Chang Anqing

Chapter 349
The night in Lishan is dim. Although it does not have the grace and prosperity of Chang'an, it has boundless silence and peace.At this time, the sky is full of stars dotted in the night sky, and the full moon that complements each other also sheds a clear light, covering the dark mountain forest with a bit of tenderness.

Amidst the rustling of the dress, Li Sui, who had changed into a tulle skirt, took Yu Nu alone towards the Leopard Garden where animals were kept. cries.

When the soldiers guarding outside the garden saw the person coming, they immediately lowered their heads and cupped their fists and said, "Princess Yuling."

Li Sui nodded when he heard the words, and as soon as Fang walked in, he saw the envoy Yuan, who had won the letter, rushing over, with a flattering smile on his face, he crossed his hands and saluted, "Princess Yuling is well."

"Get up."

Li Sui responded lazily, and saw the envoy standing up with a smile and said: "Tonight, the Leopard Garden is full of splendor, and I can win the King of Yuling, and the princess will come here in person."

Zhao Yi is there too?

Li Sui's eyes moved slightly, he looked at Leopard Garden in the depths of the lights and said, "Where is King Yuling?"

"My concubine's pet animal was injured while hunting today. King Yuling came here to take a look. He brought some food and asked about the situation. It will still be there."

As he said that, the envoy quickly added: "But the princess is at ease, I will do my best to take care of it, and your pet beast is a rare spirit beast, and it will be alive and well soon."

"It's work."

Seeing the man eloquently swiping guarantee tickets, Li Sui interrupted him.

"Don't dare, dare not, it's just my duty..."

"Take me to see it too."

Hearing Li Sui's words, the envoy of the garden quickly responded, and under his familiar leadership, Li Sui's master and servant soon came to the residence of these beasts.

I saw that each compartment occupies a large area, and there are all kinds of things in it, and it is indeed thoughtful everywhere.

"Your Majesty, you were still here just now."

Hearing the envoy Yuan whispering, Li Sui looked at the empty cubicle, and then heard the guard say: "Go back to Wangfei, envoy Yuan, Wang Chao of Yuling has gone to the training ground."

When Li Sui and his party came to the training ground, they saw one person and the two Baos getting along harmoniously in the cool night wind.

In the eyes of others, the majestic black panther Wujin, who was not close to anyone, turned into a little raccoon slave who rubbed his head against him, and Zhao Yi also smiled rarely. Although he was injured, he was not The sickly Jin Zou.

Zhao Yi, who was squatting halfway there, suddenly stood up and threw the venison out of his hand. Jin Zou and Wu Jin under their feet immediately chased after him like a gust of wind and lightning. It looked like it was pecked to the point of bleeding.

Seeing that the meat hadn't landed on the ground, Jin Zou leaped into the air ahead of Wu Jin, and opened his mouth to bite the meat tightly, like a general who has won a trophy, shaking his head and biting, making a low humming sound .

"What a golden scorpion!"

Seeing this, Zhao Yi smiled, thinking of something, and blurted out: "The temperament is to follow your unyielding master."

"Is this a compliment to me?"

Hearing a familiar voice behind him, Zhao Yi turned his head to see that the "master" of Jin Zou was standing in the dimly lit place, looking at him with a half-smile.

"The princess is here."

Seeing Zhao Yi's smile without saying a word, Li Sui looked sideways at Envoy Yuan and said, "Emissary Yuan, go back and rest."

After hearing this, the envoy Yuan hurriedly responded, "If the king and concubine need anything, just ask them."

Seeing the people behind retreat, Li Sui walked over, seemingly complaining, but his tone was ordinary.

"Jin Zai was injured just today, so if you let him run like this, you won't be afraid of the wound opening again."

After all, under Li Sui's call, both Jin Zai and Wu Jin ran back. Li Sui immediately squatted down, stroked the quiet Jin Zai under his palm, took the wound medicine from Yu Nu, and carefully put it on Jin Zai. superior.

At this moment, at a close distance, under the moonlight, and under the illumination of the lanterns in Yu Nu and Zong Ming's hands, Li Suicai clearly saw how much the wounded beast of Changle Princess was so badly wounded. .

Li Sui looked at Jin Zai at this moment and regained his childlike craving for her gentle touch, and couldn't help frowning, and said distressedly: "It should be very painful."

