Feng Yu Jiu Tian vol.29 ch.8/2

Translator: churnie

“Now that the Anshen stone incident happened, Meiji was humiliated, Si Qiang was ignored, and I was put under house arrest here waiting to be sent to another country like an object, why is cousin brother safe and sound? Not only that, but the power is increasing day by day. Over the past three days, the newly sent surveillance people around me, as well as my subordinates have been transferred one by one, all are done by cousin brother, right?”

Yu Lang doesn’t consider it as disobedient, he smiles, “Cousin sister, don’t blame me, these are the Great King’s orders. Without the Great King’s approval, how dare I transfer the people around cousin sister. As for the newcomers sent over here, they were all added by the Great King because he was sympathetic to the cousin sister, he was afraid that there would be fewer people to serve her, so he deliberately added them, he didn’t intend to monitor cousin sister.”

Of course Miao Guang knows that he is shirking responsibility.

However, to say that all of this is what imperial brother meant, is probably true to some extent.

Miao Guang still can’t find the reason for Yu Lang’s unscathed the slightest, since Yu Lang refuses to answer directly, it will be useless to press him.

It is impossible to pry open Yu Lang’s mouth, who is in charge of Li Kingdom’s huge intelligence network.

After guessing, there are nothing more than two possibilities, one is that the imperial brother knows the importance of Yu Lang to Li Kingdom, and for the sake of Li Kingdom’s future, he let Yu Lang go, the other possibility…

Maybe the arrow is on the string, but it hasn’t been fired yet.

Miao Guang stops arguing and sighs, “If you want to monitor, just monitor, this is the imperial brother’s palace. What he wants to do is the right of the imperial brother. There is only one thing, I want to ask cousin brother.”

“You say.”

“In the past few days, I have requested to meet imperial brother many times, but all have been rejected. I hope that if cousin brother sees imperial brother, he can ask for a meeting on my behalf.”

Yu Lang is silent, and says after a long while, “I have also interceded for you, but depend on the Great King’s intention, I will not change my mind.”

This statement coincides with Miao Guang’s own conjecture.

Miao Guang’s heart can’t help but sink, she forces herself to smile and says, “Imperial brother’s temperament, don’t I understand? I’m not going to beg for mercy, and I don’t dare to hope that imperial brother can change his mind this time, it’s just that Xirei is so far away, once I leave I don’t know when I will see him again. I look forward to seeing him more before I leave. After all, he is my only biological brother, in the future, when I am in a foreign country and I miss my family, I will not forget his appearance.”

She looks up at Yu Lang, with a hint of pleading in her eyes.

“Tell imperial brother, he always loves me and pampers me, but this time I did the wrong thing first, and I am willing to be punished. I just want to see him and see if he is still angry and sad about what I did. Now cousin brother is favored by imperial brother and holds great power in the palace, if you are willing to intercede, imperial brother will definitely agree to see me.”

Yu Lang thinks, “If there’s a chance, I will try my best to talk to the Great King, but I can’t guarantee whether the Great King will agree. He has been in a bad mood recently, so you’d better be prepared for another disappointment.”

Miao Guang can’t help raising her eyelashes, and take a deep look at Yu Lang who is between the table.

Doubts arise in her heart.

It’s not that she has been convicted of treason, even if her wings in the palace are cut off in sevens and eights, even if she is placed under house arrest, she is still a princess waiting to be married.

Brother and sister meet, what is the big deal?

What’s more, once she marries far away, she will actually be a nail planted by Li Kingdom in Xirei. If the cousin brother in charge of the intelligence network wants to obtain first-hand information, he must deal with herself more.

The cousin brother’s wrists are more slippery than a loach’s, with such a rare opportunity, he should have been agree to lobby hard and take advantage of this opportunity to sell favors to herself.

Why… contrary to his usual gentle and generous attitude, he repeatedly hints that they can’t meet each other?

“Cousin brother,” Miao Guang asks deliberately, “Is imperial brother very busy recently?”

“Well, it’s quite busy. Fan Jia and Zhao Bei have had mob troubles recently, Zhuo Ran is suppressing everywhere, the Tuyue tribe is not peaceful, this trouble hidden within will be eradicated sooner or later, and there are some changes on the border…… ” Halfway through Yu Lang’s speaking, he sees Miao Guang’s expression as if she had seen through something, he smiles, and admits gracefully, “I’ve talked too much.”

“Indeed too much talk.”

People who have always been cautious in speaking will inadvertently talk more only when they are trying to hide something.

This kind of situation happens to Yu Lang, which is very rare.

It also proves that something very wrong is happening, or has already happened.

There is a moment of silence in the room.

It’s so quiet that the air seems to be frozen and weigh down heavily.

“Imperial brother… Is he not feeling well?” Miao Guang breaks the silence and asks with a frown.

