sinovels Chapter 90 Untitled-1
Chapter 90 Untitled-1
Tang Xiaoshi choked with a damp and moldy smell, and covered her breath with a fragrant handkerchief.
The long, narrow and dark passageway can't be seen at a glance, and the light coming in from the narrow skylight above is limited. It took Tang Xiaoshi's eyes to adapt to the light, and his breath also slightly accepted the pungent smell.
"Princess, be careful where you step." The official leading the way reminded carefully.
The female Shi beside her helped her down a few stone steps, and the cold air came up from the damp floor tiles. Even though it was just autumn, it was already chilly.
She looked around from one cell to another, some were empty, some were locked up, the light was too dim to see the faces of the people inside, but she could roughly guess who they were.
Here in Nanliang Dali Temple Prison, how can the detainees be ordinary people.
Walking to the end of the long corridor, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple who led the way stopped, ordered the jailer to open the door, turned around and said respectfully to her: "Princess, please make a long story short, the minister is waiting outside."
She hummed, and the Shaoqing of Dali Temple turned around and retreated with the prison guards.
The man in the prison was dressed in prison clothes. He was sitting cross-legged on the wooden table with his back to the prison door. He turned around when he heard the sound, his face was unkempt, his eyes were dark blue, and his eyes were blurred.
Seeing her, the man was shocked, stunned for a few moments before recovering, hurriedly got down from the table, bowed his head in shame, bowed his hands without saying a word.
Tang Xiaoshi ordered the female secretary and the palace attendants to leave, and sat down on the square stool beside the low table.
"General Zhao, sit down!"
"As a sinner, I dare not."
She paused, and said with a sneer, "Then I'll stand with you!" Li Suo stood up.
"Princess..." Zhao Lin looked at her in astonishment, caught her gaze, and immediately dropped it.
"General Zhao, do you know why I came here to see you?" Tang Xiaoshi said calmly, sizing him up.In the past, he loved cleanliness the most, but now he is covered in filth.
Zhao Lin thought about it for a while, then shook his head slightly: "The princess made it clear."
"I just came here to ask General Zhao a word in person." She paused in the middle of her sentence.
Zhao Lin looked up at her, the light coming in from the skylight was spreading on her face, her face was fair, her features were exquisite, and the shallow dimples at the corners of her mouth carried a three-pointed smile, which added to the harmless appearance of humans and animals. Innocence is like the warmest ray of sunshine in spring.
When he saw the person in front of him for the first time in Lihu that year, she looked like this, her smile bloomed like a flower, dimming the entire lake and mountains.
"The princess just asks, but the minister knows everything."
"Okay." She took two steps towards Zhao Lin and walked up to him.
Zhao Lin subconsciously took half a step back, his expression tense, and he dared not meet her gaze with downcast eyes.
Tang Xiaoshi paused for a while, then asked loudly: "If General Zhao can go out from here and return to the barracks, will General Zhao be defeated by the Beiyong Army again, or is he confident that he will wipe out the Beiyong Army's previous humiliation?"
Zhao Lin froze for a moment and looked at her in astonishment.
leave here?Return to the barracks?This is simply a fool's dream.
In the battle with Beiyong, the Daliang Army was defeated, and tens of thousands of soldiers were buried in Heyangyuan. As the commander in chief, he has a duty to do so. It is a shame that he did not die for the country. Here, it doesn't matter whether it is returning to the barracks and leading the army again.
And the person in front of him asked this seriously, not joking with him, nor comforting him.
"What does the princess mean by this?"
"You just need to answer me, win or lose again."
Zhao Lin bowed his head in silence, his mind was full of the defeat of the war with Beiyong this time, and this was what he had been thinking about since he returned from the border.Why did you lose?Where is the defeat?
He has been familiar with the art of war since he was a child. He followed his father into and out of the military camp at the age of ten, and led the army at the age of 16. He believes that he is no less inferior to his father and grandfather in terms of daily training of sergeants and formation of troops.Although there were minor mistakes in the past ten years, there was never a major defeat. This time it was completely beyond his expectations and caught him off guard.
