A good reincarnation
Early the next morning, even though Nangong Jingnu kept her movements light, Qi Yan still opened her eyes when the other party left the bunk bed.
Qi Yan: "Your Highness."
Nangong Jingnu said apologetically, "I woke you up?"
Qi Yan sat up with her body supported: "It's time for me to get up too."
Nangong Jingnv saw that Qi Yan's face was still not very good, so she persuaded distressedly: "There is no need to rush for a long time, just sleep for a while, and leave after lunch is the same."
Qi Yan chuckled: "How can you go out in the afternoon? This is against the rules."
Nangong Jingnu: "Why not? The rules are set by people."
While putting on her shoes, Qi Yan explained patiently: "His Royal Highness hasn't been out for a long time, so it's normal if you don't know. This way, you usually leave as soon as dawn, and you should find a place to rest in the afternoon. The curfew is imposed, and the second is to leave plenty of time to find a place to stay, and to avoid sleeping on the street. Now this world..." Qi Yan did not continue, she instinctively did not want Nangong Jingnu to know too much about the world.
Nowadays, the world outside Wei Wai is completely different in day and night. Due to various reasons, the surplus food in the households of the common people is generally not much, and the number of people with four walls has also reached its peak. At night, some of the good people during the day would sneak out of their homes and do their own tricks.
Even increased curfews and even increased penalties for theft in state capitals have had little effect.
Humans always have the lowest survival needs in the world. When it is a problem to fill one's stomach, no matter how severe your punishment is, you have to try it.
Gu Feng's letter stated that the fields were barren due to natural disasters, and some farmers' land deeds had already been sold. In order to avoid being punished for failing to pay taxes, many innocent people choose to be pirates.
Nangong Jingnu: "You are an imperial envoy, so you can stay in the inn."
Qi Yan: "There is only one post station every 100 miles. This trip has a guard of honor to greet the imperial concubine. It is impossible to travel at full speed. It is inevitable to stay at the inn."
Nangong Jingnv: "So that's the case, it's better to be slower... You also take the opportunity to rest on the road."
Qi Yan: "Yeah."
Nangong Jingnu: "Have you prepared your luggage?"
Qi Yan: "Yeah."
Nangong Jingnu: "Have you brought everything you should bring?"
Qi Yan chuckled: "Don't worry, Your Highness."
Nangong Jingnu lowered her head slightly, and quickly raised her eyes to look at Qi Yan: "Today is the palace exam... I can't go to see you off."
Qi Yan took Nangong Jingnv's hand to the dressing table, picked a golden step from the jewelry box and put it on Nangong Jingnv's head: "Wait for me to come back."
Nangong Jingnu: "Yes."
Qi Yan went back to the side hall alone, and instructed the palace staff to load the luggage and the books selected for reading on the road into the carriage. At the gate of the palace, the accompanying imperial physician Ding You and the guard of honor who greeted the concubine Yagui were already waiting there.
Qi Yan opened the curtain and glanced at it: "Let's go."
…
In Princess Zhuohua's mansion, Xiaodie and Nangong Shunv were lying on the bed, and the two under the quilt were naked.
In recent years, Qi Yan has found a lot of nourishing herbs and added them to Xiaodie’s diet. Coupled with regular acupuncture and medicated baths, Xiaodie’s shriveled body has gradually become plump, and her wheat-colored complexion has gradually become sluggish. It fades and becomes delicate and shiny.
Although there are still some dark scars on her back and calf, it is hard to see what happened to her tragically.
There were several purple marks on Xiaodie's neck and chest. She slowly opened her eyes. The pain in her waist made her groan softly. She pouted and rubbed her aching waist. Nangong Shunv, who was sleeping beside her, instantly brightened her expression, and her dark eyes were filled with tender attachment.
Xiaodie leaned into Nangong Shunv's arms and felt the other party's even breath hitting her face. She smiled and stretched out her index finger to touch Nangong Shunv's cherry lips, gently rubbing it.
Suddenly, Xiaodie seemed to think of something funny, a hint of slyness flashed across her eyes, she picked up a strand of blue silk from Nangong Shunv, and used the tip of her hair to scratch her nose.
Nangong Shu's brows slightly frowned, and she opened her eyes with a snort.
Xiaodie hurriedly closed her eyes, but the corners of her mouth betrayed her. Nangong Shunv was bewildered for a moment, and a happy smile appeared. She put her hand on Xiaodie's slender waist and hooped it tightly. Then she dropped a kiss on Xiaodie's forehead and closed her eyes: "Naughty~"
Xiaodie cuddled in Nangong Shunv's arms for a while, but she was very active and energetic.
Nangong Shunv sighed softly, opened her eyes again, and said dotingly and helplessly, "Aren't you going to be tired?"
Xiaodie blinked, not knowing.
When Nangong Shunv saw Xiaodie like this, her heart was sour, she couldn't love her too much.
A pair of slender hands became restless: "It seems that I'm not working hard enough?"
Xiaodie's face was red and hot. She was originally pure-hearted. Although she had already eaten the marrow and knew the taste, where was Nangong Shunv's opponent? He surrendered on the spot and begged for mercy: "Don't... in broad daylight."