“It’s just a minor illness, probably annoyed by the series of things that happened recently. Even a wise and brave Great King is still made of flesh and blood.” Yu Lang seems to be joking casually, but also seems to be secretly sighing, just laughing and saying with a low voice, “The Great King’s illness is a confidential matter, and he doesn’t want it to spread to shake the hearts of the people.”

Miao Guang is not an idiot, of course she doesn’t believe Yu Lang’s words.

Just imagine that even Yu Lang has to cover up carefully, how can it be just a minor illness?

Miao Guang becomes more and more worried, and speaks in a deep voice, “I’m going to see him.”

“Cousin sister…”

“Cousin brother, if you keep prevaricating, I can only,” Miao Guang says word by word, “think of the situation as more serious and worse.”

A pair of crystal clear black eyes stare at the man opposite very persistently.

Yu Lang purses his lips, and after a long time, he sighs helplessly.

Miao Guang thinks that he has decided to agree, and she is refreshed, but unexpectedly, she hears Yu Lang say, “It’s getting late, cousin sister rest well and get married well. I will take care of other things.”

After that, he stands up and turns around to leave.

“Cousin brother? Cousin brother! Don’t go! Tell me!”

Miao Guang hurriedly chases after him, but can’t keep up with Yu Lang’s wind-like footsteps, she chases all the way to the gate of the palace, but stopped by five or six guards guarding the gate.

A few newly dispatched strong and healthy women rush up behind them, urging “Her Highness Princess calm down, Her Highness Princess quell your anger”, and hurriedly carry and drag Miao Guang back to the room.

Miao Guang sees that the situation is more serious than the previous three days, now all the cronies around her have been dismissed, and the guards outside the hall are all unfamiliar faces, not only is it useless to make noise, but it will be disadvantageous to her.

She can barely sleep in the soft bed blown by the fragrant incense.

Worrying about the imperial brother’s sudden illness in her heart, she feels that Yu Lang’s attitude is indescribably strange, after an unknown amount of time, she closes her eyes in a daze, but has a nightmare, and Miao Guang is awake suddenly in fright.

Her heart is pounding violently.

Wiping her forehead, cold sweat trickle down.

But when she wants to recall what she dreamed, there is only blank, and she can’t remember it no matter what.

She knows it’s caused by anxiety, and she thinks that she won’t be able to sleep tonight, so she might as well find a book to spend the long night.

Duke Ming’s words at the banquet in Tong Kingdom’s Palace shocked everyone, and many of the words he said flowing out through various channels such as the attendants of the dignitaries of the Tong Kingdom, it’s called “The Book of Ming’s Theory”. Although she had heard the detailed reports from the spies from Li Kingdom, she still couldn’t help being curious and secretly bought a book.

Feeling restless tonight, why not find out this book and have a look?

Just as she was about to order people to light the lamp, she suddenly heard a sound from nowhere, shattering the silence, as if a person was crying unwillingly before death, it was terribly shrill.

In the moonlit night, deep in the palace, there’s a faint echo, the scream is like a gust of wind, suddenly rushing to the back of her head.

Miao Guang trembles when she hears this, her heart beating wildly because of the nightmare has just calmed down for a while, then it immediately beat even harder.

“Somebody, light up the lamp!”

Immediately, a maid comes in from outside and lit five or six lamps on the wall, the room is brightly illuminated, and she asks the princess softly what instructions she has.

“What’s the sound outside?”

“Report to the princess, this servant doesn’t know.”

Just as she was talking, there were a few more howls from a distance, but it was quiet again in a blink of an eye.

Another moment she listens again, but she can’t hear anything.

There’s a sudden dead silence, as if those sounds were just imagination, something out of thin air.

Miao Guang orders, “You go and ask, what happened? Why is it so noisy in the middle of the night?”

The maid goes to take orders, comes back in about a quarter of an hour, and reports to Miao Guang, “The guards guarding the gate outside went asked, and they said that some guards guarding the palace gate fell asleep on duty tonight, and they were discovered by Zong Shu Zhang during the night patrol, they were immediately beheaded according to the rules.”

Miao Guang frowns and says, “He can’t finish the official duties during the day, and still patrolling at night, he is even busier than imperial brother. Prepare some refreshments in the study, the princess will read tonight.”

The maid says, “Your Highness Princess, Zong Shu Zhang has orders, please Your Highness take good care of your health, in a few days…”

Miao Guang stares and says, “It’s fine that the princess can’t leave the palace gate, is she still not allowed to get out of bed?”

Seeing that she is angry, the maid thinks that Zong Shu Zhang doesn’t have instructions on the princess’s bedtime, and there is no need to confront the princess, so she silently shuts up and steps aside.

Miao Guang goes to the study to read.

In the next few days, she will still be under house arrest.

Miao Guang is always concerned about her elder brother’s illness, the more she can’t see him, the more ominous her heart will be, but when she thinks about it carefully, Imperial Brother is very shrewd, under his majesty, who will dare to do anything behind his back? The only one who dared to make trouble with Imperial Brother and was lucky enough not to be unlucky was her cousin brother Yu Lang.

