Yin Ruxu met death again.
She died in the inner palace of the capital of Zhao State at the age of thirty-two, and she knew that she would soon wake up again, in the palace of the old capital of Yin State, in her Princess Palace, and turn back into the sixteen-year-old girl, and then repeat the same fate once again.
Yin Palace, Yin Capital
It was early summer, and the city of Yin was full of flowers, and the whole palace was immersed in the sweet fragrance of flowers. This was the splendid and fragrant capital, the most prosperous place in the country. The imperial city was located in the center of the city, a city within a city that looked magnificent from afar, with palaces and corridors.
King Yin had four sons and three daughters. Yin Ruxu was the youngest and the only princess who had not yet married. Although she was not born to the queen, her mother was also of noble status and was favored by King Yin. Her palace was located on a higher ground, so it was called the Terrace Palace.
This day was the Flower Bathing Festival, a day when all the girls of the Yin Kingdom prayed to find their ideal husband. The sixteen-year-old Third Princess Yin Ruxu was also looking forward to this day. The palace maids came to the palace early, waiting for the owner of the palace to wake up. They carried the gorgeous clothes shipped from the south, and whispered about how the gorgeous fabrics were woven, with envy and amazement on their faces.
At this time, in the hall, Yin Ruxu got up from the gorgeous tent and sat quietly beside the bed, her young and elegant face lifeless.
Sure enough, she came back again. She had died in the future and returned to the present countless times. Perhaps this should be called "rebirth", but this rebirth was torture for her, because even if she knew what would happen, she couldn't change anything. It was as if everything had been set, and the development of all things would only proceed according to all the decisions she made in her first life, and she could only be forced to watch herself make mistakes again and again, and die again and again.
She couldn't remember how many times she had experienced this. She only knew that she was like a prisoner, trapped in this period of time forever.
She was in a daze for too long, and the waiting maids noticed something was wrong. One of them walked in first, knelt at her feet and asked, "Princess, your wedding dress has been delivered a long time ago. Don't you want to wash up? The Bathing Flower Statue will pass by the palace soon. It's too late."
Yin Ruxu nodded lightly and stood up. The palace maid understood and asked the other palace maids to come in and help her wash and change clothes.
They looked at the princess who was silent and looked downcast, and they all felt strange. What happened to the princess? Although she was usually a quiet person, it was rare to see her so sad and silent like this, which really made people worried.
"Is the princess unhappy?" asked the maid.
Yin Ruxu shook his head but still said nothing, his whole body filled with a sense of fatigue.
"Well, the princess is so beautiful today. When she goes out, she will stun a bunch of people again."
"Yes, yes, the princess will definitely find her ideal husband!"
The palace maids chattered around her and escorted her out of the palace, preparing to go to the city gate to welcome the goddess of flowers. However, halfway through, a eunuch hurriedly caught up with her and took her back to Lady Wang's summer palace. Lady Wang was Yin Ruxu's biological mother. As soon as she entered the summer palace, she saw Lady Wang running towards her with tears on her face. She hugged her in her arms and cried, "My poor child, a child as beautiful as a flower, Your Majesty, how could you bear to send her to that kind of place!"
King Yin was also sitting in the Xia Palace, looking at the mother and daughter. His face showed a mixture of guilt and reluctance, as well as displeasure at being refuted.
"Now that the Wutu tribe is growing stronger, they are adjacent to our border and the relationship is becoming increasingly tense. Sending Axu to Wutu for marriage is also the result of discussions among the ministers in the court. As a princess of my Yin Kingdom, Axu should dedicate herself to my Yin Kingdom. What do you, a woman, know!" King Yin said in a deep voice.
Mrs. Wang continued to shed tears. "But the Wutu tribe eats raw meat and drinks blood. They are a group of savages who have no manners. I heard that all their men are ferocious. Our Ah Xu grew up in a beautiful place. If she goes to such a far place, where she has nothing, what if she offends the Wutu tribe leader and gets beaten to death? We don't know..."
