into the bosom

Chapter 404 The princess is back

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the outside of Feng'an City is filled with whiteness.

Although it was still twilight, the gates of the city were already closed.

At this moment, a group of people slowly came from the horizon.

Amidst the rumbling of carriages and horses, one of them turned his horse's head one by one, trotted back two steps, arrived in front of the carriage guarded in the middle of the team, and said softly, "Princess, Feng'an City is almost here!" The wind lifted the felt hat lightly, revealing a face as cold as ice, which was exactly the snow.

The curtain of the side window of the carriage was gently lifted, and a delicate and pretty face poked out from behind the window, except for Xu Jiao, no one else thought about it.

Xu Jiao raised his head, looking at the dark outline of the city wall in front of him through the snowflakes, his heart was full of mixed feelings for a moment, and he had a feeling of right and wrong, but close to nostalgia.

In a short time, they were almost at the foot of the city gate, so they could clearly see the closed city gate, Xu Jiao's eyebrows were slightly raised, and there was already a loud and hasty shout from above the city gate , "Who? The city gate is closed, and no one is allowed to come near!"

Looking up, a row of soldiers was already densely packed on the city wall, each with a bow in his hand, and sharp arrows pointing directly at their group.

"Bold!" Neg Xue yelled back, his cold voice filled with silent deterrence, "Open your dog eyes and see clearly, this is Mrs. Zhongyonghou, Princess Yingyue's carriage, the princess returns to the city, Who dares to stop you?"

The people on the tower were stunned for a moment, then several people looked at each other, whispered to each other for a while, and then one of them rushed down.

After a while, another clear voice sounded from the tower, "Is it really Princess Yingyue who is under the castle?"

Xu Jiao raised his hand and tapped on the wall of the car, and Xue understood, got off the horse quickly, opened the curtain, and helped Xu Jiao out of the car.

Xu Jiao did not get off the carriage, but stood on the shaft of the carriage, raised his face slightly to look up the tower, and said loudly, "That's right! I don't know which general is on duty at the tower? The princess doesn't make things difficult for the general. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the princess, it’s not too late to find someone who has met the princess to verify his identity and let him go!”

Xu Jiao was only wearing homely clothes, so naturally she had already changed into Central Plains attire. Her hair was tied up as a woman's dress, and there were not many jewelry on her body, but everything was exquisite.The two maidservants at the side held up the wind lanterns, illuminating her face clearly in the twilight and snow fog. Her posture was straight and straight, and she had a natural and noble attitude.

"Then there is no need to invite others. The last general, Chen Su, is just a small general at the city gate guard. He has just been to Qiuxi with His Majesty, and he was lucky enough to meet the princess once!" Said, the man He clasped his hands and cupped his fists on the top of the city tower, and bowed towards the city, "I have met Princess Yingyue in the end, so I offended you so much, I hope the princess will forgive me!"

The others knew that this was really the princess, and they panicked immediately, and quickly followed suit, "I hope the princess will forgive me!"

Xu Jiao lightly waved his hand and said, "You don't need to be like this. In this extraordinary period, you are also dedicated to your duties. In addition, the princess came back in a hurry. I didn't report it in time. Those who don't know are not guilty! Get up!"

"The princess is lenient, and the last general will thank you!" Chen Su said with a long sigh of relief, "The princess should have opened the city gates to welcome her back, but in this extraordinary period, His Majesty has issued a strict order that the city gates will be closed at sunset. People are not allowed to enter or leave. The Princess is a noble person, and the last general would not dare to stop him, but the servants of the Princess..." Chen Su's tone revealed a dilemma.

"General Chen, the princess's attendants are all the princess's mansion, the princess's red tassel army!" Negative snow frowned and said loudly, before she could say anything, Xu Jiao raised her hand to stop her.

"Under the snow, don't be rude! General Chen is willing to let the princess in. It's already a lenient, so let's stop embarrassing him! General Chen, look, can the princess bring some people close to me? Follower?" Xu Jiao's tone of voice was soothing from beginning to end.

"It's natural!" Chen Su didn't expect Xu Jiao to be so easy-going, and immediately turned his head and told his subordinates, "Quick! Open the city gate for the princess!"

As he said that, he brought people down the gate tower.

Xu Jiao turned his head and said to Hong Ying behind him, "Let Xue and Wen Tao enter the city with me first, and you take the rest of the people to stay outside the city for an extra night, and enter the city after the inspection tomorrow morning!"

"Yes!" Hongying didn't say a word.

