Snow, like catkins, is dancing in the air and flying with the wind.
Xiao Yifeng's eagle eyes were half-squinted, standing on the tower looking at the increasingly clear black shadows in the snow, the corners of his lips raised, and his clenched fists gradually loosened.
When I saw her dressed in men's clothing, a tingling sensation flashed through my mind - something familiar.
Locking that figure tightly, some trance-like images flashed in his mind. He suddenly said: "What were we like in the past?"
Snowflakes were floating in the air, and small white feathers were scattered like blown pear petals.
I sat on the horse, numbly stretched out my hand to catch it, and quickly melted away - turned around and looked at the vast white field behind me, remembering the first time I met Xiao Yichen and Xiao Yifeng.
It's also such a cold day, and it's also such a vast expanse of white.
Xiao Yifeng looked at me lying on the snow and said coldly, "Go around."
But Xiao Yichen reached out to me... Yichen, was it destined that I would be entangled with you from that moment on?
If it hadn't been for Luo Yiran's incident, I might have been with Xiao Yifeng, smiling in relief. Perhaps, this was my destiny.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath - don't let me wait until my hair turns gray before you marry me.
"Guard Shui, this general is sending Miss Bai back. You should go to the palace to see the queen first!"
I opened my eyes and looked at Chengyang who suddenly spoke up, feeling a little hesitant. He was loyal to Xiao Yifeng, but he might not necessarily be sincere to me, a person I didn't know very well.
Shui Lianyou also looked at me hesitantly.
"Don't bother General Cheng, I'll go back to Prince Xian's Mansion myself." Seeing Shui Lian's worry, I said coldly.
"This..." Chengyang looked at me a little embarrassed.
"Is it possible that General Cheng is still worried after entering this city gate? Then just ask someone to tie me up..."
At this time, a fast horse came from a distance, and several of us looked in that direction at the same time. Within a moment, the horse had stopped in front of us.
"Princess, there is an imperial edict in the palace. Please return to the palace to receive the edict." It turned out to be a guard in the palace.
I was a little surprised. Didn't the emperor give me an edict not to let me leave the city? Why did he come to deliver the edict now? He looked at Chengyang with doubtful eyes. His eyes dodge hesitantly and he lowered his head.
Xiao Yifeng stood stiff in the darkness of the city tower. If she entered the palace, she would definitely cross the border as soon as she asked her father, and she would definitely chase Yichen. A low voice floated from her lips: "Go down,
Just say that the prince wants to meet the general." The attendant next to him left in response.
I hurried all the way back home, and my doubts were getting bigger and bigger. Gang Chengyang insisted on sending me back, but someone behind him said something to him, and he graciously let us go. Shui Lianyou saw
A guard accompanied me back to the house, so he entered the palace.
As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw the housekeeper waiting there anxiously, "Fortunately, I had time. Just after the princess left, the imperial edict from the palace came."
"Where is he?" I dismounted and asked directly.
"This will be waiting in the front hall."
"Did the imperial decree pass it to me by name?" I asked the steward behind me as I walked towards the front hall.
"The old slave was a little confused before. I asked the father-in-law who passed the order, and he said it was passed to Miss Bai." I was slightly stunned, wondering what the emperor meant?
As soon as I walked through the door, the high-pitched voice rang out, "It's time to wait." He was a little confused when he saw me dressed in men's clothing.
The housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The princess has just returned from the palace and she finds it inconvenient to dress as a woman."
When the eunuch heard this, he laughed and said: "Let's congratulate the girl first." The housekeeper looked blank, thinking that it was a bit rude. After all, I haven't officially canonized her yet.
My eyes lit up. Could it be that he was here to deliver a marriage decree? But didn’t Yichen say that he would only grant a marriage after he returned in triumph?
Suddenly I heard the eunuch shouting loudly: "Bai Xuelin from the Medical Fort of Wu Kingdom listens to the order."
My eyes flashed slightly as I watched the eunuch staring at me. Did he mean to tell me to kneel down? The housekeeper and the servant next to him had already knelt down and raised their heads to look at me in confusion.
"Just read it quickly, I still have something to do." I see that your emperor doesn't kneel down, but you asked me to kneel down. It's not because of Yichen's status. What kind of emperor or prince does this have to do with me?
The eunuch's face stiffened, then he suddenly smiled and said: "Look at our memory, the emperor has given permission for girls not to kneel down. Just stand and receive it!"
I twitched my eyebrows and looked at him intently. How many heads do you have? You forgot what the emperor ordered when you got here? I'm afraid it was intentional!
"In accordance with the destiny, the emperor issued an edict saying that Bai Xuelin, the daughter of the master of the Medical Fort of the Wu Kingdom, has both political integrity and talent, is gentle and virtuous, and is specially named Princess Anlin. After receiving this order, she quickly came to the palace to see her, and expressed her gratitude to her.
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"Have you finished reading?" I looked at the eunuch and asked. Why is it that the imperial edict made me the princess instead of granting me a marriage?
The eunuch handed over the bright yellow scroll and said with a meaningful smile: "Princess, take a look for yourself. After reading it, you can follow our family to the palace to repeat the order! Don't keep the emperor waiting."
I was stunned, how did he know what I wanted to ask?
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping.
Sitting in the sedan, raising the curtain, I was thinking, in such bad weather, would Yichen and the others have a smooth journey?
Listening to the "creak" sound of the bearer stepping on the snow, it was very messy. I flicked it casually, and the rings on my dress made a crisp sound. I looked down at this gorgeous outfit and felt that it was cumbersome. It was a bit funny.
