Sovereign Lord wants me to confess

Chapter 32 Letter from Home
Ning Qing followed Ming Qiu all the way to Qingzhou City.

But before going to meet the suzerain lord, Ning Qing made a stop at the post station.

On the surface, Ming Qiu did not follow Ning Qing in consideration of Ning Qing's privacy.

But whether Ning Qing was secretly monitored or not, only she knew.

Ning Qing went to the post station and checked the message with the shopkeeper who was responsible for the distribution of the goods, and took out the package sent by his family from the side of the capital.

Although the world has established a rudimentary postal network, the rate of lost items and false pick-up rates is so high that it is a headache.

However, if the former cannot post something that is too expensive, there is a high probability that it will be fine.

The latter needs to be picked up at the first time when notified by the carrier pigeon at the post station.

"Let me see."

Ning Qing opened the cowhide package sent from home, and the first thing that came into view was a wooden box with two strings of crystal clear candied haws inside.

"Have you given up yet?"

Ning Qing looked at the snack and sighed a little, then picked up the first letter in the package.

This letter was written by Ning Qing's own sister, Ning Qiu.

This younger sister is three years younger than Ning Qing... Although her personality is not too bad, she will always do things that make Ning Qing feel tired.

It's like this snack sent over now...

What Ning Qiu wrote in the letter was 'learn from my brother's candied haws, and I want my brother to taste the taste and comment'.

Ning Qing's comment is don't just put maltose on anything and call it a dessert!

But this time the craftsmanship seems to have improved, and the appearance is pretty good?
While reading the letter, Ning Qing glanced at the inside of the wooden box. The two bunches of candied haws lying quietly inside had not deteriorated due to the long-term transportation.

Because the wooden box chosen by Ning Qiu itself is made of a kind of spiritual wood called 'Cold Crystal Wood', it is a natural fresh-keeping refrigerator.

But Ning Qing didn't like to eat sweets. The younger sister who was far away in the capital also specially ordered a sentence at the end of the letter so that Ning Qing could eat the two bunches of candied haws she made.

'Brother, you are not allowed to dislike my craftsmanship anymore!The bamboo sticks for these two strings of candied haws are what I begged from Yuelao Temple!It is said that as long as the girl you like can eat it...you will definitely be able to tie the knot with her and grow old together! '

Can definitely tie the knot with the girl you like?Are you making candied haws or... Mei X?
Ning Qing was a little speechless and put away the two bunches of candied haws for now, and let the Suzerain taste it when he has a chance.

Anyway, Ning Qing doesn't really believe in such things as seeking marriage in Yuelao Temple, maybe there is a god of Yuelao in heaven.

But if there are so many people asking for marriage every day in the temple, there will not be so many tragic and embarrassing love stories that day.

After Ning Qing finished reading the part about playing tricks in his sister's letter, he carefully read what Ning Qiu wrote later about his living conditions.

This part of the content is nothing more than emphasizing that her life has not changed in the past year. She still fishes and teases cats in the mansion, and then goes to the school to learn calligraphy and painting and the theory of a hundred schools of thought.

Ning Qiu also emphasized that her painting skills have been greatly improved. Even the teachers praised her for becoming a famous female painter in the future.

At the back of the letter, she also attached Cangzhu and stubborn stones that she drew with pen and ink, but there was also a howling little tiger painted on the stubborn stones.

"It's still famous through the ages, how did this kind of children's painting get into the hall of elegance."

Ning Qing wanted to laugh and read the last line of the letter.

But the last part made Ning Qing's smile temporarily subside. At the end of the letter, Ning Qiu kept telling his elder brother.

'Brother!I know that you will definitely read your mother's letter in the future, and my mother's words will definitely be a little heavy, but don't put too much pressure on yourself! '

"This is a matter related to our lives, how can there be no pressure."

Ning Qing opened the letter from his mother speechlessly.

The letter started with a normal question about how Ning Qing was doing in Qingxuan Sword Sect, and then got to the point very quickly.

"There are still three years before our family presents a son to the Dali royal family. Ning Qing, if you fail to achieve martial arts in the Qingxuan Sword Sect, you should come back as soon as possible... Mother can ask someone to arrange for you to enlist in the town of Southern Border The army is looking for ways to make contributions. '

Ning Qing felt a little heavy when she saw her old mother's entrustment.

'The period of offering a son'... This may be the curse of Ning Qing, as a branch of the Dali Dynasty, who bears the magical 'King's Blood'.

In addition to the cultivation qualifications and supernatural powers that allow the successor to inherit the ancestors with a certain probability, the blood of the king...

It also has another extremely terrifying role, which is extremely important to the stability of the entire Dali dynasty.

That is the founding emperor of the Dali dynasty, Emperor Litian... who can suppress those who bear the blood of the king to a certain extent.

The stronger the king's blood in the body, the more obvious Emperor Li Tian's suppression of his blood was.

Fortunately, the royal blood in Ning Qing's body was so thin that even Ning Qing's parents wondered...whether this child was their own.

Therefore, Ning Qing should not be able to feel the blood on the king's blood suppressing Ning Qing.

But other Dali royal bloodlines are different.

Emperor Li Tian was also very ambitious to use this characteristic of the king's blood as a tool for the Dali Dynasty to expand its territory.

Originally, there were many powerful countries and tribes with mysterious inheritance in Dali Shenzhou and its surrounding areas...

After Emperor Litian conquered and suppressed all of them, he started active intermarriage among the royal families.

Now in the territory of Dali Shenzhou, and even in many states around Dali, the tradition of 'whoever has the blood of the king cannot be king' has been continued.

But Li Tiandi's personal heirs are limited after all, and the king's blood has a side effect that will lead to low fertility.

This is also the reason why there are only a hundred direct descendants a thousand years away from the Emperor of Heaven.

Some of these descendants did not survive their own father's death on the spot because of their lack of cultivation.

So the offshoot of the Dali royal family was made a "covenant of offering a son".

According to the stipulations of the son-offering covenant, every few decades, offshoots of the Dali royal family must donate one or more heirs bearing the blood of the king to marry far away in Kyushu.

If any side branch family wants to be exempted from the 'promise of offering a son', it must have someone in the family who has made great achievements in the Dali Dynasty in these years and has enough martial arts to be exempted.

Ning Qing's family has long been in decline, and there is only one mansion left in the imperial capital when they are young, so this time, only one heir is enough for the covenant of offering a son.

But even one heir would be devastating to Ning Qing's family.

Ning Qing's father went to the southern border town army early in the early years in order to cope with this son-offering agreement, but he hadn't had time to make any meritorious deeds, and there was no news because of an accident until now.

Since then, the burden of building a career for the family has fallen on Ning Qing, the only eldest son.

"Alas... at worst, I, as a brother, should wrong myself and marry my younger sister to the frontier in the end."

Ning Qing is actually not under too much pressure now.

Before, the blood of King Ningqing was so thin that it was officially certified as a waste material that could not be regarded as the blood of the Dali royal family.

So in the worst case, Ning Qing's frail younger sister, Ning Qiu, can only marry to a distant frontier.

For Ning Qiu, a little girl who ran three steps and gasped for breath, it was a death sentence for her.

Therefore, the entire Ning family and even Ning Qing himself were under great pressure.

But now that Ning Qing has the Eight Desolation Forged Sword Bone, it is a breeze to conceive and nourish the royal blood in his body to make it prosper and meet the standard of 'passing the inspection'.

Thinking about it like this, Ning Qing felt no pressure in an instant. At worst, Ning Qing would marry far away in the frontiers instead of his younger sister, and become Prince Wencheng or something...

(End of this chapter)