This queen is not too curly

Chapter 24 Roast Bird
The cold is like a long curse.

Yan Yuan didn't know where her body was going to fall, but the cold air kept getting into the cracks in the bones of her whole body.She wanted to struggle, but she couldn't move. In the end, she was exhausted and could only let her soul sink into a deeper and darker place.

In a daze, the cold wind howled.

The dream came again.

In the dream, Yan Yuan opened her eyes and finally found the source of the cold: it turned out that the bonfire was extinguished last night.

She found the young man required by the military order yesterday, and led him out of the cave. It didn't take long before she found the trace of the assassin.She could only take him to hide in the depths of the snowy field overnight, and after walking like this for most of the night, she finally found a shelter from the wind.

There wasn't much dry firewood, and the campfire wasn't strong enough.

She put the boy in the place closest to the bonfire, while she slept far away, and it was like that until dawn.

Fortunately, she has a strong body and is not very afraid of the cold.

"...Are you awake?"

Yan Yuan stretched her waist, walked up to the boy, and asked him softly.

She had already determined that he was the emperor, but judging from his appearance, he was just a pale young man, maybe not as old as her, and she couldn't even say "Your Majesty".

The boy did not respond.

His eyes were closed and he was silent.

Yan Yuan hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her hand to touch the young man's forehead, and sure enough, she felt a slight warmth.

Fortunately, the heat is not too high.

Yan Yuan rubbed her hands together and breathed into her palms: "Are you hungry? I'll go find something to eat, don't run away."

He should have not eaten for a long time, and he has a fever right now. If he is hungry all the time, the fever will be worse.

She thought for a while, took off one of her coats, covered the boy's body, and then took her own bow and arrow and left the place.

There were too few prey on the snow field, Yan Yuan walked for a long time before hunting down a few unlucky birds.

She was not greedy, and returned to the shelter with a few birds, only to find that the boy had disappeared, and only a string of dragging footprints remained beside the campfire.

Yan Yuan: ...

Yan Yuan: My lord!What a troublemaker.

Yan Yuan could only hurriedly search along the footprints, and finally found the young man less than two miles away.

At that time, the boy was leaning on a wooden branch, hobbled forward in the snow with a limp, and fell down from time to time.

Yan Yuan stood not far away and looked at him, feeling that her head was getting bigger.

It is God's blessing that this person can live to this day.

She still wanted to make him suffer for a while, but suddenly found that there was something wrong with the boy's heading direction: there was clearly a deep ditch directly in front of him, but he seemed to be unconscious, approaching that ditch step by step... …

Oops.

Yan Yuan rushed up quickly, and at the very moment, grabbed his sleeve: "Be careful!"

The boy was forced to stop.

The rock beneath him rolled down the ravine, echoing hollowly.

The young man turned his head in a daze, his eyes looking at Yan Yuan were as empty as an abyss.

Yan Yuan stared blankly at his face, then suddenly realized, she stretched out her fingers and waved in front of his eyes, but she didn't see any reaction from him.

She was surprised: "Did you...can't see it?"

……

This is really a surprise from heaven.

Yan Yuan brought the boy back to the safe haven.

She rekindled the fire, plucked the feathers of the hunted birds and put them on the branches. While roasting the birds, she comforted the young man: "Don't worry too much. If people walk too much in the heavy snow, their eyes will be temporarily blind. It's called snow blindness, and it will be cured in a few days."

She took pleasure in other's misfortune, and the corners of her mouth curled up secretly, but the boy couldn't see it anyway.

He has been sitting in the original position with his knees bent, his pale face has no expression, only a few strands of messy hair behind his ears, slightly blown by the wind.

Yan Yuan handed the grilled bird meat skewers to his mouth: "Here, let's eat."

The boy's lips were pursed into a straight line, he gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

"Eat, you still have a fever," Yan Yuan sighed, and softened her voice to coax him, "Don't worry, I'm a good person, the kind who saves the suffering and the needy, and won't harm you."

The young man was slightly taken aback, and quickly recovered his expressionless face: "Everyone says he is a good person."

Yan Yuan's breathing paused, she put down the meat skewer in her hand, and said seriously: "I came to rescue you under the military order, my companions tried to lure away the assassins for you, more than half of them were killed or injured, and the rest are still alive or dead. Can't you be considered a good person?"

She suppressed her emotions and her voice was muffled.

The young man was indifferent, he even slightly raised his chin toward the void: "They all have their own purpose, what's the difference between those who want to save me and those who want to kill me?"

Yan Yuan was stunned, and could not believe it: "But they are all dead."

The young man said lightly, "A lot of people died because of me, does that matter?"

Yan Yuan's eyes widened, she couldn't believe her ears, she couldn't understand how such cold words came out of the young man in front of her.

He is the son of heaven, the king of a country.

They stationed at the frontier, fought bravely against the enemy, and defended his high throne. They lost their lives in the snow field just to save him from the assassin, but he actually said so lightly that it was not important.

This is the king they guard.

Master of this world.

Yan Yuan stared at the young man fiercely, gnashing her teeth angrily: "But they are still dead! Just to save you!"

"So what? Human life is not equal."

"It's like you knew they were in danger, but still chose to find me and take me away instead of saving them."

The young man turned to face Yan Yuan, as if he could see her, with a mocking expression on his pale face.

He said, "Look, even you think a lonely life is more important, don't you?"

"you……"

Yan Yuan couldn't believe that the king of a country could be so shameless.

A nameless fire of karma was burning in her chest, she grabbed his collar, pushed him down hard to the ground, raised her fist to aim at his thin cheek and was about to hit him—but suddenly found that , he was laughing.

The corners of the boy's mouth were slightly curved, and there was a sneer in his dull eyes.

He lay on the ground calmly, and asked softly word by word: "So, are you still a good person now?"

……

Yan Yuan's fist did not hit in the end.

She let go of the boy, and ran to a farther place alone to calm down for a while, before realizing belatedly that she seemed to have been tricked.

He deliberately provoked her, and he might still want to run away.

Yan Yuan turned back in a hurry, and sure enough, she saw the young man walking out slowly by touching the stone wall of the safe haven. She was so angry that she wanted to laugh, and decisively grabbed him back to the same place, like an eagle catching a chicken, back to the campfire.

"Eat."

"Your life is very important, but it doesn't mean their lives are not precious."

Yan Yuan tore up the cold bird meat, pressed him with brute force, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"As long as you live, I will save you."

"When you die, I will throw you into the mountain. The wolves will be full after eating your body. Maybe they will let my injured companion go."

"If you really don't want to live, you can kill yourself right now, so that everyone can relax."

The boy was pressed under her, and he frowned fiercely, but he didn't struggle anymore.

He lay quietly on the ground, his breathing gradually changed from fast to slow. After a long time, he finally relaxed his jaw, slowly began to chew, and swallowed the bird meat.

Yan Yuan stared at him, waiting for him to eat the whole roasted bird before releasing the restraint on him.

She looked at his reddish eye circles and the messy hair around his cheeks, and thought that this man was the current emperor, and he couldn't see him now, so she suddenly felt evil from her gallbladder, and stretched out her hand to rub his head vigorously.

"So nice."

Yan Yuan said slowly.

(End of this chapter)