Chapter 158: How many years will she be sentenced for having an affair with the queen?
This is truly devastating news.
——For some people.
If the label "Queen Yan" is just a hot topic that can make people excited after dinner for people from other countries, then for the people of Yan, it is a real pain.
The Yan people here do not refer to the group that lived five hundred years ago.
——Refers to the officials who were about 400 years old and grew up listening to rumors about the Demon Queen after Suzuki Sonoko completely disappeared.
From the very beginning, they faced the seemingly dissolute but actually wise and brave Prince Shanglong of Yan. While their blood was boiling with passion and they only wanted to serve the king, they naturally had to recall the past in the history books.
Think about it, even though Lord Tali was so wise, there was still such a mysterious dark history of him being blinded by love in the records, which was so serious that it required the prime minister of a country to die together to erase it.
——Just talk about things like [cheating]. If you want to cheat an ordinary person, the technical requirements may not be high, you just need to make up a lie.
But by analogy, how powerful must she be to be able to deceive the wise and powerful Lord Tali, the culprit who created this dark history?
Take the assistant scholar of Prince Yan at this time as an example:
From the time he started studying in the provincial capital to his continued training after becoming an official, the masters could not help but sigh from the bottom of their hearts when they looked at the prosperity of Yan Kingdom.
——Fortunately, that evildoer died early.
He, and thousands of young people like him, entered the officialdom almost by listening to such words.
The depth of this cognition increases in direct proportion to the knowledge reserve.
It was said a thousand times and it became true, so even though the evildoer had been dead for five hundred years, there were not many detailed and concrete deeds of the "evildoer" left behind. However, in the officialdom of Yan State, her existence was still mysterious like an untouchable hidden scar.
This subtle sense of prevention is comparable to guarding grain warehouses against rats after the annual harvest.
In fact, he couldn't have imagined that the dead rat, who had been gone for five hundred years, could actually come back to make trouble!
The sunset in the refugee resettlement area is no different from the sunset in Xuanying Palace, but the young attendant standing in the sunset has a stern expression as if he is about to go to the execution ground, and his eyes are filled with red bloodshot with worry.
The team stationed nearby was deployed in accordance with Wang Lingxian's orders.
This black frame is newly assembled.
The decorative items inside were dug out from the storehouse one by one by the female officials under the king's instructions.
Including today, Prince Yan has skipped seven grand court meetings.
Although this did not greatly hinder the operation of the country, it was clearly a sign!
Look at it now, the Lord said he would come to inspect the resettlement camp, but instead of checking on the displaced people first, he went straight to the source of disaster!
——Could it be that these five hundred years of prosperity were just your incubation period?
The attendant was very confused when he thought about the intelligence of his master who was about to be in trouble and debuffed again.
As a result, he walked around in circles with a stern face and was shocked to find that things seemed to be more serious than he had imagined.
The loyal attendant looked at the red-haired young man standing in front of the thatched hut, who seemed to be still in a daze. He sighed seriously and waved to the soldier standing beside him.
"Come here!"
He pointed at the red-haired boy and whispered, "Go find two people and capture him first—"
Before the word "stay" came out, the master's voice suddenly came from inside the house.
The attendant answered "yes" in a loud voice, glanced at the red-haired boy with hatred, and his eyes turned away for some reason. He gave up the idea of arresting this man and walked into the house thoughtfully.
Inside the low thatched house, the newly made palace lanterns had already been lit.
The space here was surprisingly small. When Komatsu Naotaka held the lamp and lifted the curtain, the warm light immediately enveloped the familiar face in the haystack.
"Every time I see you, you're lying in a pile of straw in such a mess..."
——When we first met, this guy was squatting in the dilapidated temple in a miserable state, hiding from the so-called Jinglingting Death God in fear of all the grass and trees.
It's a long-awaited reunion, but it actually feels like our first meeting...
Shang Long also sat down in the haystack. After watching for a while, he raised his hand and touched her hair and cheeks.
The conclusion is: "These earrings are pretty nice..."
Then he consciously curled up in the straw pile and lay next to Suzuki Sonoko. After a rough comparison, he found that he had not grown much taller.
"That's right, how will you look like if you become an immortal?"
What do hundreds of years represent?
Naotaka Komatsu looked at the person in front of him who seemed to be fast asleep, and yawned for no reason.
That actually means nothing.
