"Dulie, you have just injured three people, are you planning to attack a girl now?!"
Just when the saber was about to touch Ning Yue's body, a scolding suddenly came from Lu Yu on Mammoth's back, with a clear tremor in his tone, as if he didn't appreciate the impulsive performance of Warrior Shuodi.
Du Lie, who was sweating profusely, let go of the girl in front of him, reversed the blade of the knife, retreated to Mammoth's feet and knelt down on one knee:
"Princess! You see how cowardly these southerners are. When I think that the person the princess is marrying is one of these losers, I can't help but want to teach them a lesson. Please forgive me!"
The Shuodi girl in Lu Yu tried hard to suppress the unhappiness in her heart:
"But you clearly know that this time we went south for peace, not for provocation! As the saying goes, there are people outside the country, and you will definitely encounter opponents among the southerners who are difficult to match. In recent years, innocent people in Muyun's tribe have died. We already have enough clansmen, do you want to follow in their footsteps to the Immortal Heaven in this foreign country? This will not benefit anyone!"
"But I just can't swallow this breath! The southerners are all sanctimonious hypocrites. Although they call us barbarians and Di people now, when we finally get married, we will still be as impatient as snow leopards in heat. I want to carry you to bed!"
"Listen to what you are talking nonsense, why don't you shut up! It's getting late, we can't continue fighting today. I don't want to continue to live in the city after nightfall, so I quickly packed up and went to camp outside the city. Don't worry. Make trouble again!"
While talking, the princess named Tuya finally opened the curtain and walked out of the land, stood on the back of the mammoth and scolded her. She was wearing a gauze, and her appearance was still unclear at this time, but only a pair of Shuodi people's unique His dark eyes were as bright as the autumn moon, and he was astonished to the heavens.
"Princess! Before departure, Qin Nahehan specifically told you that you will not be allowed to sleep in a tent after entering the city -"
"Hypocritical! If he really cares about me, how could he send me to the distant country of Ye? Dulie, please don't cause trouble here, otherwise it will not only continue to embarrass me, but also the entire Muyun Our ancestors have been disgraced!"
Du Lie wanted to continue arguing, but the young princess did not want to waste any more words with him and sat back in the carriage. Then the huge mammoth lying on the ground slowly stood up. Under the guidance of the warriors, Shaking his body like a hill, he walked towards Taichun Gate in the south of the city.
Ning Yue didn't know where she got the courage. Seeing this situation, she walked straight to the mammoth, trying to block the other party's way:
"Wait a minute, you injured three people in a row, and you just want to walk away like this?"
"The mammoth is very powerful. Please be careful not to hurt yourself. As for the injured, I will send someone to deliver ten pure gold ingots to each of them as a token of sympathy and apology."
Princess Tuya among the soldiers did not poke her head out again, but only answered through the curtain.
The other party's arrogant attitude deeply angered Ning Yue. She suddenly realized that what made her extremely uneasy during this period was not only the increasingly strong homesickness in her heart, but also the inability to let go of the present - several cold and heat waves. , she has long regarded this city as her second hometown, and now she takes it for granted that the matter cannot be settled so easily, and naturally she cannot allow someone to arrogantly mess around in her beloved Mulu City. Leave.
"No, you can't go anywhere!"
The girl continued to block the opponent regardless, and was almost stepped on by the mammoth's raised forefoot. Seeing this, Princess Shuodi in the army had no choice but to order the warrior holding the elephant to stop temporarily and continue to negotiate with her:
"Then what does the girl want me to do with her? Du Lie has already explained beforehand that this competition is voluntary. Moreover, the three injured people themselves did not say anything, and I have promised to compensate..."
"No! We have to compete again tomorrow to determine the winner."
"So what if we compete again? You southerners are so timid that you only sent three people to fight in the whole afternoon, and all of them returned miserably. Even if dozens more people come tomorrow, the result will still be the same!"
Du Lie shouted arrogantly, and rushed up to push Ning Yue. Unexpectedly, the girl in front of him nimbly slipped out of the gap between his arms, and did not forget to turn around and give Ning Yue a hard tug on the top of his head. The strong warrior immediately stared up his eyes and wanted to explode, but was stopped again by the princess in Lu Yuzhong:
"Du Lie, please step aside. Since this red-haired girl dares to declare a challenge, she must have recommended a powerful character - so according to her wishes, let's have another contest outside the city tomorrow."
"But the princess——"
"If you leave Ye Country after only three games, you won't be able to explain to Qina when you go back to Yanluoyuan. If you are serious, you should recharge your batteries tonight so that you don't lose tomorrow."
Princess Tuya said and waved her hand to signal the other party to stop arguing.
Dulie also knew that talking was useless, so he led the other eleven Shuodi warriors to kneel down on one knee, put their right hand on his heart, and saluted Lu Yu:
"I will obey the princess' orders. I will make them convinced of their defeat tomorrow!"
