Chapter XII

Chu Yu was practicing in the courtyard with a sword, and Prince Rouran walked over, "Girl." ”

She gathered her sword and turned to look at him and saluted, "Your Highness the Prince." ”

He reached out to help her, "I like your tea." He didn't call himself Prince Ben, he just said an "I".

"It is an honor for the slave to make His Royal Highness the prince like the slave's tea."

"The girl's mouth is so sweet, I like it very much."

"To be able to thank His Royal Highness the Prince, the slave is really fortunate for three lives."

"Are you willing to marry me as my princess, and you won't have to be respectful to anyone in the future."

"Your Royal Highness, the slave is just a little maidservant, how can she be your princess?"

"I don't care who you are, I only care about your people."

"The slave maid is just a little maidservant, how can she get the mercy of His Royal Highness the Prince?"

"You are different from other women, not as cowardly and timid as other women, I felt that you were different when I first saw you, trying to understand you, to get close to you, you are the only person I like."

"Actually, I'm not as good as you say, I will cry and be afraid, so Your Highness and slave hope that you can dispel this idea."

"I fell in love with someone for the first time in my life, I will never give up so easily, I know that the person in your heart is Zhou Ci, but I will definitely make you forget him, and then really fall in love with me."

After saying that, he turned around and left, and Chu Yu said categorically from behind him: "I won't marry you!" ”

This scene was seen by Zhou Ci, who was standing in the corner, and he turned to leave.

When she came to Zhou Ci's door, she did not knock on the door, but said to Zhou Ci inside: "Ah Ci, I want to ask you, if one day I have to marry someone else, will you give up me?" ”

Zhou Ci opened the door and said to her, "There won't be that day." ”

"I mean if."

"There are no ifs." He interrupted her, "It's getting late, let's go back and rest early." With that, he closed the door.

Chu Yu stood outside for a long time before leaving.

Zhou Ci leaned against the door, feeling complicated in his heart.

Zhou Ci didn't see Chu Yu in the past few days, Zhou Ci thought that she must be unhappy because of what happened that night, so he came to her room to look for her, and when he saw that there was no one, he asked Gu Jingyan on the side, "What has Ah Yu been busy with lately?" I didn't see anyone for a few days. ”

"I don't know what she's been doing these days."

Zhou Ci turned around and left without saying a word, and Gu Jingyan followed.

Chu Yu has been busy preparing fireworks for the past few days, and when the fireworks are launched in the sky at night, Zhou Ci looked up at the fireworks in the sky, Chu Yu walked over, and Zhou Ci looked at her.

Zhou Ci stepped forward to explain to her what happened last night and said to her: "I ...... yesterday"

She stood in front of him and interrupted him, "Ah Ci, I like you. ”

Hearing her words, Zhou Ci frowned, "I ......"

"Whether you like me or not, I'm going to gamble."

"Ah Ci, do you like me?" She asked, holding his hand.

"I can't ......," he said. He lowered his head and tried to suppress himself, his fists clenched tightly.

"Can you tell me why?"

"Because I have someone I like." He looked up at her.

"You have someone you like, but why don't I know?" She looked at him and asked.

"I've known her for a long time, but you don't know."

"I've known each other for a long time."

"So I can't." He said firmly.

He left her alone and left.

She was rejected like this, she knew the result, but she did it anyway, even if she was rejected in the end, she had no regrets.

He sat in his room and thought to himself: he rejected her, she must be sad now.

The two of them spent the night with their own hearts.

Chu Yu came to Li Shuxing for a drink and said to him: "I can't ask for it now as I write in the book, he has someone he likes, he already has someone he likes, but the person he likes is not me." ”

Li Shuxing looked at her with distress in his eyes, she was rejected, shouldn't he be happy, but why is he so sad.

She was drunk unconscious, crawled on the table, and fell asleep.

Li Shuxing brushed away her bangs with his hand, just looked at her like this, and I don't know how long it took, he got up and hugged her around his waist and put down the silver and left.

