Xingwu three years.
Dunlin Dynasty.
On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, there was light snow.
In Xianlin County, on the bank of the river.
In the middle of the night, dozens of miles away from Kyoto, there was a small boat. It was shaped like a fishing boat, and its interior was more luxurious and comfortable than usual fishing boats. It looked like a family member going out for a wandering life.
A few words in one sentence: "Looking at this boat, this group of people must be rich!"
The boat moved slowly from west to east, along the river towards the capital of Hanzhong.
In the early morning on the river, bursts of mist appeared in the river, hanging between the sky and the earth like gray gauze, and snowflakes scattered silently around the world without a trace.
This kind of scene makes people feel like a blind man in it, it's chaos, they can't see clearly what is waiting for them ahead, full of mystery and uneasiness!
There were several lights hanging inside and outside the canopy of the small boat. Looking from the river, the boat flickered in the mist, looking very lonely.
It has the charm of "lonely shadow on the cold river, waning moon hanging in the sky".
At this time, there was light snow falling in the sky, and there was no bright moon.
"Hoo ho!"
"Ha ha!"
"The evil wind here in the capital is so strong, it's like a knife being struck, with bursts of cold air. It won't stop until it stabs someone to death!"
A young man was sitting in the canopy of the boat, putting his hand to his mouth, breathing in the heat, and rubbing his frozen face from time to time. He looked tired and muttered some dissatisfaction.
It seems that along the way he complained a lot about the thief God and made him suffer.
There were three people on the boat, a young man and a woman in red sitting on both sides of the boat canopy.
Young man lives a handsome life! Perhaps because of his young age, he has not grown in bloom, so he is a little less handsome and adds a touch of beauty!
The woman in red ignored the young man's complaint and took out a huozhe from her sleeve. She stretched out to the stove where the charcoal had been placed in front of her. She held the huozhuo in one hand and pressed it into the charcoal. Strands of blue hair.
The woman leaned slightly, lowered her head, opened her mouth, and blew air into the stove calmly!
I saw her with red lips and white teeth, a peach-shaped face, green mane and red eyebrows, she was really beautiful and fragrant!
The woman in red was very tall, sitting opposite the young man, and seemed to be a full head taller than the young man.
She is so beautiful, neither demon nor charming, she looks more like a female Bodhisattva.
If a man saw this situation, he would have to say sincerely: "Tall and mighty!"
But at this time, another person in the boat canopy was closing his eyes to rest.
Soon, the temperature in the boat tent slowly rose. There was a small stove on the river bank on a winter night, which was better than anything else to warm the body!
The young man's slightly frowned brow slowly unfurled. He opened his eyes, looked at the woman and asked softly: "Aunt Qiao, is that person outside your old friend from the world?"
"Old friend? What old friend? The world is so big, how can we meet an old friend easily? Just don't be enemies."
"Yo!"
The woman in red, whom the boy called "Qiao Aunt", teased and continued to say with a smile:
"Master, what do you think of the little girl outside?"
Aunt Qiao deliberately raised her voice a bit, and in the boat canopy where there was only the slightest sound of water flowing, it was like thunder, startling the young man.
The boy changed his lazy sitting posture, hunched over his body and looked nervous. He raised a finger to his mouth and said to the woman: "Shh! Shh! Shh!"
"Sir, why are you shushing?"
"Aunt Qiao, can you please lower your voice?" the young man said helplessly.
"Oh, okay!" Aunt Qiao smiled indifferently.
Aunt Qiao glanced at the young man. She crossed her body, fell behind her and lay half on the other side of the boat canopy. There was a thick bundle under her head, and her head was propped up very high. Her clothes were as big as the young man's. Red tights.
The boy and young woman in the canopy of the boat are Li Junchen, the second son of Li Qing, the king of the Western Region of the Dunlin Dynasty, and Qiaoyi, Li Junchen's personal maid, although Qiaoyi does not look like a serious servant.
But they are indeed a master-servant relationship!
The West Border is located at the westernmost end of the Dunlin Dynasty, thousands of miles away from the capital Hanzhong City. Why is Li Junchen on the bank of the Xianlin County River at this time? It is the first time in his life that he has stepped out of the West Border.
This started more than a month ago.
That morning, as usual, Li Junchen was squatting in his "little courtyard", holding a broken peach branch in his hand, flicking the ants under his feet in boredom, and grumbling: "The huge palace. , there are thousands of slaves, there are more than a hundred courtyards, and there is no one who knows him well."
"Pity! What a shame!"
The father traveled thousands of miles, traveled to the court, and took the eldest sister away.
The eldest brother had moved out of the palace a few years ago and was stationed in the military camp to train soldiers. During the New Year and holidays, he would ride a fierce horse to come and go.
At that time, Aunt Qiao was still in the same posture as she is now, lying on a wicker chair under the eaves, closing her eyes and meditating.
Until Li Junchen squatted until his legs and feet were numb, and several ants had been stabbed to death. He was about to stand up and imitate Aunt Qiao.
