After kneeling for too long and suffering such a great blow, Qi Changyi fainted in the rain.
When he woke up again, he was lying on the warm bed in his bedroom. Jiang Yubai was bandaging the wound on his palm beside the bed.
"Your Highness is awake? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Jiang Yubai asked with concern.
Qi Changyi stared blankly at the bed curtain above his head and shook his head.
Li Yu sent Jiang Yubai out of the bedroom. When he returned, he saw Qi Changyi still in the same state as if he had just woken up. He was motionless, as if his soul had been taken away from him.
"Your Highness, would you like to eat something? Don't starve yourself."
Qi Changyi remained silent.
Li Yu sent someone to bring some white porridge over. He scooped a little with a spoon and fed it to Qi Changyi's mouth. He still didn't move, like a doll without a soul.
It hurts. My head hurts, my palms hurt, my knees hurt, and most of all, my heart hurts. It hurts so much that I almost can’t breathe.
Qi Changyi curled up, covering his heart and burying himself in the quilt. Tears began to flow uncontrollably again, wetting a large area of the quilt.
He thought that Brother Pei also liked him, even if it was only a little bit.
But now it seems that there is not even a little bit, otherwise how could she be willing to send him to such a far place and let him marry someone else.
The little guy was wrapped in the quilt, curled up in a small ball and trembling.
When Zhao Litang came in, what he saw was a small bulge on the bed.
Li Yu hurriedly saluted, "Zhao..."
Zhao Litang made a "hush" sound and gave a look, and everyone in the hall retreated.
He has been busy with military affairs recently and has not seen Qi Changyi for a long time. He did not expect that such a big thing would happen. The emperor ordered the prince to marry a foreign princess
Zhao Litang didn't care about anything else and after meeting the emperor, he went straight to Qi Changyi's bedroom.
The courtyard outside was filled with a wide variety of rewards, which were very eye-catching.
He walked to the bed and tried to lift the quilt, but someone grabbed it tightly from the inside and couldn't lift it up.
Zhao Litang used a little strength to lift it up, revealing the little man lying half-lying underneath. Half of his face was buried in the mattress, and tears were still flowing.
She is so quiet and well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed.
Zhao Litang's heart ached violently and he wanted to pick up the little guy and comfort him in his arms.
He had just met the emperor, who actually ordered him to be the leader of the escort team for the marriage. It was difficult to disobey the imperial order, and no matter how reluctant he was, he could not resist.
But before his hand touched the little man, he shrank back in fear.
Zhao Litang's hand froze in place, and he finally put it back.
"Chang Yi, I'm Brother Tang, look at me, turn around and look at me."
**The little man didn't move.
"I know you are sad, but this is irreversible. I will protect you well along the way and send you to the barbarians safely. If they treat you badly, I will definitely ask the emperor to take you back, okay?"
The little man still didn't move.
Zhao Litang was a little worried, afraid that he would be upset.
"Chang Yi, hey, if you had listened to me earlier, left Pei Zheng, and followed me to the border, things wouldn't have come to this point today."
When Pei Zheng was mentioned, the little guy slowly turned around and spoke weakly, "It was Brother Pei who wanted to send me away..."
Zhao Litang's expression changed, "You know everything?"
Qi Changyi wrinkled his nose and nodded slightly.
"Who told you that?"
"Fourth brother."
"What do these two people think of you? Not to mention the Fourth Prince, he has never considered you a brother. He is only nice to you because you are not a threat to him."
Zhao Litang clenched his fists. "And Pei Zheng only treats you as a pet, calling you to come and sending you away at will. If your face was not so similar to the Fourth Prince, how could he be so obsessed with you?"
Zhao Litang had wanted to say these words a long time ago, but Qi Changyi was too fragile and naive. He was afraid that Qi Changyi would not be able to bear the cruelty of the truth if he knew the filthiness and evil behind people's hearts.
Sure enough, Qi Changyi's eyes, which had been dull at first, became focused again, but the overwhelming grief in them was too unbearable to look at.
"What, what do you mean, Brother Pei treats me... because I look like Fourth Brother?" Qi Changyi's voice trembled.
Zhao Litang nodded.
"He doesn't like me at all, so he is only nice to me when he is in a good mood, because he doesn't take me seriously, so it doesn't matter what happens to me, as long as, as long as Fourth Brother is fine, right?"
Zhao Litang reached out to wipe his tears, but Qi Changyi turned back, faced the wall, bit his fingers hard, and cried like rain.
Zhao Litang stared at his trembling back for a while with deep eyes. For a moment, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to tell him these things. Finally, he got up and left.
For two whole days, Qi Changyi didn't eat a single grain of rice and only drank some water. Then he kept crying and his eyes were swollen all day long.
He didn't say anything either, just sat at the desk with the manual with Pei Zheng's name on it open, which was stained with tears.
The day for the marriage team to set out has arrived. The prince's bedroom, which was unusually deserted in the past, is now flooded with countless palace maids, eunuchs and maids, who are busy running around.
