At the end of last year, Chu Zhao could walk around the entire village three times every night.

In the first month of this year, Chu Zhao was able to ride on his horse and trot around outside the village.

In the beginning of spring, Chu Zhao's archery skills became the leader of the young men outside the village in the school grounds where children practiced kung fu.

Now she is no longer satisfied with the competition with a group of children in the school grounds, and she starts riding her horse to show off her skills.

Zhong Changrong watched the girl wearing a cloth clothes and a scarf, riding a red horse, carrying a bow and carrying an arrow.

Although she had a scarf, the spring wind still blew her face red.

"Be careful." Zhong Changrong couldn't help but say, signaling her to dismount soon.

Chu Zhao jumped off the horse's back quickly, which shocked Zhong Changrong again.

"Is it really okay?" he said, complaining again, "Kapoong doesn't care about you, thanks to you calling her mother."

Chu Zhao smiled and said, "I'm really fine." He said this and winked at Zhong Changrong, "I haven't had a mother for decades. My father and Uncle Zhong, don't you take good care of me, too."

Zhong Changrong hummed twice with satisfaction, looked at the bow and arrow in her hand, and asked, "Have you recovered your strength?"

Chu Zhao said: "It's still almost."

Zhong Changrong said, "I can see that, otherwise I will eat roasted whole lamb tonight." After that, he looked at the flock again, called twenty-seven, and a little lamb really came over.

He said with a little distress: "The legs are a little lame."

Chu Zhao was angry and funny: "Then you are not very good at this twenty-seven. You become lame when you are scared. How can you charge into battle?"

"You don't understand." Zhong Changrong stared at her, "The flock of sheep charges is different from people. We are sentries in twenty-seven. With the order, the lead is very powerful. With him, I don't need to command. The flock can let itself go."

Chu Zhao smiled so hard that he covered his stomach.

Zhong Changrong also made a special demonstration for her.

Chu Zhao saw Zhong Changrong taming the sheep, and then rode his horse with the flock of sheep for half a day, then was urged by Zhong Changrong to go back.

"You must take good care of your health." He repeatedly reminded, "Don't hurry to ride horses and shoot archery. Now we are in an unattended place. Life is free and happy is more important than anything else."

Chu Zhao repeatedly responded and told Zhong Changrong not to drink too much, so he urged his horse to return to the village.

Since she was in good health, Xiaoman didn't live with her, and she didn't cook. She returned to her residence and asked Xiaohongma to find food and drink, and walked straight into Deng Yi's yard.

"Acai." she shouted.

The servant immediately poked his head out of the kitchen: "Afu is back, the meal will be ready soon."

"What meal today?" Chu Zhao asked expectantly.

"Roast chicken!" The servant was browsing, "and bought dried lotus leaves from the market."

Chu Zhao repeatedly claimed good.

The servant signaled her: "Go in and wait."

Chu Zhao walked into the room and Deng Yi's hall was much brighter than hers. A blind old woman was sitting by the window fumbled to make socks.

"Afu is here." She smiled with a slight ear.

Chu Zhao sat next to her and praised: "Grandma, the socks you made are so beautiful."

"It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not. A Er and his brother are both big feet and can't wear socks." Deng's mother said, and what came to mind when she said this, shouting, "A Er, A Er."

This time, the servant didn't have to reply in the kitchen, and Chu Zhao said, "A Er is still in class."

Deng's mother said, as if she was thinking about it, and then continued to talk: "A Er worked hard in studying and ate a lot. A Da gave him his meal every time and lied to him that he had eaten at home." He shouted again, "A Er, remember to build a tomb for your father and brother."

Chu Zhao didn't care about Deng's mother's chaotic words, and nodded: "Remember, he said it."

Then, as Deng’s mother repeated these two sentences, the servant brought the food, and soon Deng Yi came in.

"Shu Xiu, who is alone, cannot eat meat every day." Deng Yi frowned.

The servant was very unhappy: "I only ate meat once three days ago, and this chicken was not bought, it was sent by the little grasshopper. The grasshopper will write his name. He thanked you specifically."

Deng Yi glanced at him: "You will receive any gifts you give."

"This is not called etiquette." The servant corrected, "This is called favor."

Their master and servant arguing, and Deng Yi saw Chu Zhao tear off a chicken leg from the corner of his eyes—

"Afu," he said, "your mother is in the village and is in charge of the family. She doesn't lack meat."

Chu Zhao smiled and took a big bite of the chicken leg and said, "I'm old, how can I turn around my mother?" As he said that, he reached out and tear off the other chicken leg, tear it open it into the bowl, and then held Deng's mother's hand and picked it up, "Grandma, chicken leg, eat it."

