Ruthless debt

The remaining three days passed quickly, so soon that Prince Che couldn't say goodbye to everyone in the palace one by one, so fast that he was still hesitating about what to take away, so fast that he couldn't wait for the plant in the garden that he shared with him. The tea tree that Zuo Qi planted together blooms.The night before his departure, he wrote a short letter at his desk by a candle. The rice paper was stained by a small drop of ink and he tore it up. So a few words wasted dozens of pages.When it was almost dawn, the letter was finally written, stuffed into the envelope and signed on it—A Qi personally signed it.

The time for the trip was set at Chenshi, and Jin'er came over early in the morning to help Prince Che wash and change clothes.She was also in the entourage, but fortunately she had no relatives at home, so there was no way to say goodbye, which saved a lot of unnecessary trouble.Today she changed into a maidservant's attire and dressed plainly, although she is no longer twenty-eight years old, she is still a beautiful and lovely person.She dedicated the best years of her life to this palace. Rao will still be a caged bird in the future. Since she has never been free, where will it be different?

"Your Highness, seeing your appearance, I'm afraid you haven't slept all night?" Jin'er asked while skillfully tying the ruby-studded clothes for him.Then he tugged at the hem of his clothes again, fiddled with it back and forth for a while, and finally let Prince Che sit down, and took out a wooden comb from the dowry.

"Yeah." He let Jin'er play around, his mind was a little confused after not sleeping all night.

Prince Che's hair is well maintained, and it was straightened and smoothed without much effort. Jin'er tied her hair in a bun for him, and said: "Jin'er also stayed up all night, thinking that she might not be able to come back, so she stayed in the courtyard I wandered around for a while. They said that the grass and trees are ruthless, but I felt that they would come to pull me when they knew I was going to leave. A skirt that was fine last night was torn into rags by the branches."

He still closed his eyes and didn't respond.

After a while, Jin'er finally dressed him up and said to him: "Your Highness, breakfast is ready, it's your favorite."

"I'm not hungry yet." He hasn't eaten properly in the past few days, and he has lost a lot of weight. Jin'er has watched him grow up since he was a child, and has never seen him like this.

"Jin'er knows that His Highness doesn't have much appetite, but this is also the last meal in the Prince's Palace, so I have to eat some anyway. Besides, it was specially sent by the empress early in the morning. Don't let her down."

Thinking of his mother, Concubine Xian, who had shed tears over the past few days, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Understood, I'll go right away."

Prince Che had had breakfast, and then he left the palace accompanied by fifty guards and twelve maidservants, and a group of people headed for the city gate at Chenshi.

After leaving the palace gate, there were crowds of spectators along the way. It seemed that the people of Luohe City almost came out in full force. They all came to see Prince Che off.It seemed that someone had expected this battle long ago, so they specially dispatched [-] imperial troops to isolate the people by the side of the road. Only then did Prince Che's send-off team move forward unhindered.

At the same time, the lord of the country had already brought all the civil and military officials to the city tower, and this place was also crowded and crowned like clouds.Prince Che jumped off his horse when he reached the gate tower, and immediately knelt down to salute.

Qianqi stepped down from Luanjia and helped him up. The father and son met each other's eyes without saying a word.Outside the city gate, the envoys and escorts from Shuo Kingdom had been waiting for a long time. Everyone knew that the time for this trip could not be delayed, and they had already sent people over to urge them many times.

Prince Che took a step back, prostrated himself on the ground, and fell to the ground with three heads.In this last obeisance, he did not raise his head, but turned his face to the tunnel and said: "I don't know when I will return from here. I hope that the father will take care of you. If you are lucky enough to come back in your lifetime, I will be happy again. To be filial."

The king murmured: "Che'er..." Qian Hai, who was supporting him by the side, felt that his arm was about to be crushed.

Prince Che got up, looked back at the Luohe City where he had lived for more than ten years, and finally walked out of the city gate under the eyes of everyone.The entourage came out in one file after another, and the flat and wide road was covered with dust, and the dust made everyone who stayed in place tearful.He walked forward step by step, and the farewell words behind him were like tear gas. He tried hard not to turn around, almost biting his lips to bleed.

Out of the city gate, the envoy of Shuo Kingdom greeted him immediately, and said to Prince Che with a big smile: "The sun is getting very bright now, Your Highness should go and sit in the carriage, if you feel bored for a while, come out and ride a horse to relax. Stretch your muscles."

The prince Che didn't look at him, and he didn't answer. The emissary was very thoughtful. He must have known that he needed a hidden place to vent his anger at this moment, so he took the initiative to let him board the car!