King Yin was troubled by her crying, but he loved her after all, so he sat there without saying anything.
Seeing that he seemed to be wavering, Madam Wang hurriedly said, "Besides, even if we want to form an alliance, we don't have to form an alliance with the Wutu tribe. After all, they are just a tribe on the grassland. If we want to form an alliance, wouldn't it be better to form an alliance with Jin, Lu, or Zhao?"
Yin Ruxu, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but shudder when she heard the word "Zhao". Zhao was the place of her endless nightmares.
Zhao Xu, the King of Zhao, was the man she fell in love with in her first life. She still remembered that she was possessed by him at that time. Just because she had seen him once, she was obsessed with him. She threatened to die, forcing the King of Yin to give up the plan of sending her to the Wutu tribe for marriage and change to marry the State of Zhao. With the help and support of her mother, she went to the King of Zhao as she wished, just wanting to accompany that handsome and majestic man for the rest of her life, but she didn't expect that the nightmare would begin from then on.
She rose and fell in the palace of Zhao State and suffered a lot. Her hometown Yin State was also conquered and destroyed by King Zhao a few years later. The ambitious man Zhao Xu destroyed her homeland, forced her father and mother to death, and cruelly killed her child, but said that he loved her - she finally saw the true face of Zhao Xu, but it was too late.
When she first discovered that she could start over after death, she was ecstatic and wanted to change everyone's ending, but she soon found that she had no control over it. She couldn't reveal any information about the future. When she wanted to make a different choice from her previous life, it was as if she was controlled by something and couldn't help herself. She couldn't commit suicide because death was not her ending. She was trapped in a cycle.
Madam Wang noticed Yin Ruxu's trembling and pulled her in front of King Yin. "Your Majesty, look, Ah Xu is so scared. Let's forget about the marriage with the Wutu tribe."
Yin Ruxu closed her eyes painfully. If she could get rid of the shackles, she really wanted to tell her father that she wanted to go to the Wutu tribe and stay away from the State of Zhao and Zhao Xu. She had wanted to say this before, but she couldn't control her body. She had tried too many times, and those failures almost destroyed her.
"No, I don't want to go to Zhao State..." she murmured almost exhausted.
King Yin was stunned. "What did you say?"
Yin Ruxu was also stunned. She touched her lips and felt extremely shocked. She said it? Why, she shouldn't be able to control her body at this time. This accident made her suddenly excited. She suddenly grabbed King Yin's sleeve and tried to say again: "I don't want to go to Zhao State, I want to go to Wutu Tribe!"
I can really say it! Yin Ruxu was ecstatic, staring at King Yin, repeating this sentence over and over again.
"Son, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Wang didn't know why she suddenly said that, and was also shocked. "Are you sick? How can you say such a foolish thing! You don't even know where the Wutu tribe is, how can it compare to the State of Zhao? Be obedient and stop making trouble!"
Yin Ruxu finally waited for the opportunity to control herself. She was unable to calm down and was only thinking about changing. She turned a deaf ear to Mrs. Wang's advice and tried hard to express her wishes clearly to King Yin.
Although King Yin didn't know why his daughter was so excited, she took the initiative to express her willingness. As a father, he was very pleased and reprimanded Madam Wang, "Well, since Ah Xu is willing, you don't have to say anything. You are so ignorant and can't even compare to our Ah Xu!"
Only after being helped back to the palace by the palace maids did Yin Ruxu come to her senses. Could she really change
Madam Wang hurried to the palace and slapped Yin Ruxu as soon as she entered the room, scolding him, "What's the matter? You don't even listen to your mother?"
Yin Ruxu looked at her with a silent look in his eyes. Perhaps she didn't understand it in the first life, but after so many lives, she already understood that the reason why her mother tried every means to guide her to the side of King Zhao was for her brother. In order for her brother to inherit the throne of Yin, she needed the support of Zhao.
But how could the mother know that it was her actions that brought disaster upon the country.
