CHAPTER 63 RENDEZVOUS 1
The wagon was piled with peanut stalks, corn, alfalfa, bran and oats. It's a truck, the same one as the one before it. The difference is that the coachman, and now the carriage is sitting on Qin Shi, the head of the Qin family's stables.
After meeting Prince Zaima at the Sea House, she returned the magical cloak to him, and the prince arranged for a personal guard to protect her into a large wagon filled with wood, wine, powder, and cotton pants. The nurse named Hazarva was silent, and she didn't say a word unless she asked, and she didn't talk much, her voice was hoarse, and no matter what she asked, she couldn't get the answer she wanted.
So she didn't bother to speak all the way, she sat on the bag of cotton clothes and pants and prayed to the dragon god for blessing, so that Prince Zaima could spend tonight smoothly, and tomorrow he would embark on the road back to China safely, while Qinglian could live happily.
After the end of the month, the gates of the dragon city are closed and entry and exit are prohibited, except for carriages with royal insignia, or vehicles with special permits. The carriage in which she rode had the emblems of the golden circle and the ears of wheat. The Rich Chamber of Commerce had privileged access, and their goods departed from the warehouses in the docklands day and night, bringing rich tax revenues to the kingdom. When she and Hazawa got into the car, the people from the Fertility Chamber of Commerce didn't ask much, everything had already been arranged.
After leaving the city gate, the Chamber of Commerce truck kept full speed and passed smoothly through the stone wall of the shoal fort. If it is cold and snowy today, and the north wind is constantly blowing on the road of the virtuous king, why should the guards of the shallow fort have one less thing to do, and when they see the emblem of the Rich Chamber of Commerce, they even omit the procedure of stopping the car and checking it.
Shoal Fort used to be Yanping Town, the carriage of the Fertile Chamber of Commerce stopped outside the town, Long Dailan followed Hazawa to get out of the car, and was led to another carriage, when she saw that the coachman was Qin Shi, she was surprised and delighted, and tears flowed out of her eyes with excitement.
Qin Shi smiled at him, but didn't speak, pointing to the carriage and motioning for her to hurry up and get on the train. It only then occurred to her that they were still on the run, and there was no room for wasting time.
Hazava let her get into the car first, and there were knee-high chairs in a cart of crops, cushioned with comfortable thick fur. She sat down, Qin Shi drove the carriage, and she looked at Hazhava, who had not yet sat down. The islander was not a man of great stature, but this Hazawa was an exception, a sallow islander with gray eyes and a thick beard, who always hung his head and did not dare to look at him directly. He was too restrained, she knew most of Prince Zaima's bodyguards, and she couldn't remember seeing this person in Golden Castle. Maybe someone who came with King Tanyuko.
Once she was seated, Hazava suddenly made a gesture she didn't expect: he knelt down on one knee at her and bowed his head. The superfluous etiquette made her feel that something was wrong, and he spoke. It was obvious that he was suppressing, but she still heard a slight tremor in his voice: "Dragon Monarch guards Yu Jian, meet Your Majesty." ”
She froze as if she had been struck by lightning. She stared intently at the person in front of her for a long time, her lips twitching, wanting to say something, but she didn't say it.
Hazarva knelt down on one knee and pressed his forehead to the wooden floor of the carriage, and the excitement in his tone suddenly disappeared, and he became firm and sincere, and he was heard only to say: "In the name of my father, before my god and my king, I make this vow: I will serve my king with all my heart and soul, obey my king's commands, watch over my king's well-being, and assist him in all matters of the kingdom until the end of my life." I swear today that I will obey it all my life, and if I break it, I will fall into the nether world and never sleep!"
This was a voice that she was no longer familiar with, she no longer had any doubts, and the confusion that had lingered in her heart was swept away by this kind and longing voice, and became clear and transparent.
"Yu Jian, stand up. She stood up too.
"Look at me. Yu Jian raised his head and looked at her. His eyes were moist.
She was the same, the corners of her eyes were like a dam that had broken through the embankment, and two streams of heat rushed out uncontrollably. She threw herself into his arms and put her arms around his neck, feeling that she was no longer a princess, that she was just a wounded woman, a woman who had been full of anticipation and confidence but also frustrated and hurt.
"I thought you were dead. Qinglian told me that you didn't, you don't know how happy I am. But I never thought I'd ever see you again one day. This is the arrangement of fate, the grace of the dragon god......"
Yu Jian stood like a rock, his hand hanging to his side, not raised, not hugging her back. "I have always believed that one day I will see His Majesty again. Always looking forward to this day, and now, it's really coming. ”
His tone made her blush. He was reminding her that she was a dragon king. So she left him, wiped away her tears with her palms, and her uncontrolled body regained its sanity and composure. Just like she always does.