He said to Jin'er beside him, "Jin'er, you go up with me."

Inside the car, the two sat facing each other, and Prince Che opened the curtain to look out of the car.Not far away, the people under the city tower were still standing there, and as the team continued to move forward, the faces of those people became more and more blurred.He poked his head out again, trying to see himself more clearly, but everything was of no avail, and he could no longer tell who was who among these people.

Jin'er sat up and reached out to caress his bun. Prince Che was startled for a moment, then turned around and hugged her.Jin'er caressed his back and said softly, "Cry if you want..."

Only then was he able to fully immerse himself in his grief, and all the tears he had shed in this life were not as swift and violent as this time.Tears overflowed like a spring, and fell into Jin'er's neck drop by drop, all of which were scorching hot.She was also infected, and felt her eye sockets getting hotter and hotter. She opened her mouth to say a few words of comfort, but what came out was whimpering.

The two hugged each other like this, crying for an unknown amount of time, but felt that their throats were about to be torn apart.Jin'er gently pushed him away, took out a handkerchief to wipe her face, forced a smile, and said, "I can't cry anymore, what about you? I'm thirsty or not, I'll get some water."

He had already cried all over his face, and Jin'er's pretty face was not much better, so it seemed a little funny to laugh again now.After venting, he felt hungry and thirsty, so he said, "Get some food along the way, I'm hungry."

Jin'er jokingly said: "As ordered, Your Highness." After saying that, she opened the curtain and let the accompanying maids go to get food.

The two enjoyed the scenery outside the curtain, and soon fed themselves enough.Since entering the palace, Jin'er has never been out of the high wall, and she inevitably sighed a few words along the way, and he listened absent-mindedly to her ramblings, thinking about other things in her heart, and occasionally responded a few words.The carriage bumped all the way, knocking him out of his drowsiness.

Yawning, the prince Che said: "I'll sleep for a while first. If you are sleepy, you can sleep in this car. Now that you are out of the palace, there will be no more rules. No one will blame you."

Even in the palace, she often does not distinguish between superior and inferior in private, so there is no need for him to remind her.Jin'er smiled and said to him: "Yes, yes, my good brother."

Qu country is so vast that it would take ten days to cross the border city of Qu country——Jinyang, if one walked day and night, and it would take at least one month to reach Shuo country.Thinking that the envoy of Shuo Kingdom was not in a hurry to return home, he drove his horse unhurriedly at the front, and the hundreds of people behind him were lined up in an orderly manner, and they all walked at a normal pace.

The carriage was very spacious and the cushions were very soft. Prince Che and Jin'er each occupied one end, and they both slept with their bodies bent all the way.The two of them hadn't slept all night yesterday, and now they were naturally sleeping soundly. If the carriage hadn't stopped suddenly, they probably would have slept until nightfall.

Jin'er was the first to wake up, and when she saw the carriage stopped, she lifted the curtain to look. It was already sunset, and the sunset outside the curtain was like a fire, burning half of the sky red.He waved to the waitress at the side, and asked, "Why did you stop?"

The maid said: "It seems that someone has followed, I'm afraid they have malicious intentions, and the guards are stopping them!"

The prince Che also woke up at this time. Hearing the conversation just now, he stood up and poked his head out, saying, "Go over and see what's going on."

"Yes, Your Highness." The maid trotted away after she finished speaking.

After a while, the maid came back and gasped, "Your Highness, it's...it's Mr. Zuo Qi, here we come..."

Hearing that he trembled all over, he jumped out of the carriage in an instant, the guards hurriedly stopped him when they saw him rushing out, and said: "Your Highness, I don't know who is coming in front..."

"Get out of the way." Prince Che yelled loudly, and several guards immediately took their hands back in fright. They didn't dare to stop him, so they could only watch him leave.

When he ran to the rear, he saw dozens of guards holding spears, surrounding one man and one horse.The man was still sitting on the horse at this time, his hair was disheveled, and there was a lot of dust on his robe.The red rabbit horse under him was not much better, the horse's nostrils were covered with white foam, and it could be seen that it had been running wildly for a long time.

Zuo Qi showed his identity as soon as he came, these people not only did not report but also obstructed repeatedly, so anxious that he almost wanted to fight these people desperately.When they were in a stalemate, they suddenly heard a loud roar, and the man said: "You all back down." The guards all looked back, and seeing that it was Prince Che who came, they immediately put away their spears and backed away one after another .

"Ache..." Zuo Qi murmured, and immediately jumped off the horse, but his legs gave way as soon as his feet hit the ground, and he fell to the ground before he could stand still.