Chapter 10 The Queen
Qiandeng fell into silence, and Bai Zhaosu, who was completely unaware of the situation, looked at her expression and couldn't help feeling a little nervous. He gently tugged at her sleeve and looked at her eagerly.
Qian Deng smiled at her soothingly, raised his hand and rubbed her little head through the window: "Thank you very much, but you'd better leave quickly, so as not to be discovered. My current identity is a bit embarrassing. If I were discovered, I'm afraid it would cause you trouble..."
Bai Zhaosu certainly knew about the murder of the Northern Prince, but she pouted and said stubbornly, "Second Uncle Prince was murdered, and I'm sad too, but...but this matter definitely has nothing to do with me, because you are the Princess of the Datang County who has helped so many of us. Madam and everyone else say that you would never do anything bad!"
Her voice was small, but it was difficult to hide the determination in it.
Qiandeng never expected that in such a situation, this timid girl would firmly trust her and stand on her side.
Thinking of the complicated expression on the king's face when he decided to imprison her, Qian Deng sighed softly. As she was overwhelmed with emotions, she suddenly heard a child's shrill voice nearby.
"Disaster! You killed your mother, and now you're hanging out with the villain who killed Second Prince. We're going to tell the king and have you and this evil woman locked up here together!"
Qiandeng turned around and saw two boys, one big and one small, coming out from the corner of the wall next to him, shouting at Bai Zhaosu in Chinese with a not very fluent tone.
Bai Zhaosu's eyes shrank, he lowered his head and didn't dare to answer. He just timidly retracted his hand holding the apricot and took a step back.
Qiandeng looked at the two boys and remembered that one of them was the one who was gloating over Bai Zhaosu's fall that day. He knew that they had bullied Bai Zhaosu a lot.
She asked Bai Zhaosu: "Who are they?"
Bai Zhaosu murmured softly, "Yes... he's the son of the Third Prince."
Qian Deng never thought that she, the daughter of the King of Kucha, would be bullied by the cousins left behind by her deceased uncle. Moreover, these two children were a few years younger than her, yet they dared to call her a "disaster star"—
It's exactly the same as her who was sentenced to have no relatives and had nightmares every night.
Bai Zhaosu blushed and stammered to the two boys, "You...you don't talk nonsense. The county lady didn't kill anyone. She, she definitely wouldn't..."
The older boys sneered, "You're still speaking up for her! You're all just disasters! She killed the Second Prince and brought disaster to our Kucha. Did you know that the Tang and the Huihe are causing trouble and have even blocked the gates of our palace?"
The younger one pointed to the door and said, "Yes, it's right there, making so much noise, didn't you hear it?"
Qiandeng listened carefully and realized that there was indeed some noise coming from the direction of the palace gate, but it was not very clear because it was far away.
After a brief thought, she knew that it must be Mingjiu leading the Uighur soldiers to cause trouble, and she couldn't help feeling a little worried.
Daimao, who was standing nearby, heard this and beamed with joy. He quickly approached the window and asked, "Really? County Lady, the Crown Prince and Prince Mingjiu are here to help you. So, can we get out soon?"
"You wish! No matter who you are, the king will never let anyone who killed the Second Prince go!" The older boy snorted, stiffening his neck. "We Kucha people have integrity. We will never let the murderer of the Northern King escape because of pressure from the Tang Dynasty or the Uighurs!"
Daimao's ears turned red with anger. If she hadn't been unable to leave the house, she would have grabbed the child's ears and scolded him, "Bah, our county lady is not the murderer, stop making random accusations!"
"She took the murder weapon, and the man died next to her. Who else could it be beside her?" The older boy said, grabbing Bai Zhaosu and dragging her away rudely. "Disaster star, leave now! You are not allowed to stay with this murderer!"
Bai Zhaosu tried her best to break free, but she was so thin that she couldn't get away after he grabbed her tightly.
Seeing this, Qian Deng immediately shouted, "Let her go! She's your cousin, and she's also the only princess of Kucha. You can't treat her like this!"
The two boys didn't care at all. Instead, they laughed loudly and said, "She killed the queen, and the king ignored her! She's a disaster!"
Bai Zhaosu stopped struggling and tears fell uncontrollably.
"She's not a disaster. Her mother loved her so much she risked her own life to bring her into this world!" Qian Deng said word by word. "She's the King and Queen's biological child. Her bloodline is nobler than yours. One day, if the country is in turmoil, she will become the Queen of Kucha like my great-grandmother, leading Kucha back to glory. And how dare you insult the future Queen of Kucha?"
As if they had heard some ridiculous joke, the two children roared with laughter: "Just her? A disaster girl wants to be queen? Hahahaha, this is hilarious!"
Even Bai Zhaosu looked at Qiandeng in shock and forgot to cry.
Obviously, she herself could not imagine that someone would compare her, an ominous person who was ignored and ridiculed, with her great-grandmother who was like a goddess in the legend.
"Tall and strong men abound in the world, but was it her sturdiness and strength that helped our great-grandmother revitalize Kucha?" Qian Deng said, "Even if a woman is frail, as long as she holds on to her ideals and beliefs, who says she can't lead Kucha to a better future?"
The two young children did not understand what was said, but Bai Zhaosu stared at her intently, almost forgetting to breathe.
This was the first time in her life that someone had said something like this to her.
Even her wet nurse, the only one in the world who pitied and loved her, could only shed tears for her silently behind her back and lament her fate, but no one had ever told her that she was not worthy of pity, and that she could do what she wanted to do and become who she wanted to be, just like everyone else.
Suddenly, she felt a surge of heat in her chest and could not control herself. She threw the apricots in her hand, which were rotten from being clenched tightly, at the two boys. When they were caught off guard, she grabbed a branch on the ground and hit them on the head.
The two boys felt a burning sensation on their cheeks after being hit by her. Seeing her crazy look, they were frightened and at a loss as to what to do. After all, they were still young, so they subconsciously ran away with their heads in their hands, crying loudly.
Bai Zhaosu tightly grasped the branch in his hand, watching the person who bullied him run away crying for the first time in his life. He couldn't help but feel excited and agitated. He threw the branch away and burst into tears again.
She walked to the window, looked up at Qiandeng, and murmured to her: "Sister County Master, I... I'm not afraid of them anymore!"
Qiandeng looked at her through the window, smiled slightly, and gently comforted her, "From now on, we should not be afraid of anyone or anything. If someone bullies you again, you must fight back fiercely like you are doing now. We are all children of our great-grandmother. No one in this world dares to bully the descendants of the Queen of Kucha!"
Bai Zhaosu bit his lower lip, staring at her for a long moment, then nodded vigorously, the fear in his eyes seemingly fading. "Yes, we are descendants of the Queen of Kucha, and we are not afraid of anyone!"
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