After thinking for a long time, he clasped his hands and replied, "I will avenge my past humiliation, and then raise the national prestige of Liang Liang."
Tang Xiaoshi nodded with a smile: "Okay." Staring at him for a while, he told him again, "General Zhao, remember what you said today." After speaking, he turned and went out.
"Princess..." Zhao Lin chased after two steps, Tang Xiaoshi did not turn his head, the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat, his expression dimmed, and he stood in front of the prison door and looked at the people who were going away.
After stepping out of Dali Prison, Tang Xiaoshi looked up at the sky. In the evening of early autumn, the sun was already tinged with coolness.
When she stepped into the carriage, she looked back at Dali Temple again.His eyes gradually moved to the distant sky in the north.
Soon, she will leave Kyoto to go under another strange sky.
For the original owner, Xiao Dai, this might be too cruel, but for her, it's just that there are no acquaintances. Emotionally, she doesn't feel any difference.
After seeing off Princess Xinghe, Shaoqing of Dali Temple turned around and stepped into the prison again.
Zhao Lin knelt on the ground, his brows were furrowed, as if he was puzzled by some problem.Seeing Shaoqing, he asked: "What happened in the court?" It was unprecedented for Princess Xinghe to visit him, and asking that question made him even more puzzled and uneasy.
Shaoqing's face was obscured in the shadows, his voice was cold and gloomy, and he said: "Beiyong's army oppressed the country and forced me to cede land in Daliang to pay compensation. In addition, I will marry Princess Xinghe by name, otherwise we will not stop fighting."
"Your Majesty agreed?" He asked excitedly, and only after he finished asking did he realize what a stupid question he had asked.
Some ministers in the DPRK wanted to seek peace wholeheartedly and wished to stop the war. Now that the Beiyong army proposed to cede land and pay compensation, how could His Majesty and the courtiers refuse to agree.
As for Princess Xinghe, she was not favored by His Majesty in the first place, and if she could be used to exchange for peace between the two countries, even if it was a few years of peace, His Majesty would not wish for it.
Shaoqing let out a long sigh, as if answering his question, as if trying to persuade him. "Your Majesty agreed, but Princess Xinghe didn't agree. Later, the Princess forced Your Majesty to die, and she was willing to go to marry him in exchange for the general seeing him again."
Zhao Lin smiled wryly for a few times, then burst out laughing. Tears flowed down his face as he laughed.
"General Zhao, don't let the princess down." Shaoqing paused and turned to leave after speaking.
Zhao Lin covered his face with his hands, and couldn't restrain himself from crying bitterly.
He originally wanted to ask His Majesty to marry him and Princess Xinghe after defeating Beiyong's army, but now he pushed Princess Xinghe to Beiyong with his own hands.
He had never hated himself so much for his incompetence.He wanted the life of his handsome son, General Daliang, to be exchanged by his beloved for the happiness of his life.
She hated beating her chest.
Tang Xiaoshi returned to the palace, and the queen came over.
Whether it is in Xiao Dai's memory or in the past few days she has traveled, this is the first time the queen has stepped into her palace.
She greeted her with courtesy, and the empress kindly took her hand and sat down in front of the case, and talked to her about the marriage, and prepared her anything according to the highest standard of a first-born princess.
She thanked each one.
The queen comforted her again: "I heard that King Beiyongde was twenty-seven years old and handsome. He was the most favored and talented prince among the princes. Prince Beiyong died young, and he is most likely to enter the East Palace. You marry him, In the future, you will be the Crown Princess of Beiyong, the future Queen of Beiyong, the mother of a country, and you will not be wronged."
She smiled politely, and the defeated country went to make peace with the princess where there is no good life.In Beiyong's view, she is just one of the tributes paid by Daliang, and what awaits her will be endless humiliation, which is more tormenting than death for Xiao Dai, who was born as a princess.
The commander-in-chief of Beiyong in the first battle of Heyangyuan was King De. Although tens of thousands of soldiers in Nanliang died in the battle, Beiyong also suffered heavy casualties.In the past, when Beiyong fought against Nanliang, King De lost to Zhao Lin several times. His hatred for Nanliang was not insignificant.
