Time passed quickly.
Three days have passed since the imperial edict came to Yanzhou and announced the princess's marriage.
When a man travels around, he doesn't have much luggage to carry. It's enough to carry enough clothes and weapons.
So Zuo Ning packed his luggage slowly the night before.
But now it was still dark, and Zuo Ning, who had woken up early, had already solemnly lit three sticks of incense in front of the image of the immortal in the main hall, and then looked at the incense head with wisps of white smoke floating out of it, and bowed solemnly three times.
Ready to leave.
Traveling far away to seek good luck is something Zuo Ning must do before every expedition. It does not mean that if there is an immortal like this, he will definitely bless himself, just for peace of mind.
Of course, this time is no exception.
In Zuo Ning's heart, there is no big difference between joining the world and going to the battlefield to kill people.
After Zuo Ning gathered all the clothes and necessities he needed to bring on the road, he hung the packed things on both sides of the horse's back, and then led his horse out of Zuo Mansion.
This horse has orange eyes and a snow-white body, but the hair on its four hooves is black and shiny. It seems like you can hear rolling thunder when breathing, but the sound of the horse's footsteps is as clear as the wind.
I glance at the flat mountains to chase the autumn wind, and the long-breathing crow's hooves catch up with the setting sun.
This poem talks about this kind of horse that is only one in a million - the sun-chasing horse.
When Zuo Ning started to learn horses, he stayed with his sun-chasing horse. It can be said that they have been close since childhood.
This horse is his mount, his pet, and his comrade who trusts him with life and death on the battlefield.
BMW is psychic, so Zuo Ning named it Lingyu.
Ling means that the horse has a spirit, and jade means that the horse's hair is like white jade.
He patted Lingyu, then jumped up and mounted the horse. Lingyu also hummed Zuo Ning in a humane manner and let out a cheerful low.
The Fangtian painted halberd passed down from his family's ancestors had naturally been passed on to him at this time. He wrapped it in black cloth and put it on his horse.
After adjusting his clothes and hanging the sword on his waist, he turned back and looked at the door of Zuofu. Through the door, he looked into the depths and watched the three sticks of incense burning slowly on the incense table on the Eight Immortals table. Almost exhausted.
After staring for a while, Zuo Ning looked at the red lacquer door again, said goodbye silently in his heart, turned around, pulled the reins, and rode away.
After Zuo Ning completely disappeared on the horizon, Zuo Tongjiang and Zuo Cheng walked out from behind the door.
"This kid must know that we are here." Zuo Tongjiang sighed as he looked at the direction in which his son disappeared.
Zuo Cheng smiled: "Absolutely. As the saying goes, Qing comes from blue and is better than blue. After this kid is released, he will definitely be more troubled than you were back then. It's a pity that you only have this last step to enter. Not going."
Zuo Tongjiang, who was already at the pinnacle of the master level, was not troubled by this matter.
Instead, he smiled and said:
"...It's okay. It's enough to fight Beiliao. Besides, I'm his father."
Zuo Cheng looked at his son, who was now a high-spirited man who had been awarded a title of general, and then looked at the young and energetic grandson who had just left in the direction where he remained silent.
At that time, Zuo Tongjiang could not be said to be prosperous in the Daqing Jianghu. He just made too many enemies and was disliked by everyone. In the end, he was hailed as the first person under the Martial Saint, until he was killed by a man named Zhou Ding. He was the first person to step into the Martial Saint Cai, so he suffered a defeat. He returned to Yanzhou, made great achievements in battle, and won the title of two-character marquis.
"You two don't have a fuel-efficient lamp. But Aning is much more stable than you were back then."
After saying that, Zuo Cheng turned around and left, leaving Zuo Tongjiang still silently looking at the direction in which Zuo Ning disappeared.
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At the gate of the city, a crisp sound of horse trampling came.
Tap tap ~ tap tap ~
The unique sound of hoofbeats made the soldiers guarding the city gate know immediately that it was the sound of the Lingyu horse owned by the crown prince Zuo Ning.
Before I saw him, I heard the sound of his horse's hooves.
Sure enough, when the guard turned his head, he saw Zuo Ning, dressed in white and riding a white horse, slowly coming towards here with his luggage.
