In the twelfth year of the Yan Qing Dynasty, November 17, the Kingdom of David, a border city in the northern frontier.

In winter, it was as cold as ever, so cold that I stood in the courtyard and rubbed my hands.

My name is Luo Tongjun, and I also have a title, which is the only royal heir of this David's kingdom - Princess Frost Butterfly.

My father said that on the day I was born, the courtyard was full of pink butterflies, and because I was the first child, the emperor's grandfather valued me very much, and even canonized me as the lord of Frost Butterfly and gave me a fief. At the age of five, I became familiar with the various scriptures of the world, and at the age of eight, I cooperated with my grandfather to govern the government.

Speaking of my imperial grandfather, he was really good, he dominated David at a young age, and even forced the Yue Ghost Kingdom, which was the most powerful of the five barbarian countries, to retreat more than 200 kilometers. Weiguo is also under the governance of the emperor's grandfather, it can be said that it is the country of the Celestial Empire, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the court sings and dances, and the surrounding affiliated small countries do not dare to have a trace of half-heartedness when they pay tribute.

Unfortunately, I died of illness within a few years of my birth. Only my father who recited poetry and lyrics was left, and me, who couldn't speak, Princess Frostbutterfly.

His father ascended the throne and changed his country name to Yanqing.

One of the biggest problems in our country is that there are too few heirs, unlike the other five barbarian countries, where each person has to give birth to seven or eight. My grandfather was the only son of my father, and my father was the only princess. It's like a curse, no matter how many births you have, you can only survive the last one.

But I was weak and sickly since I was a child, and I couldn't speak. To put it bluntly, he is a sick man who can't speak.

If I hadn't stumbled upon a very Taoist master when I was a teenager, I probably wouldn't be alive today.

I waved my hand and beckoned Lamei to take out the box of spirit stones left by Master before he attained enlightenment and spread them on the ground to keep warm.

This time I came to the border city because the master instructed me to come to the Nanming Hot Spring here in the border city every year to take a dip, which has the effect of prolonging my life.

I stood under the porch and stretched out my hand, it was the first snow in the border city this year.

The ice crystals fluttering in the sky are a sight that has never been seen in the capital, and the coldness of the tentacles has a different kind of warmth. If my father is lucky enough to take a look, he will definitely write poems for a few days and nights.

"Princess, princess, look."

I followed the direction of Lamei's finger, but I didn't expect that the temperature of the spirit stone would cause the red plum in the courtyard to bloom. The small bones that were originally like blood jade gradually bloomed, and the snow that had just fallen was also working hard, gently pulling away layer by layer.

Red is embedded with white, and I can't help but think of the poem that my father chanted for a long time - Nine Doubts Cloud Broken Soul Cry. Acacia blood, all green branches.

"Princess, let's fold a few and put them in the hall." Lamei said with great interest.

Before I could nod my head, there was a bang, and I don't know what smashed in from the courtyard wall.

Startled, a courtyard guard flashed forward, and Lamei hurriedly escorted me into the inner hall.

The border city, located on the border of the Kingdom of David and the Kingdom of Yue Ghost, has been tense all year round, and I would not have ventured here if Master hadn't said that only the hot springs here would be useful to me.

After a while, the dark guard reported that it was a seriously injured teenager who was unconscious.

I went to check, and it turned out that it was not just a teenager, but a handsome teenager with the blood on his face.

Although his eyes are closed, he can clearly see that his eyebrows are like peaks, his eyelashes are like fans, and his thin lips are like boats. The straight bridge of the nose can't help but remind me of the white jade rockery on my father's table, perhaps because of excessive blood loss, it is a little transparent, and the messy hair on that face is like a red sandalwood white hao stained with ink, resting on the white jade rockery.

He is the kind of handsome boy that his father often paints.

I arranged for someone to take care of him, and I drove to the hot springs every day to continue my rest and bathing life.

Although the eyebrows and eyes are handsome, I have seen a lot since I was a child, and they are really not enough for me to take to heart.

It's just that at that time, no one expected that in a few days, I would engrave that person's life in my heart.

That night, I found an excuse to retreat from the crowd, and secretly hid in the courtyard alone and drank the wine hidden in the courtyard for a long time, and suddenly missed my father very much, and felt that his life of chanting poetry and making tea every day was really enviable.

Suddenly, I heard a burst of piano sound, the melodious sound of the piano was not like the extravagant sound in the palace, but there was some fairy wind and bone-wide realm, which was quite similar to what the master played.