The housekeeper had so carefully asked the maid to dress me up before. This was not the first time I went to see the emperor.
Suddenly I heard a voice coming from outside the sedan: "Princess, we are here." From the opened curtain of the sedan, what I saw was still a silvery white.
Those delicate flowers are already covered with snow, and the willow trees with all their fallen leaves are covered with fluffy and shiny silver bars.
Suddenly I remembered the palace in Lichen Pavilion, and wondered what it looked like right now?
The eunuch holding the umbrella for me saw that I was dazed and was about to speak out. I said lightly: "Let's go!"
Approaching the slightly opened door, a coughing sound could be heard from inside.
A little sighing, if a person knows that what others are giving him is poison and continues to take it, maybe he is hopeless, maybe he is tired... How many people can really see through it? How many people can let go after seeing through it?
?
"Your Majesty, Princess Anlin has arrived."
"Ahem, Xuan." The fragile and feeble voice came out, making people's hearts tighten.
The vermilion door creaked, and I walked in as calmly as before.
"Do you know why I sent you to the palace? Ahem." The emperor looked at me with dark eyes.
I smiled, but my eyes were sharp, "The emperor is joking, Xuelin is just an ordinary person, how can she know when it will rain and when it will clear up."
The emperor's face darkened, his eyes became sharp, and he looked at me, "Do you want to know why I let Yichen go on an expedition?"
My heart suffocated. Isn't it really just a simple war? I turned my eyes slightly and nodded.
"This time, cough...this war meeting is all thanks to the Queen...cough, cough." The emperor's face turned stern, and his anger made him cough violently, "I have tolerated her nonsense for so many years, and even back then...
She killed Li'er, and I let her go...but now she actually colludes with outsiders to usurp the throne? I can't let her kill Feng'er again, absolutely not." The emperor slammed the table and stood up. I was stunned.
on the spot.
It took him a while to come back to his senses, "So you want Yichen to go on an expedition in exchange for her life?"
The emperor walked up to me and said through gritted teeth: "If Chen'er can defeat me this time, I will spare her life. Otherwise, ten times of her death will not be enough... She actually colluded with the Shui Kingdom and told them to attack our country.
The day when the imperial court sends troops is the time when the uprising occurs. After the uprising is completed, ten cities will be ceded to the Shui Kingdom..."
I was dumbfounded, why is this queen so confused? But she was very careful. If the imperial court really sent troops, the number of troops mobilized by the emperor would be greatly reduced, and the chance of winning the uprising would be greater.
Suddenly I raised my head and looked at the emperor, "You asked Yichen to go on an expedition, and you only allowed victory but not defeat. Are you asking him to die?" I stepped back in a daze, "Emperors have been ruthless since ancient times. It's true, haha.
!Even if he is not your biological child...you don't have to be so cruel and want him to die in the trap set by his mother..."
The emperor closed his eyes and turned around, "I don't want to either. I gave them countless opportunities, but they..."
I yelled and interrupted him, "You don't want to? You don't want to at all, you are selfish. You are not ruthless when you should be ruthless, and you pretend to be ruthless when you shouldn't be ruthless. You are simply stupid..." I was so angry that I couldn't help but interrupt him.
Choose your words.
The emperor looked at me with sinister eyes, "With just a few words you just said, I can kill you and even the entire Medical Fort."
I sneered, "What else do you want besides this? Back then, you couldn't even keep the woman you loved, and you owed your friends a favor, so you tolerated others, to the point where you are now out of control, and now you are attacking someone who is like a father to you.
Others, if I were the emperor and could do what you do, I would simply die..."
"Shut up..." the emperor shouted angrily, "I was soft-hearted back then, but I was also..."
"That's enough, using others to achieve your own goals is despicable. Don't make excuses for yourself, it will appear even more hypocritical..." I turned and left.
"No one has ever dared to be so presumptuous in front of me. You are the first."
I turned around and smiled, "Your identity is as transparent to me as air. If I hadn't thought of you, I would have called you Father..." Looking at the room, "I will never step into this place again..."
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The emperor sighed a little dejectedly, "Are you going to find Yichen?"
My body trembled, "So what? Everyone has abandoned him, but I won't..." He smiled sweetly, "He once said that if I disappear, he will still haunt me if I disappear from the blue spring to the underworld. Now, I am right
So is he."
"Half of the 100,000 soldiers he leads are from Tenglong Camp..."
"so what?"
The emperor slowly spit out: "No matter whether we win or lose, we will definitely kill him."
I was shocked, "You have no intention of letting him come back alive, do you?" The emperor remained silent.
A biting chill spread from the bottom of my heart. I looked at my feet and saw how warm this place was... My nose was sore and my eyes were filled with mist. "You ordered me not to leave the city gate, and you banned me from being a princess."
, what’s your idea? Let’s finish it once! I’m afraid I won’t have a chance to listen to your explanation again.”
The emperor was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood something in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "You are so smart, you wouldn't have thought of this."
I smiled a little sarcastically and said, "I'm very sorry to disappoint you." I left without hesitation.
I really don't get anything good every time I come to this place.
Queen, I really can't stop hating you. You want to kill me and I can't bear it, but you actually caused me to separate from Yichen. If I never see him again in this life, you are his biological mother and I won't let him go either.
you……
Are rights really that important? Now that your son's life is about to be ruined in your hands, do you have any regrets?
Xiao Yifeng walked out from behind the pillar, her expression colder than the snow outside, her fists clenched and clenching, her angry red eyes looking at the figure that was fading away - so, I have no reason to give up on you.