Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Difference Between Honor and Disgrace
Streamer lay on the ground and coughed up blood, and the holy woman, who had been sitting silently on the altar, suddenly hid her face and wept.
The attendant lady hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, and there was a small mess on the altar.
How can a saint of supreme purity weep because of the contest to select the king?
The onlookers looked at each other, not knowing why the saint suddenly cried when she saw it, but they could also figure it out that the scene on the martial arts platform in the middle of the mirror lake was indeed too worrying.
The boy was going to be beaten to death.
It was too painful, Streamer slowly wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, heard the cry of the saint, and reluctantly looked up in the direction of the altar, but his body was as heavy as if he had been filled with lead, and he couldn't lift his head at all, and he couldn't see the face of the saint, and he could only see a little crimson skirt in his sight, decorated with a piece of cyan feathers, lonely and sad, and he couldn't fly in the free blue sky anymore.
His vision suddenly blurred.
"The streamer is easy to throw people, red cherries and green plantains. β
Streamer held a book of poems and read it on the window railing, did his name come from such beautiful verses?
"yes, Daddy's name for the streamer is nice. β
The gentle woman in the dark hair dress on the side laughed, her blue eyes were like an infinite ocean flowing between water and sky, quiet and far-reaching, and she reached out and rubbed her gentle and soft waist-length hair.
Streamer turned his head and blinked a pair of blue eyes that were exactly the same as his sister, and asked expectantly, "Sister, when can we see Daddy again?"
The gentle woman's fingertips stopped, and she sighed wordlessly, "Streamer, Daddy has ...... Daddy is very busy, and it won't be until a long, long time before he can come to see us again, and before that, promise me that you can't talk about Daddy in front of my mother again, or my mother will be angry. β
It's just a hairy child who has not been deeply involved in the world, the streamer blinked, innocent, and asked curiously: "Why can't you mention it?"
He couldn't understand the wry smile on Sister A's face, "...... Mother wants to do it, so when it comes to daddy, mother will ...... It's going to be sad, so I promised my sister not to mention my father's business. β
Streamer nodded and responded with a smile.
Outside the door, there was the voice of a female official saluting respectfully.
Sister Ah hurriedly pulled up the streamer and stood up, waiting for the person to come in at the door solemnly.
"Mother. β
The woman who walked in, dressed in dark clothes, although she was called a mother and had been a mother for several years, but her face was as bright as a peach blossom tree in spring, her skin was smooth and delicate, and she looked no different from the face of a teenage girl, but her demeanor was dignified, with some unsmiling holiness and solemnity.
Listening to their respectful salute, she nodded indifferently and hummed lightly.
Streamer wanted to rush over and talk to his mother, but Sister Ah grabbed him hard.
She didn't care about their subtleties at all
The action, which directly stated the purpose of the trip, carried an irresistible majesty.
"Liuli, from today onwards, you will go to the temple of the Holy Maiden to live. β
Children who are appointed to live in the temple of the Holy Virgin will be the next saint in three years.
That would be the supreme glory!
"Mother, Mother, I beg you to take back your order!"
Streamer looked at Sister A's eyes wide in puzzlement, her body kept trembling, like a thunderbolt on her body on a sunny day, and she suddenly knelt down and begged, and even her voice choked with horror.
Why?
What an honor it is to be chosen as a saint, to ascend to the position of a saint and accept the worship of all people, why is Sister so reluctant?
Mother has five or six daughters, although except for Sister A, she is not the same father as everyone else.
Among so many daughters, I am so lucky to be able to choose Sister A!
He's so happy for his sister!
Before she could persuade Sister A, the holy woman who was still indifferent after listening to Liuli's continuous pleading opened her mouth.
"As an orphan child, this is your mission. β
The woman clapped her hands indifferently, and soon a female officer walked in respectfully and took Sister A, who was still begging hard.
Her cry was intermittent in the palace corridor, and Streamer couldn't help but run two steps towards the door, and when he noticed his mother's gaze following, he quickly stopped.