When Suzuki Sonoko fell asleep, she would naturally lean towards the side where there were people. If she heard any noise while half asleep, she would habitually burrow into the person's arms and try to bury her entire head.
Super cute!
Shanglong propped up his upper body with great interest, tilted his head to look at her eyes and eyebrows, and actually felt a strange feeling of excitement - Suzuki Sonoko could only be said to be "beautiful" when she was sleeping quietly.
Because as soon as she moves, her various characteristics will immediately cover up her appearance.
But it is not quite appropriate to say that temperament defeats face.
For her, maturity and stability do not exist. Even if she looks a little graceful, she is essentially concerned about trivial matters such as "not enough snacks", "writing is too tiring", and "I made a beautiful jar today, but why is it so ugly when it is burned".
How simple and fun.
As a result, the prime minister wrote a letter, each word of which was filled with tears, saying, "I don't know how many pearls and treasures can buy her smile."
Shang Long thought it wasn't that troublesome, if he just gave her less homework, she would be very happy.
"Just like I'm happy to see you again."
After saying this in a low voice, Prince Yan frowned slightly.
Novelty also means strangeness, and all this strangeness reminds him that there are nearly five hundred years between the two of them.
Komatsu Naotaka thought for a moment and laughed: Why bother about this? It exists, and it exists. It can't be eliminated by saying "I don't care"...
Isn’t it because of the time it takes that the so-called longing has such a suffocating weight?
After thinking about it, the man took out an exquisite gold ring from his arms and skillfully put it on the girl's ankle.
It still fits just as well as before.
Finally, there was something familiar. Naotaka Komatsu touched his chin and was quite satisfied.
But why haven't you woken up yet...
He thought of the name in the Book of Earthly Immortals that had not yet been fully revealed—
——"Is he sick?"
As the gossip that the young lady had heard said, there was indeed a doctor in the Yan Kingdom's team.
But those are doctors for ordinary people. For someone of Suzuki Sonoko's race, in this situation, it would be better for her to go to Xuanying Palace as soon as possible.
Shang Long lowered his head without any awkwardness and kissed her on the forehead. He thought to himself, look at her haggard appearance. What kind of clothes are she wearing? I wonder how much hardship she has endured, to actually end up stranded with refugees...
But it’s a good thing this way. By finding the person in charge of her area in the recent period, she can immediately get some useful information.
Shang Long realized from the beginning that this was a double room, but the resettlement area conditions were such that one person had one job. "What about the other person?"
The attendant lowered his head and whispered, "The person living with me is a man."
Shang Long subconsciously wanted to frown.
But then I thought, living is hard enough, why should I care about gender?
It is unrealistic to ask refugees to live in such a situation. I just laughed it off and said nothing.
He just picked up the garden from the straw pile and prepared to take it away.
As a result, the attendant just stood there motionless.
Shang Long had always been accustomed to being so disrespectful to the talents he had discovered and cultivated. He immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can you help lift the curtain?"
The attendant acted as if he wanted to say something but hesitated to do so.
Shang Long: "You... have something to say?"
The aide said, "Wouldn't you like to check it out? Perhaps you've got the wrong person?"
Shang Long shook the person in his arms and said with a smile: "How can I admit my mistake?"
The attendant thought to himself, of course you won't admit your mistake. She had almost brought disaster to the country and the people. But if I don't say this, won't I have no way to continue with the next sentence?
The attendant said, "But after some investigation, I found out that this young lady was..." He paused and emphasized, "She and her fiancé were captured by the village chief of this group..."
"Um?"
The attendant, whose voice ended in a low voice, shuddered subconsciously, but he thought that what he said was the truth, so he mustered up the courage to continue:
"It seems the two of them... encountered danger on their way to elope, and were forced to travel with the villagers..."
There was no need to say the rest, he felt it was too easy to associate.
What did Huoshui do before?
She was an orphan, but she attracted the young city lord at that time and made him determined to marry her.
As expected, she lived a life of luxury. But something unexpected happened in the end, and she rose to become the queen.
Now, is the same old trick being used again?
"I think that child, although he doesn't look Chinese, is from a prominent family..."
She was once again helpless, so she seduced a nobleman to elope with her. Even when he suffered a disaster and fell ill, he was still willing to stay by her side...
From his point of view, the unspoken meaning in the words could almost be considered as treasonous.
