Chapter 138: The Princess Must Not Be Afraid of Setting Out for the Border Guard House
Luo Xihe really wanted to open her eyes, but her actions were beyond her control. Hanmei, who was standing beside her, was already trembling with fear, with her mouth wide open and tears streaming down her face, but she dared not make a sound.
Luo Jin'an walked slowly towards the little girl who lowered her head. Seeing this, Hanmei stretched out her arms and said in a trembling voice, "What...what are you going to do? This is...Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Luo Jin'an ignored Hanmei and looked up and down at Luo Xihe who was being pushed out for marriage. The little girl was wearing a long dress with complicated embroidery. Her small face looked even paler against the red dress. Her hands tightly grasped the scarf, which showed her fear at the moment.
"Look up."
Luo Xihe did not dare to resist. He slowly raised his head, opened his eyes with trembling eyelashes, and instinctively wanted to lower his head when he saw the person standing in front of him.
Luo Jin'an didn't give her this chance. He lifted her chin with his hand and asked coldly, "Are you scared?"
Luo Xi could no longer maintain her pretended calmness, tears filled her eyes and then rolled down, wetting Luo Jinan's fingers.
Luo Jinan withdrew his hand, looked directly at Luo Xihe and said word by word: "You can be afraid, but the legitimate princess of the Sheng Dynasty cannot be afraid."
Before Luo Xihe could react, a dagger was stuffed into her hand, and then she fell into Wei Han's chest.
"Princess…"
Hanmei swallowed back the words before she could say them. Luo Jinan surrounded Luo Xihe and stabbed the dagger in her hand deeply into the chest of the gauze-clad waitress.
When the dagger was pulled out, a few drops of blood fell on Luo Xihe's slightly pale face. For a moment, the girl holding the dagger dripping with blood looked a little more charming and frightening.
Luo Jin'an ignored the little girl's trembling hands and shouted to the soldiers, "Today, someone wants to offer our princess to Emperor Yan. Are you willing?"
"Unwilling—unwilling—"
"Yan Yang has evil ambitions. He has occupied my territory and humiliated my subjects. Today, I swear in the name of the royal family that I will take back my three border cities. Are you willing to join me in killing the enemy?"
"I wish—I wish—"
"Okay, Liu Fei, listen to my orders."
"Humble position"
"Lead 10,000 troops to meet the enemy head-on, and suppress the enemy from entering the city at all costs."
"Follow orders"
"Humble position"
"Lead 8,000 troops to besiege the city, and after the enemy enters, use fire to break through the city."
"Cheng Si obeys orders"
“…”
Luo Jin'an originally planned to attack the camp tonight, but Wen Shaoxuan gave him a better opportunity. When two armies confront each other, in addition to the talents of the generals and the use of tactics, the morale of the soldiers is also particularly important. Now is the time when the morale of the entire army is at its highest.
Luo Jinan arranged everything and got on his horse. Only then did he seem to remember that Luo Xi was the same as him.
"Hold the dagger tightly in your hand and take your men to the Border Envoy's Mansion in Yangcheng."
After saying this, he led a large group of people out of the camp without waiting for the other party's response.
Hanmei looked at the figure that was already going away and then at the princess beside her, not knowing what to do for a moment.
On the other hand, Luo Xihe seemed to have recovered from her previous fear. She straightened her clothes and bowed solemnly. She looked at the receding army and whispered, "Xihe respectfully sees you off, brother, and awaits the triumphant return of the army."
"Princess, what should we do?"
Luo Xihe straightened up, took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off the dagger, put the dagger into his sleeve, then turned around and looked at the guards kneeling on the ground.
Now there are only a few dozen guards left, and the hundreds of people who followed them have just been killed.
She tried hard to ignore the corpse beside her and told the chief guard: "Get ready to set off for the border envoy's mansion."
The captain of the guards bowed his head and accepted the order. When he stood up, he found that his back was already soaked with cold sweat. A gust of cold wind blew and he couldn't help but shiver.
Just now, he was almost unable to return to Shengdu. He looked up at the sky which was already darkening and raised the corners of his mouth in relief.
The rest of the guards also sighed with lingering fear. Fortunately, they had nothing to do with the Wen family.
Luo Xihe sat quietly in the slowly moving carriage, letting Hanmei take care of her makeup.
Hanmei looked at the quiet princess with some concern, and asked cautiously, "Princess, were you frightened just now?"
Hanmei did not agree with Luo Jinan's behavior. The princess had never seen such a fight since she was a child, let alone killing someone with her own hands.
She couldn't help but recall that the princess had been so frightened that she couldn't sleep for several nights after seeing Princess Changle punishing the palace maids. Thinking about the scene just now, she wondered how scared the princess must be now!
Luo Xihe looked down at her hands, and for some reason she no longer felt the fear she had at the beginning. She was even very glad to have met Luo Jinan here.
If it weren't for this brother whom she had never met, her fate would have been so tragic.
Luo Xihe touched the dagger in his sleeve and said to Hanmei seriously: "You and I should thank Prince Chang. He pulled us out of the quagmire." Looking at Hanmei's worried eyes, Luo Xihe smiled and said: "I'm not afraid anymore. I won't be afraid of anything in the future. Brother is right. I am the legitimate princess of the Sheng Dynasty. I can't be afraid."
Hanmei looked at the princess who was smiling gently and felt that the princess had become more majestic overnight. Perhaps this is what people often call the royal majesty.
The group arrived in Yangcheng just before curfew, otherwise they would have had to sleep in the wilderness.
Frontier Guard Office
Guan Minghui had a hard time during this period, and the first thing she had to do was to reorganize the servants in the mansion. Because Zheng Yan had only been here for a short time, and when he first came, he only brought people around him, so most of the servants in the mansion were added later.
It was precisely because the servants had different rules that the rumors spread all over the mansion. Guan Minghui spent half a month, using both kindness and force to tidy up the mansion.
Although the Border Guard Office is not an iron bucket, it is not easy to get some information from it.
There was nothing to do tonight, so Guan Minghui went to bed early. When she was half asleep and half awake, she heard the maid knocking on the door.
Zhilan walked over to open the door in a daze, draped over her clothes, and asked yawningly, "Granny Chen, what's the matter so late?"
Mrs. Chen smiled flatteringly and whispered, "Miss Zhilan, there was a message from the front yard saying that there is a guest from outside the mansion, coming from the border. I dare not make a decision on my own, so I came to ask Madam. What do you think..."
Zhilan nodded, "Then please wait a moment, I will go and tell my wife."
"Hey, hey," Mrs. Chen responded busily, waiting outside the door in an orderly manner.
If the outsider hadn't said he was from the border, Mrs. Chen wouldn't have wanted to come over and spread the word. She was really a little afraid of her own wife.
She looked like a weak girl, but who would have thought that her methods of punishment were so cruel? Whenever she thought of the bloody appearance of Mrs. Wang in the kitchen, she could not help but shudder.