Chapter 59
After walking for several days, Nie Wuhen finally reached the border of the Great Yan Kingdom - Handu Pass, and his heart finally relaxed. Bai Yi stayed in the palace to prevent the news from leaking out, while Nie Wuhen went to see Marquis Wu'an of Liang State in the name of escorting the princess to marry.
The guards who were guarding the city came to greet them. There were only two of them. They were dressed very simply and shabbily. They even saluted lazily, not taking anyone seriously at all. They just said, "Greetings to the princess and the young marquis. The general is defending the city against the enemy. I cannot meet the princess and the marquis in time. Please forgive me."
"presumptuous!"
The two were stunned.
"I am the Grand Marshal Sima appointed by His Majesty, in charge of the three armies," Nie Wuhen sat on the horse, looking down at those people, and said in a cold voice, "If you call me the wrong name again next time, I will kill you without mercy."
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of the people around him changed slightly. Before the leading guard could say anything, he saw a man walking towards him from a distance. He was wearing a feather fan and a scarf, smiling. He seemed to be a strategist.
He said: "I am sorry for not welcoming you, Marshal. The general has been at the border for many years and usually gets along well with these guards. I let them lose their manners in front of the Marshal. They should be punished, they should be punished."
The counselor said he wanted to punish him, but he didn't really mean to punish him. Instead, he pretended to rebuke him and said, "Go quickly, don't offend the marshal and make him unhappy."
"Why are you leaving?" The curtain of the sedan chair was opened, and Princess Anping pulled off her veil and walked down directly. Her lips were bright red, and her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be smiling, but her words were very cold. "Who do you think you are? How dare you give orders in front of this princess?"
The counselor's face changed slightly, and then he said: "Your Highness, I dare not... But since Your Highness is here to marry, how can I show up in public?"
But the fan in the princess's hand was just like an ordinary fan, without any value. Anping waved his hand casually and said, "You dare to interfere with me. You are really brave. If you don't know, you would think you are my father."
The counselor was sweating profusely after hearing these words and immediately knelt down: "Your Highness, I have no second thoughts about the Great Yan Kingdom..."
"Is that so?" Princess Anping said, "Then I will take your life as a token of my sincerity. How about that?"
The counselor was terrified.
Nie Wuhen cooperated with her appropriately: "I think the princess is right. Come on, drag her away."
The guards behind him were about to drag the man away, but by chance, the general who was supposed to be defending the city against the enemy appeared.
He first stopped her, then apologized, and finally said that a banquet was prepared and asked the princess to take a seat.
Nie Wuhen stood aside without saying a word, just watching the general guarding the city perform.
Princess Anping raised her eyebrows. She didn't sit in the sedan chair anymore. Instead, she walked up to Cassel and looked at him with her head tilted.
Cassel didn't understand. He had just learned to ride a horse, but he didn't dare to ride too fast. He just sat on it and let someone lead him. When he saw the princess looking at him, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly and asked, "Do you want to get on?"
"certainly."
Nie Wuhen's face changed, and before he could come to his senses, he saw Princess Anping climb onto the horse, holding the reins, and the two of them quickly galloped towards the city.
Nie Wuhen was about to chase him on his horse, but the general guarding the city stopped him and said flatteringly, "Marshal, please."
Princess Anping was smiling and talking happily. She took Cassel on horseback and went straight through the city. When they reached the downtown area, she stopped and dismounted.
Cassel was terrified, he quickly dismounted and looked back at Princess Anping. Princess Anping looked at him and raised her eyebrows slightly: "This is my first time riding a horse like this."
"I guess so." Cassel thought for a moment and then said, "You are a little princess. It's not good for you to come out alone."
"Why do you think it's bad that women are born to be trapped indoors?"
Cassel shook his head and said no. He explained: "But there are a lot of bad guys, and if you beat them up, you'll dirty your hands."
Princess Anping burst out laughing. She led the horse, rubbed its head with her hand, and said casually: "I heard that you cursed the prince and the queen in the palace, and made them so angry that they vomited blood and said they wanted to kill you. Ah, I didn't expect you to be so brave."
Cassel could tell that Princess Anping was testing him, but he had nothing to hide, so he replied, "Your Highness is also very capable."
"How did you know that?"
Cassel's lips curved up, he leaned over and touched the horse's nose, smiled at Princess Anping, and said crisply: "Nie Wuhen will not cooperate with anyone casually. Since you can cooperate with him, it means you have unknown abilities."
Just now, Nie Wuhen was obviously speaking in cooperation with Princess Anping. As Nie Wuhen's bedside companion, Cassel naturally knew something about it because he had seen and heard it.
Princess Anping stopped and looked back at Cassel, her eyebrows curved as she slowly said, "Nie Wuhen... who is he?"
Cassel: “…”
He wanted to slap himself twice. Wasn't Nie Wuhen using Zhao Ying's identity? How could he casually say Nie Wuhen's name? For a moment, cold sweat covered Cassel's back.
Cassel looked at Princess Anping in front of him, tried to force a smile, and said, "I was just joking..."