"They were born warriors, fighting for victory. To them, wounds are glory and brilliance. They fight and chase all their lives, and they are not afraid of death, and they will not be afraid of pain."

Listening to these words, Li Sui saw Zhao Yi's calm and serious expression, looked at each other, and Zhao Yi said gently with his eyes: "Princess, don't worry."

For some reason, upon hearing this, Li Sui couldn't help but think of more, such as him in front of him.

"What about that person?"

Zhao Yi paused slightly when he heard the words, and he didn't seem to understand, so he saw Li Sui asked again: "Is it the same for those soldiers who fought for the country and the people, and even buried in foreign countries?"

At that moment, Night Breeze rolled up the sleeves of the two of them again, and Zhao Yi's expression was touched by Feng Guo Wuhen. He stood up slowly, and then looked down at Li Sui, but he was extremely determined and heavy.

"Yes."

For some reason, upon hearing Zhao Yi's words, Li Sui felt inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

Such uneasiness, as if she tried her best to catch Ajie and Aniang, but watched them leave, just like the uneasiness of living alone in the last life in the previous life.

"Princess, do you want to go for a walk?"

Zhao Yi's inquiry sounded in his ears, and Li Sui raised his head to look at Zhao Yi. The moment she nodded, Zhao Yi's eyes seemed to be filled with spring water by the breeze, and he slowly extended his hand to her.

The moment Li Sui put his hand on it, she didn't know if it was a hallucination, but she seemed to feel that Zhao Yi's hand couldn't help but tighten a little bit, as if if she loosened it a little, she would pull away.

Zong Ming and Yu Nu had already left wisely, only the two little beasts followed Zhao Yi and Li Sui quietly, listening to the sound of the corners of their clothes slipping through the grass.

"It's your first time on the battlefield, your first time killing people, have you ever been afraid?"

The words in his ears broke the tranquility of the night, Zhao Yi didn't stop, but slowed down all the time, lighting the lamp in his hand, quietly dispelling the darkness in front of Li Sui.

"No."

In the affirmative answer, Li Sui saw Zhao Yi shaking his head, but the next moment he stopped and turned to look at the night sky, with an inexplicable silence in his eyes.

"Because I have seen them break through the city gates and wantonly kill the common people. Under their knives, men, women, old and young are no longer living people, but not even a seedling in a rice field."

Seeing Zhao Yi's gradually tense expression under the moon, Li Sui didn't say anything, just listened silently.

"I've also seen, under natural disasters, corpses littered the fields, and ordinary people would not hesitate to change their children to eat in order to survive."

Hearing this, Li Suixin twitched, but felt an instinctive discomfort.

That's right, in the homes of princes like them, if they heard this word, they would just sneer.

But they don't know at all that when a real natural disaster strikes and a person can be starved to death, in order to survive, in order not to bear the pain of hunger.

Ethics, humanity, morality, nothing is as important as a bowl of food.

Human nature prevents them from eating their own flesh and blood, so they have to exchange for the flesh and blood of others.

"So when I actually went to the battlefield, there were only two words in my eyes, heart, and mind, alive——"

At this moment, Li Sui accidentally stepped on the slippery stone because the sky hadn't noticed the gravel under his feet. Just as he was about to fall, sparks lit up in the jungle and in the forest.

Yes, Spark.

It turned out that Liu Ying spread her wings and flew because of this fright.

"Are you ok."

Hearing Zhao Yi's words, Li Sui met his concerned eyes in the provocative night fireflies and shook his head.

"There is an open space over there, go and rest."

Perhaps because he was afraid that she would fall again, Zhao Yi didn't let go of his hand, and just led her to the top of the mountain covered with grass.

When he found a stone, Zhao Yi spread the veil, and after they sat down, they could see the black mountain shadows under the moonlight, as well as the sparkling fireflies within reach.

"When I was young, my family was poor. At the age of three, Aye died of illness due to exhaustion. My mother used to wash clothes for others alone, and worked to support my sister and me. Until I was eight years old, I went to herd cattle in the family that worked for my mother. When I was a sheep, I met a wild wolf. In order to snatch a sheep from the wolf's mouth, I had to fight with it for a long time with stones I found at random. One breath left."

