I'm the eldest princess, and my last task before he delivers his military power is to escort me to the desert and my family

I am the eldest princess, and he is an invincible general.

His last task before the handover of military power was to escort me to the desert and my relatives.

The long river is at sunset, and the twilight is slightly cool.

Hu Ren rode a horse to greet me, and the accompanying palace maid covered my red hijab and prepared to get off the sedan chair, but a pair of cool white hands reached out from under the sedan curtain and gently held my toes.

"The ground is too cold, I'm afraid that the princess will be frostbitten, so can I let Weichen carry the princess on her last ride?"

I pulled my toes away from those hands, my eyes red through the curtain, tears running down my cheeks, dripping onto the hard calluses of those hands, the marks of years of battle.

"I'm not afraid."

After finishing speaking, I opened the curtain and got out of the sedan chair, and the red embroidered shoes stepped into the cold sand, and the cold touch instantly spread all over my body.

I thought to myself, it's really cold.

But his footsteps did not stop for a moment, and he resolutely strode forward, not daring to turn back.

Because standing behind me is my sweetheart, my young general.

1

When I first met him, I was only ten years old.

The summer of that year was as hot as a fire, and the palace was moved to the summer resort, and I asked the palace maid to make a swing under the largest acacia tree.

The long rope swung around in the air, accompanied by the breeze and the nice smell of flowers, and I became more and more excited, shouting, "Higher, higher."

Under the tree, there were many palace maids and eunuchs, raising their hands, and all of them persuaded me with anxious expressions: "The princess is dangerous, you better come down."

I swung another meter higher and laughed louder: "I'm not afraid."

The tied acacia tree could no longer bear my tossing, and with a crisp click, I was thrown out of the air at a very high level.

I closed my eyes in fear, but I didn't wait for the pain I imagined.

When I opened my eyes, I met a pair of sparkling eyes, and a warm and powerful touch came from my waist, and it was he who caught me.

He asked me, "Are you a fairy?"

I snorted and laughed, jumped out of his arms, turned around and crossed my waist, and winked playfully: "I'm the eldest princess of Anyang, who are you?"

When he heard this, he immediately knelt down and saluted me.

"Wechen is from the horse farm, and his name is Yunqi."

But after saying that, he looked up at me again, and said, "It turns out that the princess is so good-looking, just like a fairy in a picture book."

The little plum behind me suddenly burst out from behind me, pointed at his nose and angrily scolded: "Bold! Dare to speak outrageously, and watch out for the head on your neck!"

But he didn't bow his head for half a minute, still looking at me.

Generally, after Xiao Lizi scolded me, most of the people lowered their heads in fright, and he was the first one who was still staring at me.

In the end, I couldn't bear such a hot gaze, blushed, panicked away from his gaze, and casually picked up the broken swing to divert attention: "Oops, the swing is broken."

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard him answer me and say, "I would like to build a swing for the princess that will not break."

These words succeeded in drawing my eyes back to him, and I saw his serious look and determined eyes, nodded and agreed.

And he really didn't tell a lie, and built a swing that wouldn't break, and that afternoon I didn't break the swing all afternoon, and he watched me next to me all afternoon.

It wasn't until the evening that the palace maid urged me to go back to the palace for dinner, and he kowtowed to me to prepare to go back to the racecourse.

I stopped him, landed on the swing and stopped in front of him and asked, "Would you like to follow me and be my guard at the lodge?"

As if he had received great grace, he immediately knelt down in front of me, and his tone was solemn and serious: "Chen Yunqi is willing to be a cow and a horse for the princess."

It was like making a promise that weighed a thousand dollars, and it was said so loudly and forcefully that it made me laugh.

I was thinking: he's such a strange person.

2

After all, I didn't wait for Shangyun Qi to be my escort, so I hurriedly returned to the palace with my father because of the urgent report at the border gate.

For four years, even if I went to the summer resort again, I never saw him again.

Until the day of the Lantern Festival, it was the second time we met.

That night, the palace gathered on the shore of Yushui Lake to spend the Lantern Festival together, I found an opportunity to call the palace maid Luzhu, and secretly left the table and slipped to the root of the city wall at night.

It's under repair, and it's missing half of the corner, which is just the right time to go out over the wall.

Luzhu was so worried that he asked me all the way, "Princess, are we really going to sneak out?" If this is discovered, it will be a great crime, and you will be beaten."