——The position that boy occupies in her heart now may be the same as your position back then.
We are all tools.
And you are not even the only tool for that woman.
So don’t make the same mistake again…
His heart was full of screaming little people, who wanted to shoot poison arrows at the woman who was sleeping soundly in Wang's arms.
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At the same time, outside the door.
The area was cordoned off, but there were still a lot of people gathered around the edge.
The old village chief stood there with a worried look on his face, and there were three or five middle-aged men with unhappy faces around him.
"What did you say?"
The old village chief curled his lips and said, "What can I say? That person asked who lived in the house, so I just answered truthfully. Now the food and drink utensils are all donated by the Yan people. How can I lie to them?"
"But this situation..."
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
The chatty young lady who was blocked behind the crowd popped her head up: "The boy said no, but I haven't asked the girl yet. Maybe she is from Yan Country, and her family is just here to look for her now?"
What she was thinking was that the girl was so seriously ill, and they were kind of saviors by carrying her all the way, so they should at least get a thank you, right?
Unexpectedly, the village chief's face turned dark and he smacked his lips.
"That boy said why they eloped?"
The old man was old, and he wasn't afraid of ordinary soldiers. He held his pipe in his mouth, and casually walked up to them, asking quietly, "Why is the area around here suddenly empty?"
The officer did not answer, but a young man standing nearby who looked like a civil servant glanced at him and said he was looking for someone.
The old man thought about asking a few more questions, also to find out whether the parents of the eloped child had come looking for him, but before he could open his mouth, the young man's face changed and he suddenly saluted respectfully.
The Qilin from Yan Country has arrived.
He is not very old, and his aura is as lively as his hair color, as if hundreds of years have left no trace on him.
The fact that a young man was arranged to accompany the king essentially meant that he was one of the king's confidants. He was no stranger to Yan Qi and immediately greeted him familiarly.
"Don't you need to accompany the Master?"
Yan Qi Liutai rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "They are just reuniting as a couple, why should I go over there?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the old man next to him turned pale.
It’s bad!
The old headman turned his head stiffly and said: The worst has happened!
It's not the family members of the eloped ones who came here—
——It’s the former brother-in-law whose bride was abducted who is here!
Oh my god, that person is from Yan Country.
Oh my god, this scene looks like it belongs to someone in a high position of power.
The old village chief, in line with the simple empathy of the working people for thousands of years, like "the Queen of the East Palace makes pancakes, the Queen of the West Palace peels green onions", thought seriously:
Would this brother-in-law, who was cheated on just before his marriage, be so angry that he ordered the things distributed to their village to be withheld because they took in and helped these two people?
What if the brother-in-law feels that this is not enough and asks the guards to move north, quietly exposing them to the area where demons attack?
He thinks it's very likely!
So when he heard the young man's voice again—even if the other party just saw him suddenly turn pale and called out worriedly, "Old Man"—he immediately shuddered and said decisively, "It has nothing to do with us!"
"We are innocent, we know nothing, we just felt sorry for them... so, we gave them a ride."
"We don't even know the girl's name!"
The last sentence is the truth, so the old man's crying voice of regret is particularly touching.
The young man yelled at him with a series of angry words, and his face was confused. At first, he couldn't hear clearly what he said. After two or three seconds, his brain started working habitually and he sorted out the logic in an instant.
so.
The young man glared at the old man: So it was you guys who went through so much trouble to bring that disaster back?
I thank you...
His expression was so ugly that it was hard to describe: I really want to thank your whole family on behalf of the people of Yan Country!
The old man was so frightened by this expression that his pipe was about to burn his hand. He looked around and found that the red-haired boy was still standing not far away in a daze.
——It is obvious that there are no “man’s family members” among this group of distinguished guests.
The old village chief was quite astute. He noticed accurately that when the kid (referring to Yan Qi, who was wearing a flowery headscarf) mentioned the word "reunion of husband and wife", his tone was not very cold.
This means that although the husband has been cheated on, he may still have feelings for his wife!
After all this random thinking, the old man immediately came to a conclusion!
"When we met, the girl was already passed out!"
He opened his mouth and turned black into white: "I have felt that the girl was like she was drugged for a long time, but the man insisted that it was not true!"
"She didn't want to do it herself. This must be a misunderstanding!"