He sent her back to the prince's mansion, and as soon as she got off the carriage, Zhou Ci walked out of the mansion, looked at Chu Yu who was in Li Shuxing's arms, frowned, and stepped forward and said, "Give her to me, Lord Lao Fan Li will send the people from my mansion back." ”

After saying that, he took the person in his arms.

"Ah Yu is my friend, and she should send her back."

"Slow down and don't send it." Zhou Ci didn't even look at him and turned around.

After saying that, he hugged her and walked to the house.

Sent her back to the room, put her on the bed, looked at her drunken appearance, reached out and stroked her face, a little distressed.

May you live this life so simply, even if it's just by your side.

The next day, Chu Yu woke up and recalled that she was rejected by Zhou Ci last night, she knew that he was unintentional, he just had his beloved, she climbed on the table, "But he doesn't like me," she sat up straight, "No, I can't give up yet, we have known each other for so long, there must be hope." ”

She went into the kitchen early in the morning to cook, and the oil was cheap on her hands, and a few bubbles were scalded.

Zhou Ci looked at Chu Yu, who had made a table of dishes for him, and wanted to say something.

"It's my business to be good to you, you don't have to be embarrassed by this, we can't be lovers, and it's okay to be friends." She interrupted him with a smile.

Gu Jingyan thought to herself that she was really heartless, she still looked like she couldn't ask for it last night, and she left all the sadness of last night behind after only one night.

Zhou Ci knew that she had no heart and lungs, and thought: It's okay like this, she won't be sad about it anymore.

"Sit down and eat." She took him by the hand and walked to the dining table.

He saw a few bubbles burning on her hands and said, "What's wrong with your hands?" ”

"It's okay, I just accidentally got burned."

He turned to look at the dishes on the table and asked, "You made all this?" ”

"Well, I did it."

"When did Ah Yu learn to cook?"

"It's not that hard to learn what you just learned."

He sat down and picked up chopsticks and took a bite of a piece of meat, Chu Yu saw that Zhou Ci's face was a little wrong and asked, "How is it, is it delicious?" ”

He looked up at her, "Ah Yu is really talented, and she made it so delicious the first time." ”

"Really, I'll try it too."

He covered the dishes on the table with his hands and said, "Since this is Ah Yu's intention, then I must finish eating." ”

"If you like to eat it so much, then I will make it for you every day in the future."

Zhou Ci looked up at her and nodded without smiling.

I thought: It looks like there is still a play.

She returned to the room and saw the hairpin on the table, and a note: Ah Yu made a table of dishes for me, and as a return gift, I made a hairpin for Ah Yu, I hope Ah Yu will like it.

She picked up the hairpin and put it in her arms, and she was very happy.

She came to Zhou Ci's door with pastries and a hairpin that Zhou Ci had placed in her room at some point, and heard the conversation between the emperor and Zhou Ci.

"What is it to sacrifice a little maidservant for the sake of Da Wei, when she marries Rouran, the two places will be peaceful forever, and she will get everything she wants."

"Your Majesty."

"Don't you tell me what else you have in mind for her?!"

"No, the minister just wants to ask the emperor to let the minister be her family history and escort her to marry." He said indifferently.

"You don't really have anything else to think of her." The emperor still asked uneasily.

"In the past ten years, she is just a tool cultivated by the minister, ready to make sacrifices for Dawei at any time, he is the daughter of the enemy who killed his mother, how can the minister be emotional about the enemy's daughter, if she does something wrong one day, I will also kill her."

"I'm relieved if you think so, I'll promise you."

"Your Majesty."

She hid in the corner and wept silently, holding a hairpin in her hand.

Kill your mother's enemy.

It turns out that she is the daughter of his enemy, and he treats her well only to gain her trust and uses her?

At night, she lay on the bed, remembering the words of the day and shed tears, Zhou Ci turned out that I was just a victim of your cultivation, but I gave you my most precious things.

When the emperor said that he would marry her to Rouran, she accepted the decree without hesitation.

She said: "If I marry Rouran and can bring benefits to Dawei, then I will marry." ”

Such a move surprised him, with her character, she would definitely resist on weekdays, but she didn't resist but agreed.

At night, she stood alone under the moon, and Zhou Ci came over: "Ah Yu." ”

She turned to him and asked, "Do you want me to marry too?" ”

"Why do you ask?"

