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Chapter 139 The Kite Spreading Its Wings
"Tea."

The kite was handed to him.

"Grind some ink."

She began to turn her wrist.

"It's a bit boring. Open the window."

She walked over.

"Today's incense is too strong, go put it out."

She opened the incense burner.

……

"My mouth feels a little bitter. Bring me a piece of cake."

Zhan Yuan just looked at Yuanyi quietly, "Your Majesty, are you so anxious that you have nothing to do?"

"I...Okay, please step back."

She said yes, "Auntie is leaving the palace in the afternoon, and we may not be back tonight."

He raised his head and said, "Not coming back? Where will you rest?"

"Auntie always has a way. There are so many inns in the capital, so you can rest wherever you go."

He said, "That's inappropriate."

"Why?"

"Anyway, it's inappropriate. Remember to remind aunt to come back early and stop sleeping outside."

She lifted a corner of her mask and poured a cup of tea to moisten her throat, "Well, I'll tell my aunt."

He looked at Zhan Yuan's ruined profile and stood there in a daze.

When she put down the cup, she saw the emperor's direct gaze. She was a little confused and put the cup back, "I'm leaving first."

"Wait a minute."

She stopped and said, "What?"

"After the wedding, do you really want to go back to the North?"

She said, "Of course, my family is there. Besides, I like the grassland. What's wrong with going back?"

"can."

"Huh?" She was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "I have to go back."

"Are you unhappy staying in Liangzhu?"

She said, "I'm happy, but I will be even happier when I go home. I can't ride a horse in the streets of Liangzhu. There are no cattle and sheep here, and there is no boundless wilderness. Your Majesty knows that I like open places."

He nodded, lowered his head to write, and said nothing more.

What Zhan Yuan was most afraid of when she was a child was the Yan people's saying that a hundred steps can pierce the willow leaves, and those who can shoot through the willow leaves with a hundred steps will always hit the target.

With such archery skills, she would tremble with fear just thinking about it, which meant that if someone shot an arrow at her while riding a horse, she would definitely die.

Both her mother and aunt were married to her father, and her mother was often ignored by her father because of her poor looks.

The father gave almost all his love to the eldest lady and her child. She died of dystocia after giving birth to a girl. Later, the girl also failed to grow up safely, just like her unlucky mother.

When Zhan Yuan grew older, her father once looked at her for half an hour.

She was not sensible yet, but her mother noticed it later and told her because she didn't look like her mother, but like an eldest lady. As she got older, her father favored her more and more, compared to several others in the family. Of two siblings, she is the child who is most valued by her father.

So her father allowed her to disguise herself as a man and sneak into the martial arts training ground to practice martial arts with the boys of the Yuan family.

If not, Yuanyi would not have had the chance to choose her as an attendant later.

Yuanyi is very popular with the Northern Chu royal family, and the people in the royal court will do their best to support him as the crown prince. If your majesty cannot give birth to a prince, her mother once said this to her.

Before the eldest lady passed away, she and her mother lived a very hard life. Although her mother was the concubine of her father, she often suffered harsh treatment because of her poor relationship with her sister. At that time, she and her mother received As the income was small, my mother began to do embroidery and asked her servants to help her take it out and sell it.

She had seen her mother's hair hanging around her ears in the dark night. The faint candlelight from the window was not enough to light up every corner. Her mother's eyes were not good at that time.

Later, the eldest lady's child was born and was very good at archery. Her father made her a bow and arrow when she was very young. She was more promising than all the children in the family.

Her father said that she was still young, so he asked all the children in the family to let her go. But although her arrow clusters were made of wood, they were still extremely sharp. Such a small child could shoot arrows so accurately. She hid here and there, and was shot all over. Fortunately her arrow wasn't strong enough to penetrate flesh, otherwise she would have been shot to death.

Zhan Yuan looked at her mother's stitches on the cloth, and suddenly thought of the child's bow and arrows, which were passing through, and cold light appeared everywhere.

It was okay in the summer, and the mosquitoes in the small courtyard where they lived were tolerable. But in the winter, Liangzhu was terribly cold. When the wind blew, the windows couldn't be closed at all. The wind blew in through the gaps, and the paper was stuck and blown open. , whirring.Their bed boards creaked in the wind.

She didn't know if her mother regretted marrying her father. Although she was beautiful in the eyes of outsiders, she was sad on the inside. Only a person knew it. There should be some, otherwise her mother wouldn't have said to her little girl, "When you grow up, you need to learn some skills." , don’t be like your mother, who pounces on a man when you see him, without giving up any face.”