I picked up my skirt with my left hand, grabbed my cloak with my right hand, jumped, just touched the edge of the city wall, hung on the edge of the wall, and pedaled with both legs to find a fixed point, while comforting Luzhu: "Don't worry, the guards are all supported by me, if you don't say it, I won't say it, no third person will know."

The green bamboo was silent, but I didn't turn out, the two feet hung in the air and hovered for a long time, automatically wrapped together, not waiting for the green bamboo to come to help me, and sat on the cold green brick with a slip of hand.

After tossing for a long time, I was also tired, so I just lay down, breathed a long sigh of relief, and watched the exhaled breath turn into a white mist, enveloping the few stars in the night sky, shining brightly.

But out of nowhere, a human face suddenly blocked my vision, and suddenly met my eyes.

I heard Midoritake's voice whispering, "See Zuo-sama."

In the darkness, I only felt that the eyes I saw were somewhat familiar.

I thought and thought and thought and thought and thought until he helped me up, and I still didn't remember.

I was thinking about how to find an excuse not to be found out of the palace.

"The moon is quite round tonight, and I can see it more clearly when I come out."

As soon as I looked up, I searched for a long time, except for a few scattered starlight in the sky, it was black, and there was not even a shadow of the moon.

Then I heard a few laughs coming from the side, from the Zuo man.

"Qin Tian has watched the night phase, tonight the clouds cover the sky, there will be no moon, I am afraid that I will disappoint the princess."

"Grace."

I replied lightly, seeing that there was no excuse, I patted the soil on my body and prepared to go back with the green bamboo.

The Lord Zuo suddenly knelt down: "Weichen is willing to make an eternal moon for the princess, I wonder if the princess is willing?"

Making the moon? Not extinguished?

This immediately aroused my curiosity, and I nodded in agreement.

But I always feel that such a tone, such words, seems to have been heard somewhere.

3

The moon he said was to take me out of the palace and buy a round moon lamp.

The bright candle flame swayed in it, smearing a yellow light, the lights kept burning, the moon never went out, it was really a moon that would not be extinguished.

"Selling sugar gourds, big and sweet sugar gourds, no money if they are not sweet......

I heard the vendor selling sugar gourds behind me pass by, and my eyes moved from the moonlight to him, and I opened my eyes with great anticipation.

He understood what I meant, and the corners of his mouth curled in an arc, and he turned to stop the vendor, and soon walked up to me with several strings.

There are not only sugar hawthorns, but also sugar people, sugar yams, and candy seeds.

There are so many so many that I don't even know where to start.

He helped me pick out a bunch of the last of the icing, brought it to my mouth, and when I took a bite, the crispy skin creaked in my mouth.

I didn't eat a few bites, and I heard a shout in the distance: "Fried chestnuts with sugar, sell fried chestnuts with sugar......

I looked at him again.

He smiled again, leaned in and wiped the kernel off the corner of my mouth, and said in a helpless tone, "Let's go."

That night was the most lively night I've ever had since I was a child.

Without any palace rules, I can eat whatever I want, play whatever I want, and no one cares how loud I laugh.

Before returning to the palace, he bought a few more lotus lanterns and handed them to me.

"Put the lamp and make a wish, the wish will come true, and the princess will put one too."

I took the pen and wrote down every word on the paper seriously: May the country and the people be safe, and the wind and rain will be smooth.

added another line of small words: If you wish to have only one heart, the white head will not be separated.

After I finished writing, I quietly moved to his side, but he found out that my desire to peek at him was not fulfilled, and I only saw a few words: guard, cow and horse.

It's an escort and a cow and a horse, and I can't even fight it together.

The lanterns were banished on the surface of the lake, and we all closed our eyes and meditated.

I opened my eyes halfway through the reading, and the curious little Jiujiu kept spinning, looking at him, the swaying lake light crossed the bridge of his tall nose and fell on his muttering lips.

I couldn't help but ask, "Lord Zuo, what wish did you make?"

His eyelashes fluttered a little at the moment I asked, and when he opened his eyes, there was a sadness that I couldn't see clearly, and his tone was also tinged with a faint sadness.

"There was a promise I made to me, and I was waiting, until she remembered to honor it to me."

What promises?

I don't know why, as soon as he said it, I was inexplicably empty-hearted.

Until I went back to the palace to go to bed and undress, I didn't think clearly about the reason for this weakness of heart, so I could only pick up the moon lamp and turn and turn, and keep thinking about what that sentence meant.

The nagging of the green bamboo kept echoing in his ears: "You are a princess, how dangerous it is to go out alone, you can't do this in the future, if you do something, I have to take ten lives into it."

