Chapter 190
Hsien Yao excitedly held onto Xiangmian, and led the way to pick up the child.
“Hong Yue can already speak some Chinese, do you think he should call you Auntie or Auntie?”
“……”
Rong Xiangmian didn’t bother to answer, her mind kept flashing back to the frozen smile on her second sister’s husband’s face just now, and she always felt that something wasn’t right. Zhou Xian Yang had once reminded her to be careful of her second brother-in-law and not to be alone with him.
She believed in his intuition, which he had developed after so many years of fighting with people.
What she didn’t understand was that her second brother-in-law’s purpose was the same as theirs, to rescue the Princess, and to prevent the warring faction of the Northern True Kingdom from taking power, leading to war between the two countries.
Now that the matter has been settled, there should not be any accidents, right?
However, if his purpose of coming to the Northern Realm this time is different from theirs?
Rong Xiangxian suddenly paused in her steps and raised her head fiercely, her voice trembled a little, “Xianyao …… is too late, let’s go back first, tomorrow it will be brighter, and then we will go to pick up the child.”
Zhou Xianyao looked at her expression and knew that something important had happened: “What’s wrong?”
Xiang Xiang only asked, “Do you have any close friends around you who are good at what they do and can’t be seen by the general public?”
Zhou Xian Yao nodded: “I do have a few close guards around me, sent by En Ji to protect me. You sent word that Sang Yan’s consort wanted to make a move on me, so I told them not to act rashly, allowing me to be held hostage, which gave me the opportunity to expose Sang Yan’s true colors.”
Mr. Rong Xiangxian said, “Good, call them all here and follow us into the tent to wait. I have a doubt, I want to try later, you see the opportunity to cooperate with me.”
As time was of the essence, Xiang Xiang walked and explained to her.
At this moment, Zhou Xian Yang was sitting in the most honorable seat in the tent, drinking and chatting with En Ji. The two of them met for the first time, but there was no rawness or awkwardness, and they talked freely about the planning of these days.
Eun-gi was already blushing after a few cups of wine, and said, “Thanks to Fourth Brother for sending me the plague treatment formula in a secret letter, otherwise I would not have been able to put on this big show. Right now, the king’s army has a crushing advantage over the other tribes, so I can take over the Northern True Kingdom as soon as possible. To be able to successfully take over the position of the country’s lord under a group of jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards, cannot be separated from Fourth Brother’s planning.”
“You and Xian Yao are deeply in love, I naturally hope that you will be able to take the position of State Lord, so that she can have a peaceful life ……”
Saying that, Zhou Xian Yang drank another cup. The wine on the grassland was really strong, and when he went down, he only felt a cold fire that burned from his throat all the way into his abdomen, and his eyes were instinctively agitated with a watery glow.
He blinked, glanced at his second brother-in-law on his right, and introduced Enji, ”This is Song Yexing, the world’s son of the Duke of Changguo’s residence, and also the second brother-in-law of Sagami and me, so we’re all related, to put it mildly. The generals he led infiltrated several other tribes separately, and he deserves a lot of credit.”
Enji smiled and nodded his head in greeting, offering him a toast, and Song Yexing immediately stood up and respectfully raised his cup to drink it all, congratulating Enji again on taking over the throne.
One by one, the rest of the generals also took turns to come and toast Enji and King Yu.
Zhou Xian Yang rubbed his heart and said, ”I’m sorry, it’s not that I’m putting on airs, it’s really that after being hit by an arrow here, my body hasn’t been fully healed, and the crown princess has always instructed that I shouldn’t drink too much alcohol. Brother-in-law, you know ……”
Song Ye Xing laughed, “That’s natural! All of you don’t persuade King Yu’s wine, or else I’ll have to get face down by Consort Yu!”
Thus, the crowd’s wine rushed more and more towards Enji, and the few close followers around him.
Only, before the people could get drunk, Queen Bei Zhen Wang and Consort Yu had already appeared together at the entrance of the tent.