Later, she became a child who was not very gregarious. She was the most independent in the family. When other children were playing around, she would sit down and write honestly, writing each word accurately. They climbed a tree and went down to the river, and she secretly learned martial arts from the master her father hired for her sister.

She calmed down amid the noise of the children.

When she ran out of paper, she wrote on the sand. She didn't have a bow and arrow, so she found the materials to make it herself. Her mother laughed when she saw it and said that if she was on the grassland, she would definitely become a first-rate warrior.

But my mother forgot that women cannot be warriors. The warriors on the grassland are all men.

When he was young, Zhan Yuan didn't know.

So she thought that one day she would go to the prairie and be the bravest warrior.

Later, the children of the Yuan family were selected for the Royal Guards of Northern Chu, and she also went secretly.

Compared to her, they were so dazzling that she couldn't match them. They either had a distinguished background or were good at one of them in arts and martial arts. She could see at a glance that she had no advantage.

Later, her brother at home recognized her and took her back home.

The father had lost a daughter at that time and did not want to lose her again, hanging out with a group of boys. Even though she was still young and could not distinguish between male and female, he was still worried that something would happen, so he did not allow her to go out of her way like this.

She doesn't care, if she wants to make a contribution, she has to compete with the children of the Yuan family, so she must enter the palace.

Despite her insistence, her father relented and repeatedly asked her brother to take good care of her.

She tried her best every time she drew the bow and shot an arrow, but she was not as good as Makino who had learned to shoot for two or three days. When the Yuan family's children fell, she was the one who suffered the worst.

The only thing she could do was climb, maybe because her bones were light and she could climb very fast. Even if she had never learned to climb a tree, she could quickly climb to the highest point on the rope.Because she was weak, she was ostracized. Her brother knew it, but he was worried that they would vent their dissatisfaction on him, so he never meddle in other people's business.

Finally one day, a piece of paper was thrown into her book box. They told her to leave the martial arts training ground and not to come back again.

Gou Yue opened her book box and saw that all her things were broken. She called her over. At that time, she didn’t know whether Gou Yue could see that she was a girl. She stood in front of Gou Yue without shedding tears. He patted her shoulder and said something in Yuanyi's ear.

Later, Yuanyi often accompanied her.

He has always been wise enough not to mess around with those children, but he is not someone who deals with trouble impartially.

It seems that Gou Yue asked him to take care of her and not allow those children to exclude her anymore.

Yuanyi repaired the book box for her and took her to practice martial arts from that day on.

It was still cold in winter, but when she recalled the wind that year, she felt that it was much warmer than the wind in Liangzhu when she was a child.

Yuan Yi went to the North. His Majesty asked his children in the Yuan family to choose a few helpers to subdue the rebellious small tribes. She did not expect that Yuan Yi would bring her with him.

Naturally, her father still refused. At that time, his father was still in Beijing, and his relatives in Beichuan were no longer so close to his father, so he was worried that no one would take care of her when she returned to Beichuan.

She would never have thought that her father would take the initiative to tell Yuan Yi that she was a woman.

In a panic, she knelt down in front of Yuanyi and said, "I can do anything that men can do. You know, my martial arts skills are no longer as good as those of Makino. I can be your right-hand man."

Yuan Yi suddenly held her shoulder and said, "You swear, you will never betray me."

She swore to the south of Beichu that if she betrayed Yuanyi, her soul would never rest in peace.

The northern land is not as good as Liangzhu, and tribes are sometimes far apart from each other. Moreover, Yuanyi is young, and several veterans of the royal court are also old. The royal court gradually cannot control the surrounding tribes, and some even defect to the Ruozhi people.

She and Yuanyi had a hard time living in the North for three years. The children of the Yuan family who came to the Northern Chu royal court slowly found excuses to be transferred back to Liangzhu. However, Yuanyi was named King of Chu by His Majesty, and he could no longer leave.

Just as the Northland was getting peaceful, news came from the capital that His Majesty had passed away and the position of the crown prince was temporarily unknown. A few days after the news came, a group of people suddenly raided the royal court. They did not expect that the battle in Liangzhu would spread. To the north thousands of miles away, Yuanyi was unprepared for the assassination. Zhan Yuan could only block a sword for him with her body. If the sword was not stopped by the flying arrows of the royal guards, it would have almost chopped off her arm. , her face was still injured by the arrow sword, leaving a horrific sword wound on one cheek. Since then, she has been wearing a half-face mask all day long, and outsiders can only see the upper half of her face.