Lu Zhu paused and said, "But fortunately, it's Lord Zuo Yunqi, if someone else takes you out, I will never agree."

As soon as I heard this, the moon lamp also fell to the ground, flew to Luzhu's side, grabbed her and asked, "What did you say the name of that adult today?"

"Zuo Yunqi."

The clouds rise, the clouds rise, the clouds rise.

Midoriku's words successfully evoked memories for me.

Four years ago in the summer, the boy under the acacia tree.

He called me a fairy and made me a swing that would not break, and I promised him to be my bodyguard.

It dawned on me that I was the one he was talking about.

But it's ......

I looked at the moon lantern on the ground that was burned to ashes, and muttered to myself: I am the eldest princess, how can I pull down my face to a guard and admit that I have broken my trust first?

Behind his back, he began to secretly inquire about everything about the young man named Zuo Yunqi.

4

"There is no father and no mother at home, because of equestrian skills, he was originally assigned to the horse farm, and later he was named a guard for saving the saint on a spring hunt and brought back to the palace together."

After the green bamboo report, he looked at me puzzled: "Princess, what are you asking Lord Zuo to do?"

I made a random excuse: "I want to learn how to ride a horse."

It was originally an excuse for prevarication, but soon Luzhu brought Zuo Yunqi to me, knelt down and said to me, "Princess, Niangniang has asked for a grace from the Holy God for you, and I specially approve you to learn to ride a horse every half a day."

And Yunqi saluted me respectfully: "Weichen Zuo Yunqi will definitely live up to the expectations of the saints."

He looked at me with a whimsical gaze, full of joy.

It was difficult to ride a tiger, so I could only nod and follow Yunqi to the palace horse farm.

He walked in front and I followed behind.

Three steps apart, not far or close, but still when he stopped, he slammed into his arms.

The sound of my heartbeat was clearly audible, and I took a step back with a red face and looked up at the surroundings, only to realize that I hadn't reached the racecourse yet.

I thought he was going to take advantage of the fact that no one was asking me and promised him to be a guard, so I took the first step to speak before he opened his mouth to speak.

"I remember, your name is Yunqi, I remember, I remember, but I haven't had a chance to tell my father yet."

He spoke incoherently and stammered, but he blushed half between my words, and said, "Your ...... I just want to ask the princess what kind of horses she likes."

The embarrassment filled the air, and I pulled the corners of my mouth into a stiff smile, trying to step past him and leave, but he stood in front of me.

Kneeling on one knee, he clasped his hands into fists and saluted me: "Thanks to the princess for not giving up, the minister should be a cow and a horse for the princess all his life."

I chuckled in my heart, and the indescribable feeling haunted my heart, and I hummed lightly to get him up, and turned around unconsciously and secretly showed a smile.

I can't feel that way, but I know I'm happy.

I was always happy on that morning of horseback riding.

It's only been a morning, and I haven't even learned how to get on a horse.

When he left, he was puffed up, and said, "Wait, on the day of this princess and the concubine, I will ask my father to let you be my bodyguard, and then you will teach me to ride a horse every day, and I will definitely be able to learn it."

After saying that, I ran away, didn't dare to look at him, but the green bamboo sighed beside me; "Is it hot today, why is Lord Zuo's face so red?"

I just laughed, smiling and looking forward to the day of the ceremony.

I am the only daughter of my father, and I am the eldest princess of the middle palace, and my father will definitely agree to my request.

5

But I can't wait.

Before my time came, my father died, and the throne passed to my 10-year-old brother.

The new emperor was young, and the various forces in the court were ready to move, so in order to stabilize the throne, the queen mother promised me to Situ Mo, the son of the prime minister who had been dying in my twilight.

By divine decree, my palace is piled with all kinds of gifts.

The pearls of the South China Sea, the jade of the Western Regions, and the jade of the northern Xinjiang......

I wasn't interested in any of this until Luzhu came to report, "Princess, Lord Zuo sent a swing as your gift."

I lifted my skirt and hurried to the backyard.

Under the locust tree in the backyard, a vine full of acacia flowers was wrapped, and it was long and made into a swing.

I walked slowly and slowly.

One step, two steps, three steps......

Sit firmly on the swing.

Yunqi, he was standing next to me, pushing me down and down, higher and higher, higher and higher.

So high that I could see the crowd outside the walls.

Suddenly, he was caught by Yunqi again and stopped, he crouched down and looked at me, as serious as before: "If you don't want to, I'll take you out of here."

I shook my head for a while, as if I had really left, outside the palace, pestering Yunqi to buy me sugar gourds to eat.