Nangong Shu's hands kept moving, and she smiled softly: "I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?"
Xiaodie bit her lip, suppressed the sound that was about to overflow, and hummed softly, "Don't bother me, it still hurts."
Nangong Shunv immediately stopped and gently pushed Xiaodie up her waist.
Nangong Shunv: "I'll take a dip in Tangquan in a while, and I'll give you a massage when I come back."
Xiaodie: "Yeah."
Nangong Shunv: "What do you want for breakfast?"
Xiaodie immediately became interested, and stared at Nangong Shunv: "Flesh!"
Nangong Shunv couldn't help laughing: "Roast whole lamb?"
Xiaodie couldn't help nodding her head, as if her saliva was about to flow out at any moment.
Nangong Shu Nuqu scratched Xiaodie's nose with her finger: "Little Greedy Cat."
Xiaodie: "Don't my sister like eating meat?"
Nangong Shunv wanted to say that her taste was mild, but seeing Xiaodie's excited appearance, she changed her mouth: "I like it."
Through getting along with Nangong Shunv, she knew that although Xiaodie was mentally deficient, she was a very sensitive girl and a temperament who would rather wrong herself than cause trouble to others, which made Nangong Shunv very distressed.
If she answered truthfully just now, I am afraid Xiaodie would refuse to eat meat for several days. Nangong Shunv seemed to see her former self in Xiaodie. Although it was slightly different, it was essentially the same.
The kind of grievances and demands for perfection because of extreme lack of security, but Nangong Shunv can realize this, but Xiaodie can't.
Nangong Shu daughter held Xiaodie tightly in her arms and said softly: "Although this palace is not favored, it also has 3,000 households in Shiyi, not to mention one or two roasted whole sheep, even if you want to live forever , I can afford to eat meat at every meal three times a day."
Xiaodie licked her lips and replied, "I like to eat mutton."
Nangong Shunv: "I will let Lily enter the palace in a while, and pick hundreds of lambs from Luobei to raise them in the palace."
Nangong Shunv: "Will I get tired of eating only roast lamb? Would you like to add a Dongpo pork in the kitchen?"
Xiaodie shook her head into a rattle: "No! Only eat lamb."
Nangong Jingnu smiled and rolled her eyes: "Okay~, you can eat whatever you want."
Nangong Shunv silently wrote down this preference: Xiaodie seems to only like to eat mutton, and has no interest in other meats.
…
Days passed, and the team welcoming Concubine Yagui back to the palace also came to the north, and the prefectures they passed through were no longer as prosperous as Gyeonggi. Occasionally, a beggar in ragged clothes can be seen sleeping at the door of a closed shop with a broken bowl in front of him.
Some of the disaster-stricken counties had shabby shacks in front of the city gates, and many victims with yellow faces and thin skin were huddled together in groups of three or five, waiting for kind-hearted people to open the sheds to cook porridge.
It stands to reason that Qi Yan, as an imperial envoy, has gongs and drums to clear the way, and every time he goes, he has to clean the streets and sprinkle water.
But Qi Yan asked the honor guard to change their clothes and disguised themselves as an ordinary motorcade on the grounds of speeding up their journey and not disturbing the people, so that they could see this.
Along the way, Qi Yan's mood was ups and downs, and it was extremely complicated.
On the one hand, she watched the Weiguo market in depression, the people were displaced, and the victims were everywhere. There was a sense of revenge in my heart. How did the people of the grasslands be enslaved, traded openly, and abused indiscriminately all over the Wei Kingdom over the years? However, after repairing the city and draining the last trace of the grassland people's value, they slaughtered them with cruel means.
In the whole country of Wei, can one person stand up and say a fair word for the people of the grasslands in the "same hatred of the enemy"? Just because the eyes are different and the language is different, they are regarded as aliens.
But when did the grassland hurt the Wei Kingdom? From the beginning to the end, the Wei Kingdom provoked the war, invaded the grasslands, and slaughtered the people of the grasslands.
Now, seeing these Wei people have a home and can't go back, they are huddled in shacks that leak from all sides, waiting for alms like animals. It's just a good cycle of heaven.
Unfortunately, this happiness did not last long. Qi Yan didn't know how many of these victims were caused by herself, but Qi Yan knew that if the current trend continued, the peace of the Wei Kingdom would not last for three years.
At that time, the people's grievances boiled, and various places rose up to respond. In addition, the issue of military power had not been resolved for a long time. Nangong could not afford to be seriously ill. Lu Quan and the court were separated from each other. …
Either the Wei Kingdom's court was overthrown by people's grievances, or the Taiwei took the opportunity to negotiate terms with the court, or even let the history of the previous dynasty repeat itself - replace it.
Three years...
The Nangong royal family still has one emperor, three princesses, two defunct princes, five princes, Xing Jingfu, the commander of the middle book, the family of Taiwei's house, the family of Ding Yi, the general in front of the palace...
Can he fulfill his mission of revenge
three years.
It is for myself, and it is also for Nangong Jingnu's last time.
Qi Yan lowered the curtain of the carriage, isolating the carriage from the outside world.
"Ugh… "
Qi Yan let out a long sigh, if she can come back from Luobei safely, it's time to do it.
So, who to start with