Marrying King Beiyongde is tantamount to entering hell.
"Mother, as long as General Zhao Lin is safe, the children will obey the arrangements of the father and mother, and even do more for me when we arrive in Beiyong."
The Queen smiled and nodded, clapping her hands: "Okay!"
After seeing off the queen, she stood in front of the palace and looked towards the north.
Hannu Shi stood aside, staring at her for a long time, until night fell, took the cloak from the hand of the palace maid, stepped forward to put it on her, and softly persuaded: "The wind is cold, the princess should rest in the palace!"
She looked back at Han Nushi, and smiled faintly: "I heard from General Zhao that Li Qu, King of Beiyongde, is a cold-faced, ruthless, cruel person, are you afraid?"
Han Nushi smiled and shook her head: "Princess is not afraid, what are servants afraid of?"
"How do you know I'm not afraid?" She turned and walked towards the hall.
Han Nushi supported her, and said: "Princess has people and things to protect in her heart. If you have this belief, you won't be afraid."
She smiled but was speechless, that was Xiao Dai, she could protect Zhao Lin with her life, but to Tang Xiaoshi, Zhao Lin was just a memory and had no feelings.She was just forced to take this step now.
Now that she is in Xiao Dai's body, and since King Beiyongde wants to marry her by name, even if it's not for Zhao Lin or Nanliang, she will marry far away.If she didn't marry, she would have to die, and Zhao Lin would die too.
Compared with death, she naturally wanted to live.
She was actually afraid.
How could she not be afraid of an enemy prince and general who had never met before and who was known for being cold-blooded and ruthless?
A few days later, Emperor Liang issued an imperial decree, and Zhao Lin overcame his meritorious deeds. He was demoted to General Pingbei, deprived of his title, and immediately went to the camp in the north to perform his crimes and meritorious service.
Ten days later, Tang Xiaoshi bid farewell to Emperor Liang and stepped on the carriage to Beiyong.
After leaving the capital, she stopped the carriage, got out of the carriage and bowed to the capital.
This farewell will be a forever farewell, and she took another look at the capital that raised her for 18 years for Xiao Dai.
The autumn wind is bleak, and there is a chill outside the car window.The sound of rattling cars was even more heavy.
"Where are you now?" she asked the escort escorting out of the car.
"Back to the princess, we have arrived in Huaizhou."
Daliang's northern camp is in Huaizhou, and Zhao Lin should already be in the barracks at this time, she thought.Wei Wei poked her head forward and looked forward, only the backs of Beiyong's guards could be seen, and she couldn't see anything.
"Tomorrow we will leave Daliang and enter Beiyong territory." The guard added.
She hummed lightly.
On that day, a team of people checked into the Huaizhou station.
Tang Xiaoshi had a bumpy day, and fell asleep early after seeing the escorting officials.In the middle of the night, she woke up suddenly and sat up suddenly from the couch.The maidservant who was on guard at night leaned forward in panic and raised the curtain and asked, "Is the princess awake?"
She looked at the maidservant in front of her, then quickly glanced at everything around her, took a few breaths and slowly calmed down, her mind was full of the scene from her dream just now.
She had just dreamed that she had hit someone with her car. She got out of the car to look.His head was covered with blood, his eyes stared straight at her, he called her name, and stretched out his hand slightly towards her.
Since wearing the book, she only dreamed of her parents occasionally, never dreamed of her first love boyfriend, even in the real world, she hadn't dreamed of him for a long time.But now it was a dream, it was still such a nightmare.
A palace maid brought a cup of tea over: "Princess, I am shocked."
She took it and found that her hands were shaking uncontrollably.
After drinking a cup of tea in one breath, she felt a little better.Looking up at the maid in front of her again, she said slowly: "It's okay, it's okay."
Lying back on the couch again, she couldn't fall asleep again.All I could think of was the ex-boyfriend's bloody face and the painful and terrified eyes.