Deng's mother said yes, holding the bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other to eat.

Chu Zhao picked up his bowl: "I've eaten it, I'll leave." Although he said this, he added a spoonful of lotus leaf rice to the bowl. When he walked over the hall, he took another inkstone.

"Borrow it."

These actions were completed in an instant. By the time you threw this sentence, the person had disappeared indoors.

Deng Yi frowned and looked outside the door, shook his head.

"A Er, your father and brother--"

"I remember going to repair it right away."

As he stepped into his own door, Deng Yi's family's nagging was isolated. Chu Zhao walked into the study, slowly finished the rice and meat, then took out the inkstone and began to grind the ink.

A large piece of paper spreads on the table.

Chu Zhao was on inspection and often picked up the pen to draw. She was so focused that she didn't realize it until Deng Yi spoke.

"What are you doing?"

Chu Zhao looked up and saw Deng Yi standing in the hall, and said, "It's nothing, just draw."

Drawing is painting, why add it? Do you don’t know what you are doing?

Deng Yi simply walked in and saw the drawings on the table. The mountains and rivers on the drawings were magnificent, and lines were passing through them like arrows, causing waves.

"Empress is drawing a marching battle picture," he said.

There is only Miss Afu in Aoki Village, but there is no Maiden.

I don’t know if the title Deng Yi was intentional or blurted out unintentionally.

Chu Zhao didn't care, and did not admit it or deny it. Instead, he asked him: "How is it? Is the painting very energetic?"

Deng Yi said: "So what about the spirit?"

"It's not possible to draw in spirit." Chu Zhao said, looking at the drawings, then looking up and smiling, "When I get in spirit, it's not just a picture."

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"What did you say you want to do?"

Zhong Changrong and Kapok Hong were both called, looking at the pictures on the table, and then listening to Chu Zhao's words, they looked a little surprised.

Chu Zhao said: "I want to punish evil and eliminate evil, and to clear the king's side. I want to declare the world that the queen of Chu is not guilty."

Zhong Changrong and Kapok Hong looked at her with a shocked expression, but more complicated.

"Azhao, this matter is too hateful." Zhong Changrong said, looking terrified, "He Xie family and that little emperor are indeed too bullying. It is right that you can't swallow this."

Chu Zhao said: "It's not that I can't swallow this, nor is it about fairness or not. I have never asked Xie and Your Majesty to treat our Chu differently. This matter is very simple, it's just a game, but at that time I did lose and lose."

She smiled again when she said this.

"But I'm not discouraged, and I'm not dead, so I'm going to do it again."

Xiaoman, who was standing behind Kapokhong, couldn't help but say, "Don't you want to be the queen? Xie Yanfang was crazy at that time. Isn't it because of this that you can't be the one now? Isn't this what you want now? Why do you want to kill him again?"

If I had known today, why should I be the first one?

Although Zhong Changrong didn't like Xiaoman's attitude, he did not scold her this time, and hesitated: "Uncle Zhong is not afraid of war. Uncle Zhong, who knows, isn't afraid of anything, but Azhao, are you worried that the court will threaten us? This is really not necessary. Ajiu - Well, as long as this kid Ajiu wants to do it, we can do things well. With him, we can feel at ease."

Chu Zhao looked at Xiaoman and said, "I had a fight with Xie Yanfang at that time because I was the queen, but not. I went back today to be the queen, not the same."

Xiaoman had a headache when he heard it.

Chu Zhao looked at Zhong Changrong again: "I know it was Ajiu sitting in the imperial city and restraining the endless pursuit for us. Of course, I also believe that Ajiu can protect us, but in this life, I still want to protect myself."

Zhong Changrong thought, what will happen in this life and that life? He also had a slight headache.

"I want to be the queen, but I can be the one who can support me, not the one who can give me. If I don't become the queen, I will set up the world and set up my retreat, not others will place me." Chu Zhao continued, "I don't want others to do it for me, or I don't believe that others can do it for me. In this life, I must do what I want myself."

"Originally, I, Chu Zhao, died here and it was gone."

"But this time I was lucky enough to meet Ajiu, Xiaoman, Mother, Uncle Zhong, you are here too. I am not dead, I am alive, and I still have the ability."

"Then I, Chu Zhao, can't stop here, this matter cannot end here, otherwise I will live in vain."

Xiaoman reached out and rubbed his brows, curled his lips, and turned his head to stop talking.

Zhong Changrong was stunned for a moment, smiled, and nodded: "Yes, I can't live this in vain. I can't forget this matter!"

Chu Zhao looked at Kapokhong again. From beginning to end, she didn't say anything, just smiled beside her.

"Mom." She asked, "Do you have anything to say?"
To be continued...