"I ask you to take back that title, I am not the Dragon King, I am not your King. ”
He said firmly: "Your Majesty is my king, the king I have sworn to protect for the rest of my life." From this day forward, I live for this vow. ”
"If you regard me as your king, then I command you to retract from now on the titles I do not like, and we will speak as before. I'm not and don't want to be a dragon. ”
Yu Jian replied: "Yes." ”
"Sit down and tell me everything I don't know. ”
He sat across from her, "We're going to the Golden Castle now." Madame Qin has already gone first, and she will be waiting for us in Sanyang Town. It was Prince Zaima who offered to rescue you. Originally, Madame Qin planned to ask the usurper again and beg him to let you go back to the Golden Fort to attend the kneeling and funeral. ”
My mother-in-law was going to make her feel humiliated, but she ......, "Long Chengtian won't let me leave the prison." ”
"Madame has her plans. However, Prince Zaima's proposal made her very tempted, and with Qinglian's assistance, it became feasible for you to get out of prison quietly. In contrast, Prince Zaima's plan was more certain to get you back to the Golden Castle, so Madame decided to take the risk. ”
This is not an adventure, it is simply leading the situation to an irresolvable dead end. Once Long discovers that she has escaped from prison and returned to the Golden Castle, a war will inevitably break out. There has never been a civil war in the history of the kingdom since the founding of the Holy King. But because of her, history will be set first.
"We may all underestimate Qinglian, she is much smarter and braver than many people think. Yu Jian opened half of the car window and looked behind, "I didn't want to leave the royal capital, but I didn't have a choice." ”
He spread out his left palm, a recent scar dragging across his palm.
"You...... And a blood oath?"
"I killed Anqing. He confessed to the crime of poisoning the first king, everything was more complicated than I thought, and Yuan Dawei was also involved. I vowed to ......," he stared at the scar in a dejected mood, "but things have changed now. ”
She turned her head and watched the scenery on both sides of the Road of the First Kings speeding past the car window. "You still want to stay, you want revenge. ”
"Yes. That's part of my vow, it's a mission I have to fulfill. Yu Jian sighed, "It's just going to be pushed back for a while." ”
"Before I go to the House of the Sea, I hope Qinglian will go with me, leave the royal capital, and go to the Golden Castle. But she refused. She didn't want her sister to stay, stay in this fire pit, once the war broke out, how could Qinglian be safe?
Qinglian said that the palace was a cage, and she was a bird in a cage, and what bird did not want to fly freely, but she had to stay. Yu Jian said, "She didn't say why. I think her feelings for Princess Jinyu are not what she shows. ”
"We are all caged birds, all with broken wings. She stroked her abdomen, her eyes staring blankly at a cart of crops, "Even if I had wings, I couldn't fly now." ”
"You're already flying, you're out of the cage. ”
She said loudly, "But Qinglian hasn't yet!"
She knew that if the plan was revealed, Princess Jinyu would be affected, and she wanted to accompany her biological mother to suffer together. ”
"She sacrificed so much ...... to save me" She held Yu Jian's hand, "Let's rush back now and take her away, if she is reluctant to be with Princess Jinyu, then bring it out together!"
"Impossible. There is no turning back, only forward. Prince Zaima's layout could be discovered at any moment, and if our carriage slowed a little slowly, we could catch up. ”
"What if something happens to the prince and Qinglian?"
"His Royal Highness the Prince, there should be no problem. Who can prove that Qinglian was involved in this? Don't think so much, they ......."
She interrupted him, "Now I must turn around immediately, and I will return to the prison, so that Qinglian and the prince will definitely not have an accident." ”
"No!" he immediately retorted, his eyes turning angry, "Everything they do is for you, you can't let them down!"
"I command you!" she shouted to him.
When he opened his mouth to say something, the expression on his face became very painful again, and his heart seemed to be going through a fierce struggle. "Forgive me, I refuse this order!" he knelt down, "You can give me death, but I won't let you go back!"
Her body slumped, she fell into her fur chair, and muttered, "You want me to look at them...... You're so cruel......"
"Wouldn't it be cruel if you want me to watch you go back and suffer?" Yu Jian's head was lowered, but his tone was raised, "You will reach Sanyang Town safely, and then return to Jinbao." ”
"And then start a ...... War?" She sat up, unable to control her anger, "Because I'm alone, start a war?"
"You can't back down any longer! You are the rightful heir of the kingdom! If war breaks out, why it breaks out, you know better than anyone else. Why would you let a usurper sit comfortably on the throne when you would rather be locked up in a prison until your hair grows?"
Even if Yu Jian was dressed up in Hazava's appearance, she could see how cold his expression was, she had never seen him like this.
He had never opposed her. But today he has repeatedly stood in opposition to her.
"He's your enemy! He's the enemy who killed the first king and Zixing! You have too many concerns, I know you're for Su Yun, for Qinglian, and for Biyue, but you can't forget your hatred because of this!"
"I have never forgotten hatred. She argued weakly.
"The courtier's capital offense. Your Majesty, a minister cannot speak like that. His tone lowered, his tone full of apology, "Madam Qin is ready, Qin Ming will not let you be wronged." The war starts because it should begin, not because of you. Murder, treason, usurpation, such crimes, they should have suffered the most severe punishment. There is no justification for us to allow the perpetrators of such crimes to go unpunished. ”
She closed her eyes tightly and could no longer speak.
She only heard Yu Jian continue: "Like you, I don't want war to break out, and I just like you to hope that the kingdom will always be peaceful and peaceful, and all the boxers will live happily. If no one kills the king and usurps the throne, how can there be such a result? The dragon god wants us to pursue the path of peace, but he does not want us to blindly retreat. ”
"Qin Shi's speed is very fast, and he is about to arrive in Sanyang Town. We're approaching Ironwall, and you're about to go home. She was silent, and Yu Jian continued, as if talking to himself: "Go back to Jinbao, everything will be fine." ”