But cousin brother also knew that this was a great luck, so he didn’t dare to do it again.

It was probably the Imperial Brother’s intention that she cannot meet with Imperial Brother.

Miao Guang was naturally not willing, and kept sending people to ask, saying that the princess was eager to meet the Great King.

Unexpectedly, there was no movement from King of Li’s side, and even the cousin brother Yu Lang didn’t show up again, instead, many people and things came.

People, are all kinds of carefully selected tailors, tailoring all kinds of costumes for the princess to prepare for the ceremony, and creating exquisite jewelry worthy of the princess’ wedding.

Things, are invaluable brocade curios.

The news of the princess’s marriage has spread, and every day, there are all kinds of new things brought in, except for the generous reward from King of Li, the rest are gifts, the gifts are given by distant relatives of the royal family and court ministers.

Although it’s a matter of great joy, because of the various assassination incidents that happened recently in the capital city, and other reasons that are not convenient to talk about directly, everyone acts extremely cautiously, most of them only send their subordinates to deliver gifts to Miao Guang’s Palace.

These gift givers are notified by the palace that Her Royal Highness Princess is about to get married, and it’s inconvenient to meet guests according to etiquette, the gift is delivered outside the palace gate where the princess lives, and the guards accept it, and then present it to the princess along with the list of gifts.

All of a sudden, seven or eight rooms in the palace are filled with colorful treasures, and the maids are dazzled and amazed.

Only Miao Guang feels sad.

This can only shows that even though Imperial Brother is ill, his heart has not softened in the slightest.

The more treasures you give away in marriage, the less likely you are to stay in your hometown.

As a royal princess, Miao Guang is not as naive as a folk girl.

What does it mean for the princess to marry far away?

It means that the two kingdoms will marry each other, and they will be happy and beautiful from now on, and a little prince will be born, who will inherit the throne in the future, and the princess will be able to become the queen and then the imperial mother?

How can there be such a good thing!

In fact, the marriage between the two kingdoms is often replaced at the price of blood, tears and pain of weak women.

Princess Chang Liu of Zhao Bei Kingdom married Prince Qing Li of the Tong Kingdom, but because she was young and ignorant, she had a love affair, and recklessly wrote a song “Don’t want an emperor, but want Du Feng”, Qing Li held a grudge against her which led to her being neglected and humiliated in the courtyard, the fate of being neglected and insulted, and finally died a tragic fate in foreign country.

This is just an inconspicuous stroke in the history of the countless princesses marrying away.

In terms of the closer relationship, her own imperial sister-in-law, Princess Yu Quan from Bei Qi, died suddenly at the prime of her life just because she wrongly expressed her attitude on a few trivial matters?

The outside world said that Queen of Li died of illness, but Princess Miao Guang, who lived in the Li Kingdom’s Palace and stayed by the King of Li’s side all the year round, was very aware of those heart-pounding truths.

A princess married far away is like a dewdrop falling on duckweed.

Being silently evaporated by the scorching sun, or being knocked down by the sudden turbulent waves together with the duckweed, these two kinds are most likely to belong to them.

Of course, occasionally there will be happiness and beauty like the legend.

But, it’s easier said than done.

Miao Guang waves her hand to ask someone to take down the presents on the table in front of her, and sighs faintly.

Now that she has decided to follow Imperial Brother’s decision, she stops thinking about it.

Even though she has offended Imperial Brother and received such a punishment, Imperial Brother will never allow his future husband to bully the princess of Li Kingdom too much, even for the sake of Li Kingdom’s face.

It’s just that she doesn’t know how Imperial Brother’s illness is…

After all, she is just a young girl in her prime, so she’s unavoidably uneasy on the eve of her wedding, Miao Guang thinks for a while, and then feels that she is overly suspicious, her current situation can be said to be her own fault.

Such anxiety might be one of the punishments that Imperial Brother gave her.

Perhaps if she had been punished for a few more days, Imperial Brother would summon her if he thought it was enough.

This night is still the same, after dinner, Miao Guang goes to the study to read.

She has been reading that “The Book of Ming’s Theory” again, but she doesn’t put it away, she put it on the desk, drinks a cup of hot tea, picks it up and flips through it, and sees that it said: Everyone is a life created by God’s painstaking effort, people are born equal and there is no distinction between high and low.

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Miao Guang married to Xirei’s, seeing her status of precious princess of Li Kingdom, Ruo Yan won’t married her off to lower noble man than royal family, could it be she married to Rong Tong, Xirei’s current King? Given that Rong Tong and Ruo Yan have common enemy that is Rong Tian, if Ruo Yan thought to have Rong Tong under his command, it was most likely for him to arrange Miao Guang to marry Rong Tong and Xirei would be his.