The gaze was holy and cold, without a little warmth, and he shuddered.
Ruri was taken away, and Streamer never saw her again for a year after that.
Streamer regrets a little because he's not doing very well now.
The gentle but watertight glass that has protected him left, and he found that life was very difficult.
Over the course of a year, he was almost all deserted.
Although he was promoted to the title of His Royal Highness Nanfeng in the South Country because he was his mother's child, he could no longer go out at will, and he was not even allowed to visit Sister Ah near the Holy Maiden Hall.
Not only that, he was often harshly criticized by the indifferent palace people, and he never ate the delicious pastries that Sister Ah ate when she was there, and even his favorite poetry collection was taken away by the female officials, which was a gift from his father.
He also heard about his father, and suddenly understood why Sister had such a dark look when talking about his father that day.
The two female officers did not shy away from discussing his father's whereabouts in front of him.
"There was a great warrior in this Tuoba Festival, the previous king did not defend the throne, and was executed a few days ago!"
"Yes, I heard that it was the punishment of Her Highness the Holy Maiden herself. β
"Don't say it, I knew it would be like this, the previous king was a foreigner, he was very handsome, his eyes were as beautiful as sapphires, he knew it at a glance, it was very weak!
"yes, haha, but he can
There are two children of the Holy Maiden's Highness, who must die without regrets! Besides, there is also His Highness Liuli who has been elected to the position of the Holy Maiden, and it must be worth dying!"
Streamer rushed over angrily and reached out and nudged them hard.
"Shut up! What are you talking about!"
The two female officers were pushed and stumbled and almost fell, and one of them turned around directly and pushed the streamer to the ground in annoyance, and said in an impatient tone: "What, say that your father's loser said that you are not happy?"
Seeing the young streamer fall to the ground in embarrassment, her eyes were already welling up with tears, which was particularly distressing, she covered her mouth and smiled, and said with a smile to her companions: "Haha, you look at him so pitiful!
Another female official squatted down, but still looked at him condescendingly, and sneered: "Tell me, this person! The same father, the fate is different, His Royal Highness Liuli is the next saintess, what about you? You can only bear the false name of a highness, eat and wait for death without any achievements, and be laughed at for a lifetime!"
Before the next saint is chosen, all the children of the saint will be raised by the royal family in a nest of flowers and wealth. However, once the next saintess is chosen, the children who are not selected are equivalent to being abandoned by the royal family, and their status is even lower than that of the female officials in the palace.
Streamer bit his lip and wiped his tears, but found that the more he wiped them, he sobbed even though it was humiliating.
provoked the two female officials to laugh.
"I didn't know that the female officials in the palace had such courage!"
A familiar and long-lost voice sounded, and in the hazy eyes of the streamers, I saw Liuli standing at the door with an angry face, against the light, the dazzling halo, like a goddess falling from the sky, holy and noble.
The two female officers instantly fell to their knees with pale faces, prostrate and did not dare to raise their heads.
The Southern royal family has strict rules, and they only dare to make a little bit of temperament in the bedroom of an inconspicuous little character like Streamer on weekdays, and they don't dare to push down Streamer when they go out to lend 10,000 guts.
However, today he was bumped into by His Royal Highness Liuli......
Soon, a female officer who accompanied him came in and dragged the two away.
Streamer was very aggrieved in his heart, crying and threw himself into Sister A's arms.
Liuli hugged the streamer distressedly, restrained her anger, and gently patted the streamer's back to comfort her.
Streamer still wanted to cry, but this time he didn't cry out again, not because he had a completely different fate from Sister A from now on, but because his mother killed his father without care, they clearly looked very affectionate on weekdays!
Perhaps, it's just because he lives too comfortably and forgets the rules of the Southern King.
Every three years, a new king is born.
How could he be so naΓ―ve? naively thought that there were many holy daughters who were the kings of the king, and what feelings they had for their father!
For the first time, he panicked about the position of the saint.
Sister...... Will it be like this in the future?