A bright red robe was spread out on the bed, and beside it were many gold hairpins, jade pendants, rouge, powder and other women's items. The maids pulled the puppet-like prince over to sit in front of the bronze mirror and began to dress him up carefully.
Li Yu was very surprised when she saw this. "Mammy, how can this be a woman's dress? And the rouge, what's going on?"
The nanny looked around and didn't dare to say anything more. "Don't ask so many questions, sir. We are also following orders. We don't know much more."
Qi Changyi's face was very pale, and his usually rosy lips had lost their color.
Drawing eyebrows, applying powder, putting on rouge, and staining lips with blood-red juice, the person in the bronze mirror suddenly became lively, even if his face was full of sorrow,
She is a stunningly beautiful woman.
The maids exclaimed in admiration several times. They had no idea that the prince was so handsome. He was three times more beautiful than all the women in the harem. However, there was an indelible gloom between his brows.
"Your Highness, be cheerful. You are going to marry a foreign princess and represent the face of our Celestial Empire. It is not good to keep crying like this. It's like you are attending a funeral."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The maidservant slapped her face and said, "You have no right to speak here. Get out!"
The little maid went out, covering her face.
The nanny felt a little sorry for the little prince. In the past, none of the people who had gone to marry a foreign prince ever came back.
"Your Highness, please change your clothes."
Qi Changyi let several hands manipulate him.
She wore a long-skirted bright red dress embroidered with golden phoenixes. Her ink-black hair was draped over her head and tied into a beautiful bun, with a few wisps of hair hanging down from her temples. She wore a few gold hairpins embellished with jade on her hair. Everyone present held their breath for a moment.
She looks exactly like her, very much like Concubine Ning, who once shocked the world with her beauty.
The sedan chair was already waiting outside the bedroom door. Nanny led Qi Changyi out of the main hall. Everyone in the courtyard stopped what they were doing and watched the beautiful woman with eyes and eyebrows as charming as a painting walk out of the hall door, out of the courtyard, and out of the bedroom door step by step.
Qi Changyi stood at the door of the bedroom, and took a last deep look at the place where he had lived for more than ten years. His nose couldn't help but become sore again.
He is extremely familiar with every brick, every blade of grass and every tree here. After this farewell, he may never see them again.
Don’t cry, don’t cry, he told himself, let yourself shed all the tears you want to shed in the first two days, and then you are not allowed to cry anymore.
Since she is going to marry someone far away, she already has a husband. Since no one here misses her anyway, she might as well leave.
Well, I'll leave here and leave my heart here, so I won't be hurt again.
"Your Highness, it's time to go." Li Yu called softly from the side. He had already decided to accompany Your Highness to the barbarians. No matter how difficult and bumpy the future is, he will stay with the little prince.
Before Qi Changyi could shed tears, he bent down and got on the sedan chair.
When the sedan chair arrived at the palace gate, countless people and horses were already waiting there.
The mighty Celestial Empire had a huge contingent for marriage. General Zhao Litang, the Zhenyuan general, was the leader of the escort and led the imperial guards to clear the way.
Following behind came Amul and other envoys, who bowed and said goodbye to the emperor who was standing on the pavilion and watching them go, then rode their horses to catch up.
Then came the sedan chair that Qi Changyi was riding in. This time he did not lift the curtain to look outside, so he didn't know that the emperor, who was above everyone else, actually had tears in his eyes as he watched his sedan chair going away.
There were several other sedan chairs following Qi Changyi's sedan chair, but no one knew who was sitting in them.
At the end of the team were some gifts brought by the Celestial Empire to the barbarians, filling up twenty carts and all escorted by special guards.
After leaving the palace, the people on both sides of the street all stood obediently on both sides of the road. No one dared to look up, as those fully armed soldiers might come forward at any time and dig out their dishonest eyes.
The team soon arrived at the gate of the imperial capital and was slowing down its pace to undergo inspection.
After you go out, head southwest and you will be farther and farther away from the heavily guarded palace prison.
Qi Changyi sat alone in the empty sedan chair, clutching the red robe tightly around him. Now that there was no one around him, he didn't have to endure anything deliberately.
He was about to leave the imperial capital, and he had promised not to think about those things anymore, but there was a figure that kept hovering in his mind like a ghost, and a deep voice kept ringing in his ears.
“Always think of me and remember me.”
"Always trust me and never leave me."
But how could he do this
Now he was about to leave Pei Zheng, and he couldn't even see him for the last time.
Qi Changyi felt so heartbroken again that his eyes were blurred with tears.
It turns out that Brother Pei has always treated him as a substitute for Fourth Brother? Then when he hugged himself and kissed himself, was he thinking about Fourth Brother
However, now that she has been married to the barbarian leader, she can no longer think about Brother Pei all the time.
The connection between them might end from now on.
One of the few lines of poetry he learned was "A lifetime together as a couple."
Therefore, from now on, her heart and mind will only be occupied by her husband whom she has never met.
Qi Changyi closed his eyes and let the tears slide down the corners of his eyes.
Suddenly, a slightly cool hand covered his closed eyes, and another hand deftly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
A deep and seductive voice rang in my ears.
"Your Highness, why are you crying?"