Yuanyi said that he had no intention of fighting for the position of crown prince. She climbed out of bed regardless of the sword injury and told him that those people came to get rid of him, which proved that the edict of passing the throne was probably written about him, so he must fight for it. A fight.

Returning to the capital without an edict is a capital offense.

But Yuanyi could not wait any longer. He led a group of troops back to Liangzhu alone, leaving the seriously injured Zhan Yuan in the north.

When he put down the rebellion in Liangzhu and sent people to take her back, she also took her heart back from the grassland.

He regards you as his emperor, Zhan Yuan thought, and he will always ask her what she wants.

One day he actually asked.Zhan Yuan told the truth that she wanted to return to the royal court and become the king of the North.

Yuan Yi looked at her and shook his head.

She thought that Yuanyi should be laughing at her for not overestimating her abilities. What ability did she have to become the king of the North?

However, if Makino becomes the master of the royal court, she will really be unconvinced, because after many years of experience, Makino has long been defeated by her.

She became angry. If she were a man, His Majesty might agree.

On her first day in Liangzhu, she was walking in the harem and met a woman running and jumping. The woman ran too fast and knocked off the mask on her face. When several people saw her ruined profile, they all revealed With a look of fear, Zhan Yuan quickly covered her face and put on her mask again.

Concubine Wu stopped everyone and said, "The injuries on her face were caused by the rescue. For the royal family, it is a meritorious service. How can you be rude?"

Even though she said that, the woman who had just knocked off her mask was still afraid and did not dare to approach her. Later she learned that the lively and active woman came from Ruozhi and was the best at boiling eagles.

They sat in the pavilion, and she stood by one side, listening to them talk about recent interesting events in the palace.

The palace concubines are dyed with beautiful khaodan, their slender jade fingers are even more beautiful, their foreheads are even more beautiful, and their skin is as white as a peeled egg.

Zhan Yuan lowered her head and saw the black mud between her fingernails. She slowly held her hand and covered the dirty nail ash without exposing her fingers.

She stood among them, and for the first time she felt less like a woman.

Mother said it was not good to live in the back house, and she once thought so. Are these women really happy living in the palace and enjoying themselves?She couldn't tell because the smiles on their faces were also genuine.

After some time, she understood that it was because they loved Yuanyi.

So the palace is her home.

She rubbed her fingers in hot water over and over again, but the hard calluses could not be washed away, and her skin was somewhat tanned by the sun on the grassland.

She was so frustrated that even she didn't know why she did this. She just felt that for a moment she was so sad that she wanted to cry.

She felt like she never got what she wanted.

Having said this, Zhan Yuan asked Gou Yue, "Auntie, do you think I should stay in Liangzhu?"

Gou Yue propped up her chin and looked at this girl, love and freedom. She clearly made a choice, but she regretted it. She was neither willing to admit it nor dare to move forward, so she could only delay it slowly. If she wanted Leave, you can leave immediately.

Having to wait until after the wedding is just to give myself an excuse to stay a little longer.

"Let's go." Gou Yue said.

"Northland is very good. Don't you want to be the king of Northland? Maybe you have been stationed in the royal court for many years and made countless achievements, and His Majesty will change his mind and ask you to replace Makino."

Hope arose in her heart, "Is that really going to happen one day?"

"Do you think you are inferior to Makino?"

"Of course not." She raised her head proudly, "I am better than him."

Gou Yue took a sip of tea and smiled slightly, "That's enough."

The kite dipped in the tea and wrote on the table, "Zhan."

"What is this?" Gou Yue asked.

"Now that we Chu people have taken control of the Central Plains, we have to write the Chinese character Zhongyuan, and we have to take the name of the Central Plains. My original name was Zhan Yuan. The kite is a small eagle on the grassland. It has long and narrow wings and flies very fast. Gao is a very ferocious eagle. My father did not name me. This name was given by my mother. My mother wanted me to spread my wings and fly high like that kind of eagle. However, my father later changed my name to Zhan Yuan. I am like a kite on a cup, I cannot fly high, nor can I leave him and my mother."

she sighed.

With one word, the family's expectations for her changed.

Gou Yue said, "The name is nothing. I used to be called Talan, but now I have a new name? If you make up your mind to do something, don't hesitate."

She smiled and said, "Auntie, I went to Beichu this time, and I may never come back."

"If that's what you pray for, then I wish you success and happiness every day." Gou Yue toasted her.

(End of this chapter)