Hearing that the other party's tone was still extremely arrogant, Ning Yue put her hands on her hips and asked, "Hey, who can't tell lies? But what if you are defeated tomorrow?"
"As long as I, Du Lie, still have breath, I will never be defeated!"
The warrior squinted his eyes and snorted heavily, then raised his head again and looked at Lu Yu, who was being carried on the elephant's back.
Ning Yue was suddenly stunned by the other party's decisive answer. She couldn't figure out why the Shuodi warrior in front of her seemed to be so resistant to the princess coming to Ye country for marriage. She was also full of inexplicable hostility towards the so-called southerners. But in a dazed moment, the Di people's team had set off again, driving the mammoth and the pack team to pass her, and walked away under the gaze of the onlookers. Far away...
At sunset, a strong aroma of food from various families floated in Mulu City. But Ning Yue, who had just returned to Jiayun Zhai not long ago, had no appetite at all. She just held a pair of chopsticks in her mouth, thinking about what to eat for a while. How to mention tomorrow's competition with two of your companions.
Not long after, Qi Ziyinfeng came from the palace dusty. As soon as he sat down, he picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth. Seeing the anxious look on his face, the girl couldn't help but burst into laughter. He came out, then used the chopsticks in his hand to pick up the meat that the boy in white had brought to his mouth, and threw it back on the plate:
"Look at how greedy you are. The food in the palace is not without oil and water. If you want to eat it, you have to wait until the little stutter is here before you eat it!"
"Ning Yue, you don't know that the food in Jia Yunzhai is much better than the dinner in the palace. I don't know when Jiang Yan will come. Are we just sitting in front of a table of dried vegetables? ?If I had known earlier, I would have come back later. Master, he also gave me a lot of homework."
When he first entered the Accord, Qi Ziyin noticed something strange in the girl's expression. Seeing that the girl was not allowed to move her mouth to eat, he asked rather strangely, "Speaking of which, Ning Yue, you are so anxious to send a message to me with Brother Parrot." Come here, Jiang Yan, do you have anything important to say?"
Ning Yue immediately shook her head in a panic: "No way. I just feel that the three of us haven't had dinner together for a long time. Ziyin, don't doubt others casually."
"Ning Yue, don't hide it from me. Your eyes have been flickering since just now, and you don't dare to look at me at all. Besides, as long as you have something on your mind, you will keep biting your lower lip. If you have something, just say it. Well, it’s so uncomfortable to hold it in your heart.”
The words of her companion made the girl feel itchy in her heart. She hesitated before asking in a roundabout way:
"Zi Yin, have you heard that there was a disturbance in the city today, and there are rumors that someone was injured?"
"Oh, you're talking about the Shuodi warriors coming to the city to compete, right? This matter has been spread throughout the palace for a long time. It is said that one of the injured is a member of the Red Ling Guard. For this reason, General Baili and Wang My uncle even went to meet my father specially, but I don’t know how the conversation went at this time.”
Hearing what Qi Ziyin said, the red-haired girl couldn't help but be surprised: "But I heard that those Shuodi people came uninvited, how could they attract such attention?"
"It is precisely because they came uninvited that they caught people even more off guard. Ning Yue, you may not know something. The Muyun tribe once unified the grassland more than a hundred years ago, and even once broke through the defense line of Yubei and crossed south. Pin Jinhe attacked the city of Yujing, forcing the then Ling Emperor to flee to Wei Liang in panic. Later generations called that dark history the Shuodi Rebellion."
"It turns out these people were so ferocious in the past. No wonder I heard many people call them barbarians!" The girl wrapped a strand of hair around her ear around her fingertips and played with it.
"Well, it wasn't until the internal fighting in the Muyun tribe sixty years ago that the imperial court relied on Guan Ningwu of Wei Liang to defeat the enemy at Suoyang Pass and regain a large territory in the north. Since then, Yubei has also been selling to the south bank of the Jin River. The defenses were strengthened, and a fortress was set up ten miles away, with cavalry patrolling day and night to prevent the Di people from going south again."
"What do you think of today's events, Ziyin?"
"The Di people in the north are not familiar with the etiquette of the Central Plains countries, or they simply don't care about the so-called rules we have set, so they come uninvited and cause trouble in the city. But arrogance is arrogance, and now Mu Yun We are no longer as dominant in the Shuobei grassland as we were back then, and this time the other party takes the initiative to come to make peace, probably because they want to use the power of Ye State to do something."
Qi Ziyin said, but he heard some clues from his companion's words, and asked strangely:
"Ning Yue on the other hand - why are you suddenly so interested in the affairs of the Shuodi people? Could it be that you secretly went to the market in the afternoon to join in the fun?"
"Oh, I just happened to meet you, so I stood there and watched for a while. Why are you so nervous?"
Seeing that the girl was hesitating when asked, the young man immediately put on a serious face: "Those Shuodi people said it was just for show, but after all, the sword has no eyes, and you are a girl. What if you get hurt?" I regret it so much. I will never see this kind of thing again in the future, you know?"