"Nothing."

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with that." He said.

"I see, you go." She turned her back to him again, leaving only a trace of her back for him.

Zhou Ci looked at her for a moment, then turned around and left.

He never knew that her heart was completely cold at this moment.

She didn't even glance at the dowry offered by Prince Rouran's people, turned around and ran away.

The night before the kiss, she took Zhou Ci to the deserted field, "Ah Ci, I'll ask you one last time, don't you have a little bit of a heart for me?" ”

"I ......," he said, looking at her.

"I said that I only love her alone in my life, and if you entangle her again, I will kill you." Just now, she was a little hesitant and didn't know how to answer, but now her face changed and she glared at her angrily.

"You won't." She said.

She wanted to go up and hug him, but she felt a chill in her chest, she looked down and saw a cold sword piercing into her chest, she looked up at the person holding the sword, looking at him in disbelief.

Her mind kept ringing up the words he had said that day: "If one day she does something wrong, I will kill her too, I will kill her, kill her." ”

Zhou Ci drew his sword and turned to leave.

Her body fell backwards, and she slowly closed her eyes as she watched the dark night sky.

Li Shuxing saw Chu Yu who fell to the ground, "Ah Yu! ”

He picked her up and ran towards the house.

Chu Yu has been in a coma, and the emperor can only step back from the matter of harmony, and inform the prince of Rouran, Chu Yu, who is seriously ill and cannot be reconciled with her, so he can only wait for her to wake up.

Chu Yu has been in a coma for a year, and this year, Zhou Ci has never appeared.

In the dream, Chu Yu saw Zhou Ci standing with his back and ran over to call, "Ah Ci." ”

Zhou Ci turned around, Chu Yu looked at him, and suddenly a sharp sword stabbed her in the chest.

She fell backwards, her hand tugging at his sleeve, and he brushed it away, turning away.

She opened her eyes, looked at the top of the bed, and was silent.

Li Shuxing, who had been guarding her, saw that she was awake, "Ah Yu, you are awake." ”

She looked at Li Shuxing and said, "Book line." ”

When the emperor learned that she was awake, he sent someone to bring her wedding dress.

Since Chu Yu woke up, Li Shuxing has not mentioned Zhou Ci, and Chu Yu has not asked.

When the red wedding dress was spread on the long floor, she put the hairpin that Zhou Ci had given her in a wooden box, covered it with a lid, and said goodbye to everything in the past.

Looking at herself in a daze in the mirror, the maidservant girl next to her put on makeup for her, and when she saw her sullen face, she comforted: "Don't be sad, in fact, there is nothing wrong with marrying Prince Rouran, everything you want in the future will be there, this is what all girls dream of." ”

"Do you all think so?"

She was speechless at what she said, and she continued, "But I don't want to." ”

When she was about to get into the carriage, Zhou Ci stopped her: "Ah Yu, you can rest assured that you will marry, I have already arranged everything." ”

She turned around and got into the carriage, and Zhou Ci rode on a horse and walked in front of the carriage, when a group of black-clothed people and the people who escorted her suddenly committed suicide on the way, and when there was chaos, Li Shuxing lifted the curtain and said, "Ah Yu, I'm here." ”

Zhou Ci thought of Chu Yu in the carriage and walked over worriedly, and as soon as he opened the curtain, he found that the carriage was empty, and Chu Yu was gone.

Zhou Ci did not let his subordinates report the matter of robbing relatives to the emperor, so he thoroughly investigated the matter alone.

In the days that Chu Yu was in the wooden house, Li Shuxing also accompanied her for a few days, and her escape from marriage would definitely anger the emperor and offend Rouran, and she dragged him down again.

I don't know when the person in front of me has grown into an adult, and he is no longer the child who swallows everything in his belly.

She said to Li Shuxing: "Go back quickly, so as not to make the emperor suspicious." ”

"Okay, then I'll go back."

"Take care of yourself."

"Well, don't worry."

Chu Yu learned that another woman had married Rouran instead of her, and she didn't have to hide anymore, anyway, the emperor had never seen her face seriously, and he didn't have any impression of her, and he couldn't recognize her.