Dressed like this, it looks like he is going on a long trip.
"Your Majesty! You are leaving in such a hurry, what are you going to do?"
When he arrived at the city gate, Zuo Ning took out the traffic order and showed it, signaling for the guard at the city gate to pull up the gate and let him leave.
After all, it was just getting dark now, and it was not yet time to open the city gate at a fixed point, and Zuo Ning was too lazy to disturb the elders and just burned incense and left.
Regardless of whether they get up or not, at least they must follow their own etiquette.
"Oh, I'm going on a long trip."
Zuo Ning looked at the iron gate that was slowly being pulled up by the soldiers and replied.
The guard laughed and pointed at Yima Pingchuan outside the crack of the door: "I thought the Crown Prince was going to have a tryst with Miss Li early in the morning..."
Zuo Ning interrupted the guard and said hehe:
"Stop joking, be careful if someone hears you and slaps you."
"What?"
Zuo Ning pointed to a small black spot not far away, turned to look at the guard, and smiled: "No, people are coming."
Before the guard could react, Zuo Ning saw that the city gate had been pulled up, then he clamped his legs on the horse's belly and galloped towards the little black spot.
"Hey!? Why are they here just now?"
As one of the guards of Yanzhou City, his martial arts skills were naturally high. After Zuo Ning reminded him, he could see clearly who the heroic woman on the horse not far away was.
The daughter of Yunzhou Mu, Li An.
Li An stretched out his snow-white neck and looked towards the city gate. He saw her dressed in red, holding the reins with one hand and holding the sword on her waist with the other. Her soft high ponytail spread out in the morning wind, looking like a world. The appearance of a heroine.
When Zuo Ning rode up to Li An, Li An sniffed and looked resentfully at this childhood sweetheart and fiancé, unable to stabilize his heroic heroine appearance for a moment.
She turned over and dismounted, then couldn't help maintaining her image any longer, jumped onto Lingyu's horse, and threw herself into Zuo Ning's arms.
She hugged Zuo Ning tightly and asked in a resentful and angry tone:
"Zuo Ning! What do you mean?! Marry the princess with me and your engagement?! You have to make it clear today who is older and younger between me and her!"
As he spoke, Li An's green-white hands came to Zuo Ning's waist, and then squeezed hard, and then twisted.
When he was attacked, Zuo Ning, who was about to say something, couldn't say anything for a while.
hiss!
Zuo Ning could only gasp in pain, and quickly hugged Li An. When she screamed, he turned over and dismounted, and put her down.
Looking at Li An's delicate eyebrows furrowed together, his little face was bulging with anger, looking unhappy.
He hugged Li An gently.
"I'm the youngest, I'm the youngest..."
Li An, on the other hand, looked aggrieved and allowed his sweetheart to hug him. Although he already knew the ins and outs and accepted the fact that someone got there first, he had to find someone to vent his anger on, right?
After a while, Li An broke away from Zuo Ning's arm, turned around, took a piece of red paper from his horse, and handed it to Zuo Ning.
"Our engagement letter..."
Zuo Ning took the marriage document from Li An and opened it. He saw that it was the marriage document between himself and Li An that had not yet been officially signed.
His first reaction was that it was an engagement letter.
Normally, on the wedding day, after the wedding ceremony, it is time to sign the marriage contract.
Daqing and even the previous dynasty have always had this process.
Although Zuo Ning didn't know what Li An meant, he soon thought of a way to appease his sweetheart.
Without a pen, Zuo Ning bit off the index finger of his right hand without hesitation, signed his name on the red paper, and then handed the marriage certificate back.
"Okay, An'an, now, you are my first wife."
Zuo Ning's eyes were full of tenderness, which made Li An's face turn red immediately.
Li An actually just wanted Zuo Ning to keep the marriage certificate and ask him when he would come back to marry her. After all, when I saw the marriage certificate and thought about the fact that Zuo Ning was taken advantage of, that was how I felt.
Tsk,
However, I never expected that he would bite his finger and sign the marriage contract with his own blood!
Why are you hesitating? She snatched the marriage certificate back, and then said angrily to Zuo Ning: "Forget it... you know the truth! I will wait... for you to come back, and then we can consummate the marriage!"