The two of them went and returned, and a trace of surprise crossed Zhou Xian Yang’s face.
“Didn’t you say you were going to see Hong Yue?” He stared at Xiang Xiang, his tone a little nonchalant.
“Just now I ran into another snake outside, it’s better to wait until tomorrow’s dawn to go, so as not to scare the child!” Xiangmian walked in as if nothing had happened. Zhou Xian Yang’s deep quiet gaze fell on her, and finally reached out towards her somewhat helplessly, Rong Sang Mi took her hand as usual and sat beside him.
Enji swept a glance at the several maids that followed Princess Zhaoren in, all of which were the dead servants he had arranged, sensing that the situation was not right, and while pouring wine for Zhou Xianyao, he took advantage of his drunken state to get next to her, and leaned in to ask in her ear, “Is there a problem?”
Zhou Xian Yao smiled and shook her head, pulling En Ji to raise her glass to toast to her fourth brother and sister-in-law: “I’m really happy that you guys can come, a family of flesh and blood not to talk about those polite words, in the future, if there is anything we can do, just greet us! If there is anything we can do, we will certainly spare no effort.”
Rong Xiangmian took a sip and choked on his tears.
Zhou Xianyao busy ordering people to take the Hui Guifei brewed fruit wine, to all present poured: “just so a few jars, I can only spare in the festivals, quietly drink a little, Enji want to drink, but I am depending on the mood, unusual not to give! You all, today are all dipped in Consort Yu’s favor.”
“I know, we’ll just accept her favor.” Zhou Xian Yang replied with a smile, and as everyone sipped on the sweet hometown wine that they hadn’t tasted in a long time, they were all thinking about it for a while, all of them missing their hometowns a bit.
Only Song Ye Xing, even the sweetest wine tasted as tasteless in his mouth. This kind of fruit wine, is to drink a few barrels, can not be drunk.
That Enji is a prairie man, strong wine in him has long been as common as drinking water, and now drinking fruit wine, the wine gradually dissipated.
The original plan, can only be put off for the time being.
When chatting, he also heard Yu Wangfei smiled: “I have a matter, I do not know if the Lord of Enji agree?”
“You and I don’t need to be outgoing, just call me by my name.”
“Enji, can you let go of Princess Zhaoren? She left the country and left home for two years, this time something happened, the emperor and your consort are worried about her so much that they can’t sleep at night, we want to pick up Hsien Yao to return to the dynasty to save her family, I don’t know if you can agree to it?”
This words, Enji immediately face some can not hang smile, tugging at the princess’s sleeve, a pair of black pupils through the childishness.
Zhou Xian Yao muttered: “I do also want to go back to see father and mother consort ……”
Enji said, “Xianyao and the child, indeed, should go back to see. It’s just that, all things are undecided on my side, and I must stay behind to resolve them. If I let her and the child go back, I will never feel at ease. Can we wait a few more months? At that time, I will accompany her.”
Zhou Xian Yang said, “The weather is comfortable now, so this is the best time to travel. If we wait a few more months, it will snow. Not to mention Xian Yao, I’m worried about Hong Yue, if he’s so small and bumpy on the road, will he be able to withstand it.”
This was a reasonable statement.
At this time, Song Ye Xing seized the opportunity and actively spoke up, “Why does Lord Enji need to worry? In the grasslands nowadays, the royal court’s soldiers and horses are the only ones who are capable and strong. Even if you are no longer in the country, there is no harm in having the trusted generals left behind by the old lord to take care of you. Besides, you are the noble son-in-law of the kingdom, if anyone dares to have any dissenting thoughts, our majesty won’t just sit back and do nothing. Just like this time …… you can just rest assured.”
At this time, another general also helped out, “The rules of the country’s dynasty, when returning to the door must be son-in-law accompanied by the daughter, you can accompany the princess to go back together, so that she can also be happy ah!”
Eun Gi was a little shaken when he heard each of them graciously invited, he glanced at Hsien Yao again for advice, seeing that she was obviously happier, after some consideration, he finally nodded, “Then after three days, when I finish my father’s funeral rites, and arrange for the affairs of the kingdom, I will set off together with Hsien Yao.”