"Can gods lie?" Princess Anping also laughed. She rubbed the horse's ears and stood face to face with Cassel, looking at him, saying word by word, "Cassel..."
Cassel instantly became alert. He held the reins and stared at Princess Anping in front of him.
God...
This Princess Anping is not simple at all. She knew everything that happened in the palace, and it seemed that she had someone in the palace for a long time. Cassel thought of the scene in which Princess Anping angrily rebuked the Crown Prince, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
"Don't be afraid of me," Princess Anping said with a smile. She changed her address and called herself "I" directly. She continued to rub the horse's mane and said, "I won't hurt you... Your little wing was injured, and it was the young marquis who asked me to get the medicine to heal your injury."
The vigilance in Cassel's eyes did not disappear. He didn't say anything, fearing that the princess would say something again, causing him to let down his guard and blurt out everything without any precautions.
There was a man selling candied haws passing by, and Princess Anping took off her hairpin, exchanged a few strings of candied haws with the old man, handed them to Cassel, and said, "Try it. It's not as scary here as in the capital, where people even eat human flesh."
Cassel pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, took it, and whispered thank you.
Princess Anping was happy.
"You, God, are really naive. Did the queen give you some candied haws and then you helped them maintain the dilapidated Great Yan Kingdom?"
"I won't," Cassel shook his head and said firmly, "Nie... don't talk nonsense. This country is rotten from the inside out! God won't save him, and neither will the devil."
Princess Anping looked at him with a smile on her face. The more she looked at him, the more handsome and interesting he seemed to her. Raising her eyebrows slightly, she looked at Cassel and said, "To be honest, that young marquis is so cold, what's so good about him? Why not follow me?"
"If you call me sister, I will ensure that you are the most powerful among all the people in Liang Country."
When Nie Wuhen found Cassel, Cassel was sitting in the tavern, biting a candied haws while listening to Princess Anping telling a story in front of him.
"A scholar passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar. He abandoned his wife and married the princess instead. What do you think the princess would do after she knew about this?"
"I've seen this," Cassel said as he swallowed the candied haws. "It's in the storybook. It says the princess will forgive the scholar, and the two of them will work together to frame the scholar's wife."
Princess Anping smiled and asked, "Do you think the book is good?"
"Not good." Cassel shook his head, his tone choking with anger, "I don't like this ending. I think this princess is really confused. She can actually marry a man like this. She should ask the emperor to order the scholar to be dismissed from his position as the top scholar!"
"Too light," Princess Anping smiled slightly, "If it were me, I would kill that scholar and his entire clan."
Cassel was confused: "What does Jiuzu Jiuzu mean?"
But before anyone could answer, Nie Wuhen came over and said in an unmistakable voice: "Let's go."
Cassel turned around and looked at Nie Wuhen. He wiped the corner of his mouth, looked at the sticks on the table, felt a little embarrassed, and was about to hand the night pearl to Princess Anping. Princess Anping tapped the table with her fingertips and refused with a smile.
"Marshal," Princess Anping looked at Nie Wuhen and smiled calmly, "Don't forget our agreement."
In the evening, the generals defending the city hold a banquet. At that time, both Liang and Beiyuan would send people over, firstly to see the appearance of the princess to be married off, and secondly to sign a contract to decide how much compensation Dayan would have to pay and how much land it would cede.
The house is luxurious and spacious. The pearl curtain is half rolled up, and the table is made of priceless sandalwood. The maids coming and going were carrying food, placing plates one after another on the ground.
The flute sounds and the dance begins. The dancer, dressed in a light gauze, danced gracefully in the middle. When the dance was over, she smiled, half covered her face, walked up to the distinguished guests, and poured wine to toast them.
The general on the main seat smiled and said, "Beiyuan of Liang State and Dayan are all one family. As a family, we should live in harmony. Come on, let's drink and celebrate!"
Nie Wuhen sat on the soft blanket and didn't move. Cassel sat with him. When a girl came over to toast him, he shook his head to refuse and reminded her, "Go get dressed quickly. Otherwise, you'll be cold."
The girl: “…”
None of the guests raised their glasses to celebrate, and the atmosphere froze at that moment. No one dared to speak, even the girl who was toasting stopped talking and huddled aside trembling with fear.
The general on the main seat smiled awkwardly: "By the way. Since it is a marriage alliance, the envoys of the two countries may have never seen the princess! This princess is truly a beauty, and will surely satisfy your king! Hahaha, come on, please invite the princess up!"
Before he finished speaking, screams were heard outside. Everyone was startled and stood up quickly. The next second, two guards came up dragging a beggar-like person.
The beggar shouted and crawled around, saying that he was the emperor of the Great Yan Kingdom and that he would kill them.
Everyone was shocked.
"Father, who are you going to kill?"
A man walked in from the door. He was wearing a blood-red robe with a long trailing hem. On the robe was a five-clawed golden dragon embroidered with gold thread. Princess Anping smiled gently, walked in dignifiedly, glanced at the trembling emperor, and asked him again:
"Why aren't you talking, huh?"
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