Seeing Li An's expression full of joy and surprise even though his tone was angry, Zuo Ning smiled with relief and reached out to rub her hair.
"good."
Seeing Zuo Ning be so "aware", Li An did not slap Zuo Ning's hand away. He just put away the marriage certificate and took out a box from the horse.
It is a long mahogany brocade box engraved with golden patterns.
In front of Zuo Ning, Li An carefully opened the box. Zuo Ning lowered his head and saw that inside was a very exquisite jade flute!
The jade flute is carved from a whole piece of jade. Although there are no complicated patterns on it, the one-foot-long jade flute is full of color and looks particularly elegant with a red tassel tied to it.
It was a style that Zuo Ning liked very much.
"I started making it last year. According to custom, when getting married, the bride should give the groom an engagement gift. I just wanted to make a flute for you... I don't know if you like it..."
Zuo Ning looked at Li An, who was full of expectations, and said nothing. He just gently took out the jade flute from the brocade box, put it to his mouth, and started playing.
The melodious sound of the flute came from the jade flute, and the peaceful voice dispersed into the morning breeze of spring and spread into the hearts of the two people.
The melody is gentle, accompanied by the rustling of leaves in the wind, and the chirping of birds from time to time, like the gentle sound of running water, and like the spring breeze blowing on the face.
Li An looked at the handsome young man in front of him, dressed in white, like a fairy in a painting. His eyes were slightly closed, immersed in the sound of playing the flute.
She listened quietly to the tune Zuo Ning played for her without making a single sound.
Dressed in white like snow, with the jade flute flying, she looked at Zuo Ning dreamingly, her eyes full of love.
Unconsciously, her eyes turned red.
I say goodbye to you. I wonder when I can see you again?
In the world, it seemed that there was only Zuo Ning's affectionate flute sound, lingering.
Time passed. I don’t know how long it took. Zuo Ning opened his eyes and slowly put down the jade flute.
"I like the jade flute very much."
Li An resisted crying, his nose was sore, but he just nodded, and then said with some choking:
"nice! You love it."
After putting the jade flute back into the brocade box in Li An's hand, Zuo Ning took the brocade box from her hand. Zuo Ning solemnly put the brocade box into Lingyu's suitcase.
"Okay, the flute is here, and you signed the marriage contract. Then I'm leaving."
Li An didn't want to cry in front of him, so he turned around and got on his horse to leave.
Just when she turned around, Zuo Ning grabbed her Hao Wrist, and before she could react, he pulled her into his arms, wrapped his arms around her waist, then leaned down and took her in his mouth. Ang Lee’s cherry lips.
Li An was shocked for the first time, and then he closed his beautiful eyes and responded enthusiastically to Zuo Ning's kiss.
Zuo Ning bit Li An's lips, and could feel her heart beating violently at this moment through her clothes and her bulging sac tightly wrapped in clothes.
It turns out that this is the taste of a first kiss...
After a long time, when Li An's eyes were blurred, the two of them separated. Zuo Ning's mouth was covered with the rouge that Li An had applied, while Li An's lips were slightly red and swollen from being sucked on.
"gone."
Zuo Ning hugged Li An again, looked at her already moist and misty almond eyes, and gently kissed her little face.
After thinking about it, he took off a necklace with a translucent red stone from his neck and tied it gently for Li An.
"This...isn't this...their offering that you snatched back from the important town of Beiliao that year? It's so inappropriate to give it to me..."
Li An held the necklace that was still a little warm and asked after carefully identifying it.
Zuo Ning shaved her nose: "It's the most suitable one to look good on you."
After saying that, he stepped onto Lingyu, and finally waved to Li An: "Wait until I come back."
After saying that, he mounted his horse and set foot on the road to the capital.
Li An stood, watching his back getting further and further away. His fair face was covered with his own light rouge, which matched perfectly with his small face that looked like a red cloud.
She secretly spat: "Young disciple..."
Then he smiled, held the red stone necklace Zuo Ning tied on himself with both hands, said goodbye to him silently in his heart, and then got on his horse and headed towards Yunzhou.
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