I followed the sound through the courtyard, and I saw a young man in white under the moonlight, beside the rockery, under the plum tree, caressing the guqin that Master gave me. The sound of the piano overflowed from under the green fingers, and I was so drunk that I was drunk in it.

After a long time, the sound of the piano stopped, and when I came back to my senses, the young man actually walked up to me and said, "Yang Qiong, thank you for the grace of saving your life." ”

Only then did I realize that this was the boy I saved that day, and I only knew that he was handsome that day, but I didn't think that he would change his clothes and look so good.

Xu is a little strong, those amber eyes stared at me, like ink-soaked dew, like the Milky Way River crossed by stars, as if they wanted to drag me in and drown in the next second.

I know I'm probably in love.

I waved my hand.

In fact, if I can speak, how much I want to say, the piano in your hand is called Tongjun, and so am I.

Since that night, he has always talked to me a lot, although I can't speak, but I found that he agrees with many of my ideas, he understands my way of doing things, and we seem to be able to communicate with each other without words, like confidants.

In the thirteenth year of Yan Qing, in the first month, I promised to take him back to Beijing.

I appointed Yang Qiong as the supervisor of the princess's mansion, responsible for helping me deal with other affairs that I didn't have time to deal with.

Since then, we've never talked like we did. Maybe it's because I'm too busy to take care of it.

But it is true that after having Yang Qiong, I am much more relaxed, and what he does is as I want.

In the fourteenth year of Yan Qing, in October, the patriarch of the Three Dynasties, Luo Taifu, openly proposed in the court that the princess Si Chen should be punished with death. and contacted a group of old ministers to plot to assassinate the princess and marry the girl of his own family into the palace in order to find a new heir.

In November, Mrs. Luo and his henchmen were found dead in their homes.

I killed it.

I shook my neck, which was stiff from the review of the recital, and listened to Yang Qiong's return.

"Do you think I'm cruel?" I asked, gesturing.

In fact, what they said is right, it is true that maybe if I die, my father can have a new heir. And I am indeed the chicken Si Chen, who has been in charge of national politics for many years.

"The princess just doesn't want them to disturb the court and give the barbarian kingdoms a chance."

I rubbed my head and my hands paused, and he knew.

Many people can guess that I did it, and think that I am just trying to get revenge on them for hurting me behind their backs. But actually, I'm used to it. All I am worried about is the civil strife in the court, which will lead to the instability of the frontier. A group of sour masters who are accustomed to reading the books of the world, how can they know the difficulties of the border city.

But it's just so many things that everyone doesn't know, Yang Qiong actually understands me, and I don't think any gossip matters for a while.

I picked up a pen and wrote four big characters and handed them to Yang Qiong, which read: Be kind to your family

In the fifteenth year of the Yan Qing Dynasty, winter went to spring, and the whole of Kyoto could no longer find any plum blossoms in full bloom, and spring began.

The Dragon Gate Banquet after the Spring Festival is specially used to feast the students who jumped into the Dragon Gate. My father has done a good job of holding banquets like this, and it is his specialty to get the poems right, and I will one day be able to run out and drink openly.

Xu is a little dizzy after drinking, and the weather in spring is already a little hot. I withdrew from everyone and sat in the lake pavilion in the middle of the house to admire the moon, wanting to sober up.

In the hazy moonlight, a white dress slowly approached, it was Yang Qiong.

I motioned for him to sit beside me, probably because he had drunk too much, and his body was weak, so I couldn't help leaning on him.

"Princess, you're drunk."

I waved my hand, got up and staggered closer, a little unsteady and was held by his hand, leaning into his arms, touching the tip of his nose and covering his eyes.

Why do you have such beautiful eyes?

"Princess, the status of the minister is low, and she shouldn't be like this."

I really want to tell him, Ah Qiong, are you annoyed that I didn't tell you my identity? Do you know I like you a lot? I've been sitting in that hall since I was a child, and no one has ever talked to me and asked me if this is the day I want. But they prefer to talk about me, and I know that I still have to protect them when they talk about me! How I want to hide for a while and let them see the days without me! But I can't. I tell myself every day how nice it would be if I were a man. I can rightfully inherit the unification and protect the country that my ancestors laid down single-handedly. But I'm a woman. But you're different, you don't think there's anything wrong with what I'm doing. You haven't questioned why I'm doing this. You recognize me and understand me. But why did you become like a stranger after returning to Beijing?

I flipped open his palm and wrote in the palm of his hand, "Why? ”

"The minister thinks that the minister's behavior is the greatest support for the princess and helps the princess guard David's country."

I want you to guard me even more.