Hearing Zhao Yi mention his childhood for the first time, Li Sui was surprised. Looking at his calm profile, some indescribable feelings gradually arose in his heart.

Although he knew that his background was not easy, he still didn't expect that an eight-year-old child had already endured so much when he was enjoying his parents' love and a carefree life.

"Later, I was found and carried back. When I woke up again, half a month had passed."

Hearing such thrilling words become so simple in Zhao Yi's mouth, Li Sui couldn't help being touched, and saw him whispering while looking at the night where the mountain wind was whistling: "Later, I heard people say that because the high fever does not subside, everyone Said that I couldn't survive, my family was poor and couldn't afford a doctor at that time, my mother cried and took her younger sister to seek all the medical clinics to no avail."

"Until, until I met someone who said that as long as my sister is handed over to him, he will give my mother money to hire a doctor and buy food."

"Aniang knew that he was a man, but the man said that my younger sister was born with spirituality and sold to a rich family as a servant girl, and her life would not be bad. In order to save me, Aniang pushed my younger sister to him—"

Speaking of this, Li Sui's eyes were slightly hot, as if all the scenes had appeared before his eyes.

There are not many parents in the world who do not love their children, but when it comes to such a choice, what kind of pain and suffering should they bear.

"When I woke up, I couldn't see my sister. I climbed all the mountains we had been to, asked everyone I met, but I couldn't find her again. A Niang suffered a serious illness because of this, and I didn't get through it. That winter, when she was leaving, she cried with remorse and told me that my sister bought my life, so I must live on, for my sister, to find my sister, and to repent for her.”

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi smiled lightly and lowered his head, but Li Sui could see the remorse, self-blame, pain, and the unbearable surge in his eyes from the half-smile and half-sigh.

"So, I want to live, until the day I meet Xiao Wu, I have to live."

Hearing these firm words, Li Sui stretched out his hand involuntarily, and didn't see Zhao Yi turn his head until he touched the cold hand that was tense from being tightly squeezed.

"Yes, I will wait with you until the day I find her."

At this moment, the woman's gentle words were as crisp and pleasant as the sound of gold and jade.In those tender eyes, Zhao Yi even saw the star river that he saw when he was lying in front of the house when he was a child.

"It's rare to hear you talk about the past, but it reminds me of myself."

As if wanting to break the silence and make Zhao Yi forget about his past, Li Sui withdrew his hand, curled up his legs, embraced them with both hands, looked up at the sky and said with a smile: "My childhood should be happy in the eyes of others, Jin Yi Jade food, carefree, with Aye's doting, Aniang's love, and an identity that everyone envies."

"It was only later that A Niang gradually lost her smile in front of Aye, until one day, when I went to Aye with the paper kite I just made, I heard A Niang crying in the room for the first time, and angrily reprimanded her. She said , Aye is ungrateful, our Li family is an unfamiliar wolf, she regrets it, regrets marrying Aye, and regrets having children for the Li family."

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi heard Li Sui smile casually, but he could clearly see loneliness in his eyes.

"The moment I opened the door, A Niang, who was full of tears, looked at me in surprise. When I called out, I watched A Niang walk by me without looking back. At that time, I felt, Auntie If mother leaves, she will never come back."

"I chased her for a long time with the paper kite in my arms, and I don't remember how many times I fell, but until the paper kite in my hand turned into torn paper, until my hands and feet were bleeding, I couldn't catch up with her. Since then, the family Only Aye is with me, and whenever he comes to court, I don’t want to communicate with others, and gradually, I don’t like to talk, and I don’t talk to anyone except Aye.”

"Perhaps because I said less and less every day, Aye was afraid, afraid that one day I would no longer be who I am, so he took me to my aunt's house, hoping to bring me back to that lively place. The family with brothers and sisters has become the old talkative, laughing, coquettish and idiotic appearance. But to me, it is just a strange place, and I am always an outsider who cannot blend in, even my aunt and elder sister No matter how nice Dalang, Erlang, and Saburo are to me, I can't live like that."

Speaking of this, Li Sui let out a long sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Zhao Yi with ease: "Later, I heard Rong An and other sisters in the family say that I am a wild child that Aye doesn't care about, and Aniang doesn't love. They were abandoned in the Yang family."