Seeing the nervousness on the other party's face, Ning Yue was very moved, but she also understood that it might be difficult for her to have a chance to speak out about the requirements for the competition that she had planned in her heart. Even if she could bring it up in person, it would be impossible for her companions to agree to follow her and continue to mess around. .
Thinking of this, she suddenly became a little unhappy, put down the chopsticks in her hands, and stared at the market in the distance outside the window. She happened to be late and hurried into the Yage. He seemed to be full of thoughts and saw the small case. The two people beside them were silent and then asked:
"Why do you two look so ugly? Do you know the news already?"
Qi Ziyin had no choice but to ask his companions to sit down awkwardly: "Ning Yue ran to watch Di Ren fight in the afternoon. I just said a few words to her and became a little unhappy. But when you came in, you said that we already knew the news. I wonder if you also Is it related to this matter?"
Qi Ziyin hit the mark, and the black-eyed boy immediately nodded:
"When I came out just now, I heard from my colleagues who were on duty tonight that the king seemed to be interested in marrying the Muyun tribe, so he decided to select an unmarried child with strong martial arts skills from among the princes. If the other party fights again, no matter whether he wins or loses, this person will marry the Princess of Nadi, so——"
"So, they chose me, right..." Before he could finish his words, the boy in white had already guessed the result and lowered his head in frustration.
"Originally, the king of the country and General Baili planned to send Yu Li to destroy the other party's prestige. But Jinghaihou advised that this matter must be done by the Wang family himself, so that he can fight for our country. In order to save some face, the barbarians will not be regarded as cowards who are afraid of getting into trouble. Secondly, it is to clearly inform the other party that the person sent is the future marriage partner, so that they will not be as painful as today. Killer, goodbye bloody light."
Jiang Yan didn't know how to persuade the other party for a moment, so he had to tell the whole story truthfully, "I don't know when your uncle Wang and the king saw you and me competing in Guihong Garden, and they actually said that I won three years ago. Yuli, if you can defeat me, you are the best choice among the seven princes."
"So the king agreed like this? Why? Why! Isn't Ziyin his favorite son? Could he have the heart to let Ziyin marry that barbaric Shuodi princess?!"
Before Qi Ziyin could answer, the red-haired girl who had been silent suddenly jumped up - a few hours ago, she was still thinking about how to entrust one of the two companions to go with those Shuo. Warrior Di decided to fight, but now that she knew that the one who kept the appointment was going to marry Princess Na Tuya, she was totally unwilling.
The black-eyed boy didn't answer any more, and didn't know how to answer. He just looked at the depressed Qi Ziyin in front of him, feeling a little sympathetic and helpless. After all, if the same thing happened to him, he would rather die. Promised.
After a long silence, Qi Ziyin sighed quietly:
"However, it seems that the father can only choose me as a concubine. He has seven sons, Zixiu's brother is the heir, and he must not take risks. Ziqi and Zixian's two brothers are not concubines, and they have already been After the wedding, only me and the other three brothers were left who had just come of age. Among them, Ziyou's brother's martial arts was really not superb. If he really went there, it might be a problem to even protect himself. The remaining two were completely incompetent. Martial arts..."
Hearing that her companion actually accepted this arrangement imposed on her, Ning Yue immediately reprimanded:
"Idiot, are you willing to be used as a pawn? Ziyin, do you know what it will mean for your future once you agree? No, let's go to Uncle Baili together, or go directly to ask for an audience with your father. You said that the Muyun Department is now in a state of insecurity, so marrying them is simply pushing you into a pit of fire!"
"How could I not be clear about it? But the order has been issued. Even if I go to my father now, it will not help..."
The young man in white clothes in front of him just kept shaking his head, pretending to be resigned to his fate.
"Oh, what's going on with you three? If you have any unhappy things, just eat your food first before talking about it. This girl Xiaoyue has worked hard to prepare a large table of dishes, but why hasn't she even touched a bite?"
Out of anger, Ning Yue opened her mouth and wanted to persuade her again, but suddenly she heard someone speaking behind her. It turned out that it was Leng Jiayun who came upstairs after hearing the previous dispute.
Seeing the three people sitting in the elegant pavilion looking at each other in silence, the woman thought they were having an argument again and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her. However, Qi Ziyin had a long face, and before Sister Jia could ask any more questions, she stood up and bowed straight towards the building. Run down.
Looking at the other person's retreating figure, Ning Yue turned to look at Jiang Yan who was also at a loss, and then followed the boy in white and rushed downstairs.
Leng Jiayun wanted to ask what happened, but before she could say anything, she saw Jiang Yan slamming the chopsticks in his hand onto the small case and chasing after him without saying a word. The woman was left alone, facing a table full of dishes, with a blank look on her face.
Leng Jiayun couldn't help but let out a long sigh. After waiting for a long time and seeing no one coming back, she started to pack things up. She also murmured: "The children have grown up after all, and they don't want to talk to me about anything on their mind." …”
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