But when he came back to his senses, he shook his head, lowered his head and whispered, "No."

For the sake of the stability of my brother's throne.

Yu Gong, for the sake of the stability of the court.

I have to get married.

This is also the night when the decree was made, and the queen mother hugged me and said, "As the eldest princess, you should be able to bear the royal responsibility if you enjoy the glory of the royal family."

But I really don't want to get married.

I remembered the wish I made when Yunqi took me to put the lantern that night, was my words too small for God to see.

I hugged Yunqi's arm, in the small courtyard on that side, on the swing of the acacia tree vine, wailing and crying, and told Yunqi: "Yunqi, don't be my guard, don't send me on the wedding day, please."

After a long time, he nodded, the hand holding the vine was bleeding, looked at me, and slowly knelt down: "Wait for me, I will definitely snatch you back."

6

Since that day, I have lost the news of Yunqi.

After that, I put on the red wedding dress carefully embroidered by the Weaving Bureau, took a sedan chair, and married into the Prime Minister's Mansion in a beautiful manner.

Hundreds of miles of red makeup covered the entire Chang'an Street, and the banquet was from beginning to end, celebrating three days and three nights.

Everyone said: The eldest princess is quite favored, deeply favored by Long, and married a good husband.

But I couldn't be happy when I looked at the strange but handsome face under the red candle.

yes, he's nice, but not someone I like.

After that, I transplanted the acacia tree to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and when I was free, I sat under the tree and watched the flowers bloom.

Seeing my husband-in-law, Xinna's concubine, greeted me with a greeting.

I watched the daughter born to Xinna's concubine ask me for sugar gourds.

I watched Lu Zhu bring me a bowl of soup and medicine and asked me, "Princess, the contraceptive pill hurts your body, so you have to stop?"

Without hesitation, I picked it up and drank it down.

Yunqi's words came to mind: "Wait for me, I will definitely snatch you back."

Thinking about hiding your face and crying, Yunqi, when will you come back?

I waited seven years, but before the clouds rose, my husband contracted malaria and died.

When he died, he held my hand tightly: "Anyang, don't hate me."

Then he handed me a stack of letters and left.

The letters in my hand have a few big words written on the cover: Zuo Yunqi respectfully.

I realized that Yunqi did not have no news, but went to the frontier to join the army.

looked at Situ Mo, who was out of breath, and finally didn't hate.

Actually, we're all right, we just don't love each other.

That night, I lay under a tree and read the letters.

In the letter, he described the scenery of the frontier, the food of the frontier, and the people of the frontier.

There is no mention of missing me, but the thoughts of me are reflected everywhere, and the payment of each letter is: Greet the eldest princess of Anyang.

Looking at it, I fell asleep under the acacia tree with all the letters in my arms.

In the dream, there are clouds rising, and there are acacia swings.

I sat on it, and the clouds pushed me, and I bobbed higher and higher, and saw the sunset, the roasted mutton, and the simple peasant woman of which he spoke in his letter.

In his ears, there was his voice: "Wait for me, I will definitely snatch you back."

7

He didn't break his word, and he came back when the rumors of my Kefu in Chang'an City were at their most intense.

The people on both sides greeted each other with garlands, cheering him for repelling the Hu people and returning peace to the people on the frontier.

At that time, I was standing at the gate of the imperial city, watching the oncoming clouds.

I got taller, I got darker, and I grew stronger.

Looking at it again, my eyes were red.

Tears blurred my vision as I watched him walk up to me, kneeling on the ground with a branch full of acacia flowers in his hand and handing it to me.

"Yunqi, bow to the eldest princess."

In front of everyone's eyes, I blushed, as I had seen him for the first time, smelling the flowers, red to the roots of my ears.

Overnight, the news of me and Yunqi spread throughout Chang'an City.

Everyone sighed: Zuo Yunqi, the invincible general of the god of war, fell in love with the eldest princess of Kefu.

When it reached Yunqi's ears, he sent all the rumor-mongers into the prison, and rode into the palace overnight to meet my imperial brother.

According to Lu Zhu's description, "When Lord Zuo came out of the imperial study, he was smiling so hard that he was grinning behind his ears."

Several eunuchs and palace maids gathered around me and quipped, "I'm afraid the princess is going to be a bride......

My face was red again, and I couldn't cover it with powder.

He turned around and instructed Luzhu, "Go to the weaving bureau and get me some red silk and gold thread, and good fabric."

From that day on, I started sewing my new clothes.