As Li Sui said, recalling the past, his lips curled up, and he said proudly: "You know, it was the first time I fought with someone. I rushed up and grabbed her hair and slapped her , pushing and shoving with her from the ground to the flowers, and then into the pool, until she was pulled away by the rushing Ajie and Erlang. At that time, I saw her face was swollen and high, and she was scared and anxious. He stared at me in admiration."

"For this reason, Aye, who has always been gentle, lost his composure for the first time. I saw that he, who pays attention to his manners, came to see me so anxiously, and said many, many sorrys to me. He wanted to take me back to Li My aunt left me alone. She told me everything about my mother’s pain and Aye’s hard work. She made me understand that I was born to enjoy everything, so I was destined to bear everything bravely. When I was so young, I seemed to understand everything, and understood that I was not a child anymore, and I should learn to grow up."

In the silence, Li Sui smiled calmly and said: "Later, I wiped away my tears and told Aye with a smile that I would not go back, so I stayed. Yue, I was also grounded by my uncle, and everyone treated me better, caring, loving, and meticulous. Later, you all know that I was spoiled by everyone. Do everything, anyway, they are the ones who get into trouble and get scolded in the end, uncles and aunts will always let me spoil me."

"Since then, Rong An never dared to provoke me again. The brothers and sisters in the house saw that Rong An, who had always been favored by me, was beaten and punished by me, and they were even more careful with me. A tyrant."

Seeing Li Sui happily talking about these past events seemed vivid and interesting, but Zhao Yi could understand that a six or seven-year-old girl who was originally much loved lost the company of her parents overnight. It also couldn't give her the warmth and sense of security she wanted, and what kind of cold eyes and hatred would be given to her by the Chen family of the same blood.

How can such loneliness be so simple.

But he knew that it was precisely because of this that she was so strong, like a green pine growing on the top of Gale Mountain, firmly grasping the rock, refusing to bend down and show weakness.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi smiled back.

Because he knew what she wanted was never someone else's sympathy.

"why are you laughing?"

Hearing Li Sui's words and looking at her gaze, Zhao Yi thought for a while, and blurted out: "In the past, the righteous ministers always said that they didn't know what kind of princess I wanted to marry—"

Li Sui couldn't help being interested when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows to see: "How did you say that?"

Zhao Yi smiled, and then said: "I told them, I, Princess Yuling, should be fearless of heaven and earth, indomitable, and respected by everyone."

As soon as these words came out, Li Suining frowned and thought for a while, then looked at Zhao Yi and couldn't help saying: "Are you making fun of me?"

"The princess is too worried."

Even though Zhao Yi said so, he got up and was about to run. Seeing this, Li Sui immediately grabbed his hand and said, "You just scolded me in a different way—"

While talking and joking, Li Sui was in vain, and Zhao Yi rushed to help him, but he didn't want to be thrown down on the soft grass by her.

In an instant, amidst the fragrance of flowers and plants, the sound of the breathing of the two close to each other swept over each other's cheeks, making them feel numb.

In the silent wind, Li Sui just lay on Zhao Yi's chest, staring at him blankly, face to face, eye to eye, pressing Zhao Yi there firmly, feeling the warmth from his chest .

The flickering fireflies lingered between the two, making them both see the unexplainable changes in each other's eyes.

At that moment, Li Sui could feel her heart beating like a drum, her face was burning like a stove, and the palms of her lying on him were numb.

She, what happened to her——

For a moment, she actually had the urge to stick her mouth on it?

At this moment, Jin Zou let out a low cry, which shocked Li Sui, and then he heard Zhao Yi say: "Princess?"

"it's okay no problem."

Li Sui quickly got up, not daring to look over, and said: "It's a bit cold, let's go back."

While speaking, Li Sui wanted to leave without looking back, but heard Zhao Yi calling her again: "Princess?"

When she looked back again, she saw Zhao Yi behind her pointing in the opposite direction and saying, "This way."

"Oh, I can't tell the direction at night."

Seeing that Li Sui turned and left hastily, Zhao Yi couldn't help chuckling when he looked at the rare flustered figure, and hurriedly followed him and said intentionally: "There are wild wolves in the night, the princess walks slowly."

(End of this chapter)