After receiving an affirmative reply, everyone’s emotions rose even higher, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.
Three days later, on a windy and sunny day, En Ji formally took over the throne of the kingdom at the royal court under the oath of allegiance of the tribal leaders of the Northern True Kingdom. Zhou Xianyao stood beside him, and he added the queen’s crown by his own hand, accepting the kneeling worship of the crowd.
Rong Xiangmian was holding little Hongyue and stood to the side to watch the ceremony. The little guy was just naughty, looking at the grand scene in front of him, although he didn’t know anything about it, he was very excited, jumping around in her arms, and reaching out to reach for the garland of flowers that she was wearing on her head.
Zhou Xianyang had nothing better to do in the morning than to weave a flower garland for her from the grasslands.
Some days ago, when Aruna was on the prairie almost every day, she didn’t bring any gold or silver jewelry, so Muren used to weave a flower crown for her to wear, after all, girls love beauty.
Nowadays, they light up their identities and do not change their costumes when they meet, and still look forward to a new flower crown every day.
At this moment, Zhou Xian Yang, before the flower garland was poisoned, a handful of leather monkeys to carry over, held in his arms, convergence of a face of laughter, deep eyebrows sullenly look at him, not a word, but the little guy looked at the heart of the heart. The child will also read people’s faces, know that this uncle is not as good-tempered as aunt, some afraid of him, good as a quail in his arms.
“……” Rong Xiangmian was speechless, “You are going to teach your child like this in the future?”
“Huh?” Zhou Xian Yang was confused for a moment, he had never considered what kind of father he would be. Perhaps, it was time to give it some thought.
The carriage and entourage of the Lord of the Northern True Kingdom accompanying the Queen back to the Central Plains to save her family slowly departed from the Nair Grasslands. It took a full month of walking to get out of the grasslands of the Northern True Kingdom.
When they had to leave the place where they had been living for several months, all of them felt reluctant to leave, and Rong Xiangmian looked back at the green grass at the city gate and wet her eyes.
She knew she couldn’t let go of the freedom and pleasure of the grassland, the herdsmen and shepherdesses without any hatred or preoccupation, and stayed forever in that vast and boundless place.
Zhou Xian Yang wrapped his arms around her from behind and whispered, “Ah Ruina, the flower crowns will still be there.”
Rong Xiangmian looked back and stood on her tiptoes to give him a light bite, straightening Zhou Xianyao to a “tsk tsk tsk tsk”.
“You don’t worry about it and still have time to look at us?”
Zhou Xian Yao shrugged, “I’m relieved that he’s safe.”
They entered the border town and stayed in the local official post. Everyone took a thorough and painful bath, and then ordered several tables of sumptuous Guo Dynasty cuisine, which were delivered to each room.
When Song Ye Xing was on the porch, he saw Princess Zhaoren bring her children and maids of honor to join King Yu and his wife for dinner, and felt that something wasn’t right. He immediately walked towards the room of the Northern True Kingdom Lord and saw no one.
Later, after searching the entire official post, where was Enji’s shadow?
Song Ye Xing only felt that he had been tricked!
He finally couldn’t help himself and barged into the room of King Yu and his wife, interrupting their family’s peaceful evening meal time.
“Second brother-in-law, what’s wrong?” Rong Xiangmei smiled and invited him to sit down, ordering the maids to add a stool and a set of bowls and chopsticks for him, seemingly without a trace of weakness.
“Bringing Enji back to the capital is His Majesty’s secret order. If you do not want to disobey the holy will ……”
“So what if I defy it?” Zhou Xian Yang played with the wine glass in his hand, looking as if he was the same His Majesty who ruled on life and death. Song Ye Xing was out of his mind for a moment, then suddenly his body went ice cold, staring dead on at a new trigger finger Zhou Xian Yang was wearing on his hand.
That was Duke Chang, his father’s trigger finger.