At this time, the heavy city gate also opened with creaking muffled noises, and a group of soldiers rushed over to meet them. The general in heavy armor first bowed his fists to Xu Jiao, and said respectfully, " At the end, I will pay my respects to the Princess, how much I have offended you, Princess Haihan!"

"I didn't expect General Chen to be so young. He is so young and promising!" Under the faint light of the wind lamp, the young general's straight face was reflected. I don't know if it was because of the candlelight, or because of Xu Jiao's words. His face suddenly turned red. "General Chen Shen and the soldiers under his command are people who are dedicated to their duties. It is because of you soldiers that we, the Great Wei, are able to stand firm at this time. If we can overcome the difficulties, the Princess of the county will definitely report to His Majesty and discuss meritorious deeds." reward!"

Although it was a scene, something she had to say as Princess Yingyue, but Xu Jiao just had the ability to say it with the utmost sincerity.

Seeing that the soldiers headed by Chen Su became agitated because of her words, Xu Jiao felt very guilty, so he stopped talking, helped Xuexue's hand, changed hands and got into the carriage again.

The sound of horseshoes shattered the quietly falling night, and the carriage swayed past the city gate.

Standing at the open city gate, looking at the carriage slowly walking towards the end of the long street, the soldiers finally found their voices.

"This is the Princess Yingyue! You said she has left Feng'an, why did she come back at this time?"

"That's right! Although she is only the adopted daughter of the Eldest Princess, she is also a princess personally appointed by His Majesty, and a member of the royal family. If..."

"I think Princess Yingyue's heroic appearance is a bit like that of the eldest princess that I heard from the elders in the family before. Perhaps, it is because the Great Wei is in danger now that Princess Yingyue has come back now? Princess Gao Yi!"

"That's really possible!" These people said, with a touch of admiration added to their tone.

"But she's a weak woman, so what's the use of coming back? She can't say, but she just can't let go of this glory and wealth. Want to get some benefits?"

"Now the rebels are just besieging and not attacking, and we don't know who will win."

These soldiers had limited horizons and couldn't say anything about the current situation, so they started talking about other things, and everyone liked and cared more about gossiping.

"I never imagined that one day I would be able to see the royal princess so close and listen to her talk! The princess is really pretty... It's just a pity that she was widowed at such a young age!"

"What's the matter? There are quite a few princesses and princesses who have remarried in this dynasty. What's more, no matter how bad it is, what's the point of raising some face heads? That's a dignified princess, how could she be willing to be a widow at such a young age?"

"That's right! She just praised our general Chen as young and promising. Do you think she has taken a fancy to our general?"

"If you want me to say, the appearance of our general is also heroic. If you want to say that this temperament is even more gentle than the husband of the princess... I have never met the husband of the princess, but he He has the title of Living Hades, and I heard that he kills without batting an eye. It's a pity that the princess, who is as beautiful as jewels, was assigned to such a person, and was burdened by him, and became a widow at a young age! "

"So what's wrong with people killing people without blinking an eye? That's the former governor of the police department. He has great power in Feng'an City. Otherwise, how could he marry the princess? How can we compare?"

"What's the matter? The general is not lucky to be a princess, but if the princess likes someone like the princess, it's not a loss to be a good friend of the princess..." As he spoke, this The tone of the voice gradually changed, bringing out a bit of meat.

"I see, it's not our generals, but you want to climb high branches, right? It's a pity, with your looks, even if you recommend yourself as a pillow, the princess will not see you!" Several men gathered together and laughed ambiguously. stand up.

"Shut up!" At this moment, there was a low shout from behind, and these people were startled, and they turned their heads to meet Chen Su's ashen face, "Dare to make up private words of the princess behind others, Do you think that the head on your chest is too securely embedded, and you want to try to see if it will fall? You can remember that Feng'an City is still under the imperial court. If you are tired of living, you can talk about the princess Gossip, see if anyone comes to chop your heads off."

The gossip soldiers all turned pale when they heard this, and hurriedly said, "The little ones are all deluded by lard, and talk nonsense for a while, the general should take care of you, I don't dare to wait any longer. "

"Yes! Don't dare again."

Chen Su's face softened a little, and he still said in a deep voice, "I've said everything that needs to be said, so you can take care of yourself!"

Those people all agreed, turned around and left in despair.

Standing in the shadow under the city gate, Chen Su turned his head and looked into the city. The shadow of the carriage could no longer be seen at the end of the long street. The encounter just now was more like a beautiful dream.