Yang Qiong continued: "The minister also wants to guard the princess, but the minister is afraid that if he continues to guard it, he will think about the princess and deviate. The princess is like the light of the sun and the moon, and the minister is just a piece of sand in the world, how dare she shine with the sun and the moon. ”

Fingertips slid the four words over the palm of his hand.

Yang Qiong, what if I allow you to like me? Because, I like you.

It was only the next morning that I woke up and remembered, and when I opened my eyes and saw the mess on the ground and the person lying on the bed, I realized how serious my drunken gaffe was.

He staggered and fled, and wrote the edict by hand on the same day.

In the fifteenth year of Yan Qing, July 7, a sunny and good day.

Ten miles of red makeup, I married myself with the most solemn gift in the world, and married Yang Qiong, a colt, back home.

There are rumors in the court that the horse has too much power to participate in the military reform, but I think that what he did was exactly what I wanted to do, and he used the identity I always wanted to use, the identity of a man. I tried my best to send him to the throne to participate in the government politics, and he really lived up to my trust, and reformed some bad habits in the military camp very well.

A month without incident, my happiest month. He was very good at managing politics, and he was very good to me, and he was also very good to my father.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the dark guard came to report that the frontier map was lost.

The tea I was holding in my hand burned my hand.

The top of the frontier map is David's most detailed military intelligence, and losing it is equivalent to exposing David's major frontier defenses to all countries without any concealment.

I searched for a few days, killed several people, and finally, I finally guessed.

Mid-Autumn Festival, still moonlit night, still white.

"It's you." My lips trembled a little as I made such a mouth shape.

Not only are my lips trembling, but my hands are shaking. Even then, I still wanted to protect Ichigo.

In response to me, Yang Qiong sneered and said coldly: "I was thinking, how long will it take you to find me." ”

The tone seemed to be that of a prodigal son who won a casino bet, with provocation and contempt.

I held out my hand and motioned for him to hand over the drawing.

"Do you think it's possible?"

Actually, I should have thought that his nose was so straight, like the nose of a savage.

After so many years, which sentence is true and which sentence is false?

I wanted to open my mouth and ask him if he really liked me.

But in fact, it doesn't matter what the answer is, his injury has been a game from the beginning, a game that has lured me to never recover.

Although I have recaptured the map, I know that he has already spread the word, and the frontier can no longer be peaceful.

Once, I thought that you were my soulmate, and I finally had the opportunity to make a voice out to the world. But in the end, it was still a piece, and everything was silent.

With tears in my eyes, I raised my hand and said, "This is a long way to go, the road is long, and I hope you will cherish it." ”

But I didn't say the rest of it.

It should be, in this life and this life, we will never see each other again.

Everything in this world is like this, the more you hope for it, and even if you get it, the more you will lose it.

So after all, is it more sad not to get it, or is it more painful to lose it after getting it?

Between you and me, the distance between you and me will be a national enemy and a family hatred, and there will be no warmth.

The door is condensed in twilight, and the corner of the building is remnant.

But I still couldn't bear it and let him go. Maybe this is why we Central Plains people are not as ruthless as savages.

I looked at his back without a hint of hesitation, disappearing from the eaves like sunlight, gradually dimming, no longer bright.

Stand in front of the steps until the moon sets, and the incense is printed into ashes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has finally passed, and the white tea is happy, all of which are swept into cold smoke, and a pillow of Huai'an.

Early the next morning, I personally pleaded guilty to my father and prepared to set out for the battle.

My father cried, and that was the first time I had seen him cry. When the imperial grandfather scolded, he was cynical; When the officials accused, he was still like that. But on the day I went out, he cried.

He said, he's sorry for me, and I can't be a good father to protect my daughter.

We who were born in the emperor's family have many unsatisfactory things. I have enjoyed the riches of the sky, and I will not complain. I just sighed that I couldn't protect that side anymore.

When I arrived at the courtyard when I first met, I had already received the news that Yang Qiong, no, it should be said that Baili Yunqiong was crowned prince.

Fortunately, my earlier deployment was rigorous, and although I was given the first advantage by the Hundred Miles Cloud Dome, I would not be defeated in one blow. It's just that it's really hard to support.

He came and secretly met me once and told me that he could unite the Wild and David, and that as long as I cooperated, I could go from being a princess to a queen, his queen.

But I know, I can't.

My father is still here, and as long as I am there, the kingdom will not fall for a day, and David will not be destroyed.

This battle has been fought for nearly a year, and it has been fought very hard, and the people are very bitter, and everyone is very bitter. No matter how hard I tried, I missed the opportunity early.

In the sixteenth year of Yan Qing, June 26, it was rainy.