After embroidering the red hijab of a mandarin duck playing in the water, Luzhu suddenly came to report: "Princess, General Yunqi is waiting for you in the backyard."

I was so excited that the needle was off, and I pricked my finger and rolled out a bead of blood, which dripped onto the hem of my skirt and spread out an oval.

I grabbed the blood-stained hem of my skirt and hurried to the backyard.

Next to the swing full of acacia flowers, Yunqi was looking at me with a smile, and when he saw my pricked fingers, he put away his smile and frowned, and walked over quickly to carefully pick up my fingers and blow them around.

While blowing, he blamed me in distress: "Why are you so careless."

I pulled out my hand and grabbed his arm and pointed to the swing, "Push me."

He furrowed his brow, smiled, bent down and lifted me up on the swing, and slowly pushed me and talked to me.

"Over the years, I have been to many places, most of them are bitter cold places, I can't eat enough, I can't dress warmly, and I have endless battles every day, but I have never felt bitter, because I have enough faith to support it, and there must be people who can get it."

"I've written a lot of letters, but you haven't replied, I'm going to be scared to death, I'm afraid you'll forget me again."

"Originally, I planned to kill the Prime Minister directly as soon as I came back, and simply snatched you over, anyway, with my current status, I could do it, but as soon as I came back, I heard that Situ Mo died, and you were rumored to be an ominous person of Kefu."

At this point, he suddenly stopped the swing.

"Princess, I met with the Holy One yesterday and asked him for marriage, and he nodded and agreed, and the Holy Decree was sent down at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet the day after tomorrow."

He walked up to me, knelt on the ground, and gently held my hand.

looked at me, revealing nervousness and excitement: "I want to be a princess for the rest of my life, and the princess is willing to accept me as a guard?"

My face was red, and my eyes were red, and I replied softly, "I do."

I was willing to do it a long time ago.

8

The queen mother's birthday banquet was the day after tomorrow, and I began to work overtime to embroider the wedding dress.

I always want to be faster, faster, but it's not as fast as the courtship team from the Hu people.

They entered Chang'an City with tribute, knelt on the floor of the Qianqing Palace, and begged to marry the eldest princess of the Great Zhou.

There is only one eldest princess of Da Zhou, and that is me.

When I heard the news, I cried and ran outside the queen mother's palace and begged her to help me.

But she hugged me and just wiped her tears and cried.

I ran to my brother's bedroom again and begged him to choose another person.

From dawn to twilight, the imperial brother did not come out to see me.

Not only them, but even Yunqi, who said he was going to snatch me back, didn't come to see me.

I disguised myself as a little eunuch regardless of it, went directly to his mansion, looked at the unshaven clouds, and cried and yelled: "You obviously don't want me to go and kiss, why, why, I'm the only one fighting for it?"

He didn't say a word for a while, shook his figure to help me up, and said to me in a dumb voice, "Anyang, let's go to a place."

I followed him, and the carriage went out of the city to a village outside the city.

He lifted me out of the carriage, looked at me and said:

"This is a place for refugees who have lost their homes due to the war on the frontier, and they have nowhere to go but to temporarily resettle them outside the city."

I looked at them, all of them skinny and yellow-skinned. There are even people who fall on the muddy ground and are covered with abscesses.

Yunqi said, "He has no money, he can't afford to see a doctor, and he can only wait for death."

He took me to another place.

Everyone is either missing an arm or a short leg, or missing an ear or an eye......

"These are soldiers who have retired from the battlefield and cannot work to support themselves, so I have placed them here," he said.

At this point, I had put away my tears and sat in the carriage silently, and outside the carriage, I heard the hoarse voice of the clouds:

"If it were Situ Mo or any dignitary, I would risk this life to snatch you back, but if I can calm the war and give everyone a peaceful home, I really don't know what to do......

I heard Yunqi's whimper: "Anyang, you tell me, what should we do......

Inside the blue curtain, I shed a line of tears, and struggled to squeeze out four words from my clenched teeth: "Send me back to the palace."

On this night, I finally understood what my mother had said: "As the eldest princess, she enjoys the glory of the royal family, and she should be able to bear the royal responsibility."

This responsibility makes me only the eldest princess and not Anyang in this life.

But a but, I still couldn't hold back, the moment the carriage entered the palace.

I lifted the curtain and ran out of the carriage and shouted at the closed gate, "I don't want to marry, I don't want to marry, I don't want to marry......

I cried and shouted, "I really ...... I don't want to marry ......."

The only thing that responded to me was the bitter cold wind.