Xu Jiao didn't know this at all, and traveled all the way from the grassland almost day and night, rushing back non-stop, but the road was not easy, and it took a full month to walk, and she suffered a lot along the way, fortunately, she Nowadays, he is also a person who has experienced hardships, and does not take this bitterness in his eyes.

But now that he has returned to Feng'an City, he still doesn't know what he will face in the future.Compared with the vast but free grassland, this prosperous and beautiful place is more like an exquisite cage, which made her feel suddenly suffocated even her breathing.But she had to come back. Life on the grassland was hard, but her heart was open. Feng'an was a place where power and conspiracy clashed. What's more, day after day, the thoughts in her heart were already overflowing. contented.Leaning on the wall of the carriage with his sleeves folded, as the carriage swayed, his eyes were half-downcast, and the thoughts in his eyes were completely hidden under the shadow of close eyelashes.

While the carriage was driving, the lights on both sides of the street occasionally screened in through the gaps in the curtains of the carriages, reflected on people's faces, flickering on and off.

From the city gate, Lingxue and Wen Tao got into the carriage together, and Lingxue looked at Xu Jiao's face, but there were some things she had to ask, so she had to bite the bullet and ask softly, "Let's go back to Jingfu first tomorrow." ?"

"No! Let's pass the sign and enter the palace first!" Xu Jiao said with half-cast eyes.

"But..." Negative Xue vaguely knew that the main reason why the princess hurried back to Feng'an at this time was because of the news from Jingfu, she thought that the princess would be in a hurry to return to Jingfu.

Xu Jiao finally opened his eyes, and glanced at Lingxue faintly, "Don't forget, we broke up with the Jing family back then. We rushed to Jing's mansion as soon as we came back, not to tell others that although I am not in Feng'an, Are you still very clear about what happened to Feng An? With that person's suspicion, this is a big taboo, and it may even implicate the mother."

After hearing this, Lingxue suddenly became excited, her complexion changed slightly, she lowered her eyes and said, "It's because the servant girl is not thinking well."

"Now that something has happened, no matter how urgent it is, it's useless. Take your time, someone must tell me that something happened to the Jing Mansion first, so that I can visit the house openly." Xu Jiao said with dark eyes.

After saying this, the tiredness on Xu Jiao's face became even worse, he frowned and closed his eyes, and said, "Call me when we get there!"

"Yes!" Negative Xue and Wen Tao agreed, and they held their breath all the way, not daring to speak.

For a while, only the clattering of horseshoes and the sound of the wheels turning forward could be heard.

Until the carriage jerked slightly and stopped, there was a handlebar-like sound from outside the carriage, "Princess, we're here."

Negative snow lifted the curtain of the car, and sure enough, she saw the familiar yet unfamiliar door lintel of Zhongyonghou's mansion in the snow and mist of the night. She turned her head and was about to call Xu Jiao, but she opened her eyes at some point, with a pair of Her clear eyes seemed to be stained with the coldness of the snowy night. When Neg Xue looked over, she happened to raise her eyes to glance over, and the look in her eyes at that moment was almost exactly the same as that of Mo Chuohe.

Others say that the appearance of husband and wife means that the longer two people are together, the shadow of each other will gradually appear in their bodies, and they will become more and more similar, right?
When she was thinking wildly, Xu Jiao had already extended her hand to her, and Neg Xue quickly woke up, supported Xu Jiao, the master and servant got out of the carriage one by one, Wen Tao followed closely, holding a hand in her hand. Xu Jiao covered her head with an umbrella when she got out of the carriage.

Xu Jiao raised his eyes, looking up at the closed door of Zhongyonghou's Mansion through the snow curtain, he really felt as if he had been separated from another world.

"Go and call the door!" Xu Jiao turned her face towards Lingxue. Before leaving Feng'an, Xu Jiao specially told Qin Niang to close the door and live carefully, plus the time when she "wears filial piety" for He Lianshu What she did to dissuade many people who still want to use her to climb high branches, the desertedness of the Zhongyonghou Mansion is completely expected by her, so she is not surprised at all.

"Yes!" Negative Xue replied, she pulled her skirt back up the stone steps, and knocked on the buckle when she reached the door.

There was movement behind the door, and after a while, the door of the mansion opened a gap, a pair of eyes poked out from the gap, saw the snow outside the door, passed her, and saw behind her, standing in the snow Xu Jiaoshi under the middle umbrella, his eyes widened in surprise for a moment, and then he became happy. While opening the door of the mansion, he said to the people around him, "Quick! Go and report to Qin Niang, and say that the princess is back."

(End of this chapter)