioned it, so Zhu naturally didn't answer, no matter what, I am still your brother Zhu, and you are still my big brother in Toulon." ”
Emperor Yongli's eldest brother, Toulon couldn't help but have two eyes shining, although this is just a false name, no real benefit, but this Yongli is also thousands of miles away once ruled the emperor of thousands of miles away, Toulon felt that he had a lot of face, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of Princess Ya'an, who was immediately silent, Toulon's face stiffened again, he bowed to Princess Ya'an and said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Toulon assures you that my brother will never hurt any Karen people, on the contrary, he not only helped our cottage, he is also the same as us." We may be able to unite and overthrow the Burmese king and re-establish the Taung Hou state belonging to the Karen people in southern Burma. ”
Ya'an hesitated and glanced at Zhu Jun, and said: "I still have to think about it, this time I came to help you drive away the wild elephants, since the wild elephants have been driven away by the Han people, this matter is over, I and my subordinates are already very tired after a day's journey, you go find a place for us to rest." ”
Toulon knew that Ya'an was no longer entangled in the affairs of the Han dog, and obviously did not regard Zhu Jun as an enemy, so he said with joy: "Your Royal Highness the princess, you and your subordinates will be arranged in the largest stilted building in the cottage, and we have prepared the sweetest sweet tea and the best bamboo rice to entertain you." ”