It seems that she is not so important in Zhou Ci's heart, even if he finds out that she is gone, he just chooses to find another person to replace her, without hindering his task at all, and he doesn't care about her life and death, it is just his own wishful thinking from beginning to end.

Zhou Ci recalled the scene in front of the carriage, when he opened the curtain, saw that there was no one in the carriage, some surprise and panic, at this time it had a medicinal seizure and lay on the ground, woke up again, and saw a red-clothed figure in confusion, walking with a long sword, swinging the sword and chopping, he said a little weakly: "You ......"

"Since you have failed me, you should accept such punishment."

The sword fell on him, and he fainted again.

A long time ago, he planned to steal the beam and change the pillar to replace her with another body similar to her, and the woman who would change her appearance took her place and concealed it from the emperor, but on the way to the relatives, he encountered a change and the bride was robbed, although he knew who the person who robbed the bride was, but he still continued the plan, and deceived the emperor and did not report it to the emperor.

On the open road, Chu Yu wore a hat and held a long sword and passed by a carriage, at the same time, several people in black appeared, killed the entourage outside the carriage, opened the curtain, and a woman in pink clothes and a beautiful appearance flew out of the carriage, struck the man in black with one palm, drew his sword and fought with the man in black, and his arm was not scratched in the fight, Chu Yu rushed over to kill all the people in black when he saw this, collected his sword and turned to look at her: "Girl, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine, thank you girl for coming to the rescue."

"You're injured, I'll take you to bandage it."

She took her to her lodgings and bandaged her wounds.

The woman asked, "Girl, what's your name?" ”

"My name is Chu Yu."

She was the second person to ask her what her name was, which reminded her of the scene when she first met Zhou Ci.

The young man stood with his back in white clothes.

"Then can I call you Ah Yu?"

The woman's words pulled her back from her thoughts.

"Absolutely."

"My name is Yuan Ying, so you can call me Ah Ying."

"A-Ying."

Yuan Ying lived in the wooden house for a few days, and one day a carriage came to pick her up, so she went back with them, and before parting, she said, "Don't forget to come to the palace to find me." ”

"Hmm."

She turned around and got into the carriage, Chu Yu looked at the carriage that was far away, thinking that she was really destined for the people in this palace, she finally got out of the palace, how could she go back now?

She had thought that there would be no more visible time between the two of them, but fate had once again bound her to the palace and to him.

Rouran because of the Great Wei words and no faith and raised troops to fight Chang'an, the city was in chaos, the emperor sent people to fight back the enemy, but the enemy was stronger, the city was quickly unable to hold on.

Chu Yu looked at the children and soldiers who lacked fathers and mothers on the street and the soldiers who suffered heavy casualties, all of this was caused by her, she caused these children to lose their fathers and mothers, and the soldiers lost their lives, she was sorry for these children, and even more sorry for these soldiers.

She met Prince Rouran alone, "Why did you raise an army to attack Chang'an?" ”

"Because of you." He said.

"Do you think you can fool me by marrying someone similar to you in your place?"

"If it's just because I've killed so many people, I'd rather die in exchange for their peace."

"Would you rather die than marry me?"

"Yes, because I have died so many people will only make me feel guilty for the rest of my life, withdraw the troops, it's not worth it for me."

"No, you deserve it, I promise you to withdraw your troops and no longer hurt anyone, but you also promise me to live well."

"Okay, I promise you."

Prince Rouran handed a letter to the emperor: You Dawei can have such a loyal person, this prince is really envious, but it is a pity that this prince is not blessed to marry such a good woman.

The emperor knew that the person who helped them this time was the one who saved the princess last time, so Zhou Ci took this opportunity to give her a new identity and asked the emperor for a position for her.

The emperor called her into the palace and named her the general of Great Wei.

After Zhou Ci learned about it, she felt that this was fine, she had a place to go, and she didn't have to wander around anymore.

"She's done this to you, and you've been thinking about her."

"I hope she has a better life and can forget the pain of the past."

I hope that she will do what she wants in this life and live the life she wants, and she will silently guard her side and protect her for the rest of her life.