Most of his usual life is so leisurely and boring.
Just as he was about to start his own life in prison again, a group of black shadows rushed over from far and near, and knelt down in front of Zai Li Junchen, startling him and causing him to sit back on the ground. .
Li Junchen sat on the seat in the canopy, lifted the windshield curtain with one hand, and turned his head to look at the ferryman outside the canopy.
He saw a young girl standing at the stern of the boat. She looked about the same age as him, with a bamboo hat on her head. Because there was no gauze on the bamboo hat, Li Junchen could see the girl's appearance clearly.
Even though Li Junchen was used to seeing all kinds of beautiful women in the palace, he couldn't help but say in his heart when he looked at the girl: "This woman is so wonderful."
The girl held a long and thin bamboo pole in her hands, placed across her chest, and the bamboo poles at both ends slid into the water on the side of the boat one after the other.
There was no exertion, but the boat's speed was not slow at all.
This is very unusual!
Very weird too!
Her hair was not tied up in a hat, but her long black hair was allowed to fall loosely over her shoulders, except that the ends of her hair were tied up with a piece of red silk.
It gives the impression that Yingwu has a touch of girlish playfulness.
Li Junchen temporarily withdrew his gaze from the girl.
The curtains on the boat awning once again blocked the cold wind outside the boat.
He leaned back on the board of the boat, squinted his eyes and murmured: "He is steering the boat late at night. The boatman is so young and his appearance is different from ordinary people. It is difficult to say whether he is a good family or not."
"Sir, there have been a lot of good-looking little girls along the way, but I haven't seen you paying attention. Why do you care about this when you get to the capital?" Aunt Qiao closed her coat with her hands and pressed it under her body.
The waves were rough and the wind was blowing around her waist, which made her feel a little uncomfortable!
Along the way, except for nagging a few words about the cold weather, my son was careless at other times. Why did he start to worry when he saw that he was approaching the capital!
"From the moment I got on the boat, I always felt uneasy."
Li Junchen pursed his lips and continued: "I always feel like something bad is going to happen."
"This is the first time for the young master to go to the Western Region. Maybe he is acclimatized!"
"Aunt Qiao, tell me why dad asked me to come to Beijing in such a hurry."
"I know the soldier who delivered the message. He is a bodyguard in my father's army and his martial arts are extraordinary."
Li Junchen's tone was a little low!
He sighed: "The Western Region is thousands of miles away from the capital, and it only took him three days."
Travel a thousand miles by day and eight hundred miles by night.
The horses can be changed, but the people cannot be changed!
It can be guessed that if the soldier who delivered the message had not been skilled in martial arts and had good health, he would have died of exhaustion on the horse if he had traveled this way.
He saw the big hole in his butt, it was real! The fabrics in other places are very new.
It seems that it is not just as simple as changing horses!
"Sir, are you worried that something unexpected happened in the capital?" Aunt Qiao lay still, closing her eyes and echoing Li Junchen's topic.
"Dun Lincai founded the country three years ago. Your Majesty is still in his prime. There will be no changes in the capital. It is even less likely that something will happen to my father now! What's more, there is still a big enemy like Akhara. I don't know how many years this battle will take. It’s not the time when the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead, and the lackeys are cooked.”
Li Junchen patted his face with his hand to wake himself up a little, and continued:
"Otherwise, the letter from the personal guard will be sent to my eldest brother's army instead of appearing in my hands."
Li Junchen is the second son of the royal family who does nothing all day long.
His father was named King of Dunlin with a different surname for his strong military exploits.
In charge of the three counties in the western boundary, the power is overwhelming!
But he is not the only king with a different surname who is in charge of the army, there are two others!
If the sky falls, it will be smashed first. The taller brother has nothing to do with me!
"Master, what are you worried about?" Aunt Qiao said with a smile on her face, a bit perfunctory, and there was no trace of worry on her face.
If an outsider were here, they would feel that Aunt Qiao doesn't look like a maid at all!
Her young master is bored, and there is no trace of anxiety on her face. She is a completely uninvolved person.
His face said: "Master, what's bothering you? Just tell me, I'll just listen! If you want me to come up with some ideas, I don't have the brains!"
Li Junchen looked at the woman sitting opposite him. She had her eyes closed. He couldn't see what Aunt Qiao was thinking.
He didn't know when Aunt Qiao entered the palace, but he only knew that she had been by his side since he could remember, and as long as she appeared in the palace, she would stay by his side and never leave her.
But my father did not treat Aunt Qiao like other slaves in the palace, but was very polite to her.
What's more, after traveling thousands of miles, Dad only asked himself to take Aunt Qiao with him and did not arrange for other guards to follow him to the capital. Obviously, he believed that Aunt Qiao had the ability to protect his safety.
All the information here shows that Aunt Qiao is not simple.
Even a fool can see it, and there is no reason why a shrewd man like Li Junchen doesn't know.