The Secret Guard handed me a letter with the news of my father's death.

It turned out that he had put chronic poison in the things he offered in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which laid the root of today's bane.

I vomited out a mouthful of blood, and the blood scattered in the water was like the plum blossom that bloomed when I rescued him that day. It turns out that many things were already fixed at that time.

I can't protect my father anymore, I can't protect myself, and what I can do now is only to protect the people of this city.

Looking at the direction of Kyoto, he kowtowed three times, and ordered the generals to open the city gate to welcome the hundred miles of cloud dome into the city.

I believe that he will protect the people of this city for me.

Rushing back to Kyoto, where I had lived for more than 20 years, I signed the surrender as a princess and issued the last edict - the whole country was not allowed to resist, and the whole country surrendered.

If my father is alive, maybe I can fight again. And I, a princess, in the eyes of these people, no matter how hard I try, no matter how good I do, I still can't be their king, just because I'm not a man. Being criticized, questioned, and a mistake will be held on, just because I am a woman.

Perhaps, I was originally a joke.

After many years of being the king behind this country, I ask myself every day what is a country?

Is it my high status? Or is it the surname of our Luo family? Or is it this inch of land?

No, it's every one of the people here.

Without a people, there is no country.

But as long as the people are happy, the kingdom of David will always be there.

Finally, he glanced at the ninety-nine-eighty-one white jade steps in front of him, which symbolized the supreme position, and his eyes flashed with the brilliance of the past and the fairy-like boy.

I smiled and hung myself on the beam of the main hall.

In the sixteenth year of the Yan Qing Dynasty, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the kingdom of David died.

Postscript:

My name is Baili Yunqiong, and I am in love with someone I shouldn't be in love with.

I tried to get her to trust me, but I didn't expect her to fall in love with me, and I didn't expect me to fall in love with her.

My mother was a plundered David, so I grew up uncared for at the junction of the two countries. Until one day, the monarch of Yue Ghost Country spread the word that he was old and asked me to lurk David, and if I returned victoriously and regained the lost land, I could become the new monarch of Yue Ghost Kingdom.

I know this promise, and He gave him all his offspring.

I hate Yue Ghost Country, but I also hate David. The monarch of the Yue Ghost Kingdom destroyed my mother's original peace and joy, and David left my mother and me to live in dire straits.

I want to become the new monarch of the Yue Ghost Country, stand in the place where power is most concentrated, and open a new chapter.

So there was such a game, and it was successful.

That girl from the capital is really a legendary princess, and I was able to insert it into the center of David in just half a year.

I drugged, stole the map, and attacked the city. But I didn't want to save her irrationally.

I want to possess her, lock her in the palace, and even though I know that she will not yield to me if I take David, then I will snatch her up.

As long as we grab it, it's a big deal to lock it for a lifetime, and we can continue to do it for a long time.

But I didn't expect her to fall.

She is such a backbone person, such a proud person, and such a person who endures humiliation and burden, and she has actually descended.

Under her edict, I attacked the capital without a single soldier.

I kept wondering how I could open my mouth and persuade her to be my queen.

For example, I told her how about we govern our country together. Yue Ghost David is a family.

Or I'll just find someone to lock her up and find someone to watch her day and night.

But I didn't expect that when I climbed the steps, I saw bare feet hanging in the air.

A pair of feet that I know more than I can be more familiar with.

Because of her poor health, I held and helped her soak her feet in medicinal water every day, and helped her warm her feet in my arms at night.

And now, hanging in front of me, I dare not look up at her departing appearance.

Luo Tongjun, why don't you wait for me?

I am the new king, and I will have the power to protect you, just as you did in this great palace.

I would like to choose to bury her with a princess's ceremony.

I think she should be willing.

But there was one thing I didn't expect, and that was the pedantry and resentment of the people. On the way through the street, a large number of eggs and vegetable leaves were smashed over. The people's insults could not be stopped, even if I sent troops to suppress them.

When I arrived, I saw a smashed coffin, stained dresses, and gnawed bodies.

At this moment, I suddenly understood what the difference was between Yue Ghost and David.

The savages are ferocious and regard life as mustard; But what difference did the Davidians make? The rules and traditions in their minds are sometimes more terrible than those of the savages.

In the coffin is their best princess, the kindest princess and the most wronged princess. She used the strength of one person to support the country of Nuoda in the world, and when she was dying, she exchanged the life of one person for the peace of the whole country.

But in the eyes of the people of David, she is a princess who has lost her country, a princess who surrendered, and a princess who has no backbone.

Yue Ghost, David, I will help you keep it, that is all your peace and joy.