"Mother, although Zhao Xu, the king of Zhao, is young, he is ambitious and cruel. He cannot be trusted. It is unwise for my brother to make friends with him." Yin Ruxu said.
"You are really unwise. Zhao State will surely become powerful in the future. What's wrong with making friends with it? What's more, I am doing this for your own good. The Wutu tribe is a grassland tribe. They have nothing. You won't be able to survive even a day there!" Mrs. Wang said angrily.
The mother and daughter eventually parted ways unhappily.
Yin Ruxu looked at her mother's back as she left angrily and tears fell from her eyes.
"But I'm really scared. I'm really going crazy, mother." But no one in this world can understand her fear.
At the beginning of summer, Yin Ruxu rode on a large cart, accompanied by hundreds of servants and guards, as well as countless treasures, gold and silver, tools, seeds, and craftsmen, and headed for the Wutu tribe.
The Wutu tribe has lived on the Qinghe grassland for generations, bordering the Yin State and backed by a Hengduan Mountain Range that looks like a Great Wall of snow-capped mountains. Once you see the towering snow-capped peaks that act like a barrier, you know that the Wutu tribe is close at hand.
…
"Wotu, it's time for you to go and meet your wife." The brown-haired man carrying a quiver shouted at a figure galloping in the distance.
The man was riding a black horse, with a bow and arrow drawn, staring at an eagle in the sky. When he heard the shout, he suddenly let go, the sharp arrow left the string, and with a cry of an eagle, the black eagle was shot down.
The brown-haired man ran forward and laughed, "You are worthy of being our tribe leader. You are the only one in the tribe who can shoot down a black eagle that high. But our brave and great tribe leader, you really should go pick up your wife. After all, she is the princess of Yin. Since you want to make friends with Yin, you can't just leave her alone. At least go to the edge of the grassland to meet her."
Wo Tu, who was holding the Black Hawk, wiped the blood off his hand and said in displeasure, "I don't like those delicate women in Yin State. They cry all the time. I'm so annoyed." He threw the Black Hawk to the brown-haired man and rode forward. His rough voice drifted in the summer breeze of the grassland.
"If she's a nuisance, I'll send her to herd sheep!"
Hearing the chief's words, the brown-haired man shook his head and laughed, then chased after him with the eagle in his hand.
…
"Princess, we have been in the grassland for a day, but we haven't seen a single person. Is the Wutu tribe so desolate? Where do they live?" The maid who came with the dowry sat next to Yin Ruxu with a nervous expression.
As for Yin Ruxu, she looked much better than she did at the beginning because she had hope in her heart. Sitting in the cart every day, she saw the changing scenery outside, and also saw the boundless grassland and vast blue sky that the man had talked about.
She had never been to the Wutu tribe, but she knew Wotu. This man was probably the only bright spot in her countless dark cycles. He once said that he would take her out of the cage and see the free sky, but after all, people cannot resist heaven. In the end, he died in front of her and was unable to take her to see his hometown.
"Ah! Princess, someone is coming!" A palace maid who was looking out through the curtain suddenly pointed forward and said.
A dozen horses were galloping in front of the wedding procession. They were like a whirlwind and approached in the blink of an eye. The guards stopped vigilantly and heard the other party shouting, "Chief of the Wutu tribe, come to greet the princess of the Yin Kingdom!"
Yin Ruxu sat next to the car door and opened the curtain.
Wo Tu came all the way on horseback, and although he was coming to greet his wife, he did not look happy. He asked his subordinates to negotiate with the officials from the Yin State who were sending the bride. He sat on his horse and casually took a sip of the wine bag.
Just then, he raised his eyes and saw Yin Ruxu lifting the curtain and looking out.
Wo Tu stared at Yin Ruxu from between more than a dozen people, and didn't even notice that the wine bag he had just taken a sip of fell to the ground.
The author has something to say: Mm, it smells really good.
Green is the King of Zhao and is eliminated at the beginning.