"A few days ago, this girl woke up and wanted to go back, but then she was drugged again." He pointed at Akashi-kun, who had striking hair, from among the innocent onlookers. "It's all this guy's fault!"
Akashi Seijuro:...
Akashi Seijuro: Are you serious?
"No!"
The chatty young lady retorted anxiously, her voice loud: "Village Chief, how can you say such nonsense? Although they chose to elope, they are definitely together because of love. When she wakes up, she won't want you to distort her feelings like this -"
"Wait a moment."
It was as if someone had pressed the stop button in an instant. After a full two minutes of silence, the young man who interrupted this declaration of love finally spoke for the second time.
"elopement."
His voice was almost erratic.
Liu Tai looked at the red-haired boy and asked word by word: "You, eloped with her?"
Akashi Seijuro was just coming back to his senses from the shock he had never known, when he was confronted with such a condescending remark. He immediately raised his eyebrows:
"Why," he asked, "is it not possible?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized something was wrong: when that person entered the room just now, the subject of his words was "his queen"...
"Suzuki Sonoko, is 'his queen'?"
Yan Qi: ...
Yan Qi couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow!" "You don't know?"
Akashi: "What do I know?"
The blond Kirin rolled his eyes for the second time today and said, "You don't know anything, yet you dare to elope with her? Do you think your life is too long?"
Akashi wanted to hit someone after hearing this.
Rokuta couldn't fully understand his displeasure at being offended, and immediately rolled her eyes.
"You still don't believe it?" he said. "Shang Long has been an excellent swordsman since he was a child. Back then, chopping people was like playing. Now he's been practicing for another five hundred years. If he fishes for three days and rests for two days, it won't be a piece of cake for him to knock you over."
Akashi-kun grew up in a society ruled by law, yet faced with this feudal world, he still retained a curious spirit of inquiry. He asked, "Aren't the laws and etiquette very strict here?"
——When a king of a country picks up a brick and challenges someone, isn’t there any law to stop him?
"Of course."
Mrs. Liu replied nonchalantly, "But if we really talk about national law..."
"Do you know what the sentence is for eloping with the queen?"
Before he could give an answer, the heavy curtain in front of the thatched hut not far away was lifted again. Prince Yan, with disheveled clothes, shook off the straw crumbs all over his body and walked out holding the unconscious girl.
His appearance was not quite proper, but his demeanor was still outstanding.
Liu Tai narrowed his eyes calmly and bet based on his five hundred years of experience that his master was in a terrible mood.
"Malu, come over and take a look. What's wrong with her?"
"…Who are you calling a red deer?"
Because Shanglong's smile was not right, his tone subconsciously became a little weak.
"Don't worry about those details."
Wang pulled the girl into his arms and said, "Why can't I wake her up?"
Liu Tai hadn't come close yet. Hearing this, she shuddered subconsciously and said, "Yeah, it does feel weird..."
After saying that, he frowned and turned to ask Akashi.
"How did she become like this?"
Only then did Komatsu Naotaka turn his head as he spoke and look at Akashi-kun, who had a strong presence.
For a moment, Akashi subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to touch the outside of his right thigh.
——It’s a pity that he is not wearing school pants now, and there is no pair of scissors in that place.
So he watched helplessly as the man who was said to be the king raised the corners of his mouth at him and let out a lazy "ah".
“It’s you!”
He seemed to have just recognized that this was the boy who had been blocking the doorway in the beginning. He smiled and asked curiously, "Why did Rokuta ask him?"
Mrs. Liu said that when treating a patient, one must observe, listen, ask, and palpate: "I have to ask a few questions to know what happened to her recently!"
The moment he finished speaking, the urgent feeling of wanting to hold the scissors once again hit Akashi's heart.
——But the king was still smiling gently!
Shang Long sighed and said, "My focus isn't on why I'm asking, but who I'm asking about: why him."
The last word "he" would make the hair on the thick collar of a thin person stand up.
At this moment, Akashi was very grateful that the villagers who had confidently accused him of abducting women had long since disappeared out of fear.
But the next second, the blond boy holding the flowery headscarf turned to Akashi Seijuro as if he was enjoying the fun, and under his fixed gaze, he slowly curled his lips.
"Because," the young man raised his finger and pointed it right in front of him, "this is the woman's adulterer at this stage."
Very good, Akashi thought, I will soon find out how many years I will be sentenced for eloping with the queen.
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