The abandoned queen is reborn: she makes the prince cry and seizes the throne!

As time goes by, the water plants become more lush.

In spring, the grass is green and the birds are singing. The snow in the north has melted and formed into small streams, flowing around the big tent on the grassland.

Wu Yanhe came back early today. After noon, the sultry sunlight fell on his spring clothes, making him feel very warm.

He had taken off his cloak, revealing only a light spring dress and a long gown with a belt tied around his waist. He looked like a handsome young man.

Gu Le watched him coming from a distance, and bowed to him when he came closer.

"Where is Yu?"

Gu Le panicked, "Yu Shi..." No one could escape Wu Yanhe's hawk-like gaze and questioning, so Gu Le said, "Yu Shi... is in the front mountain."

Wu Yanhe nodded, suddenly turned around and changed direction. Gu Le stood outside the big tent, not knowing whether to follow or stay. He stomped his feet left and right, and decided to give up.

Xue Ji was bored in the tent. The Luanzhou tribe was different from the Hui tribe. She didn't know any acquaintances here. Wu Yanhe was often away during the day, so Xue Ji just fiddled with her own things.

When Wu Yanhe arrived at the front mountain alone on horseback, Xue Ji was lying in the sun. She was very small, and if she had not been lying under the apricot trees that covered the entire mountain, Wu Yanhe probably would not have been able to find her.

Wu Yanhe casually tied the horse rope to the apricot tree and slowly walked up the hill to the place where the woman was lying.

The sunlight after noon was warm but not scorching, and it felt very warm on her body. Wu Yanhe stepped forward and cast a shadow on her, easily blocking her sunlight.

Feeling a little cold, Xueji squinted her eyes, saw the man standing between heaven and earth, and opened her arms.

Wu Yanhe sat down cross-legged, lying on his back like her under the apricot tree forest. The pink and white apricot blossoms were blooming all over the mountains, and the fragrance was so refreshing. Xueji leaned to the side and asked vaguely, "Um... why are you here?"

Wu Yanhe tilted his head to look at her, "There's nothing to do today. I thought it wasn't good for you to stay locked up in the big tent all the time, but I didn't expect you to sneak out." I should have thought of it earlier that she was not a person who could stay at peace.

The apricot blossoms swayed slightly and fell on the two of them. Xue Ji yawned, turned sideways, found a comfortable position in his arms, and fell asleep.

In just a moment, although the apricot blossom forest had not yet reached the time for bearing fruit, the fragrance had already spread ten miles away. After many people finished their housework, girls and their lovers in groups of three or four made an appointment to meet in the apricot forest.

As I got closer, I saw two horses tied to an apricot tree not far away, one dark-colored and the other a chestnut. They sometimes lowered their heads to nibble on the grass, and sometimes were being affectionate.

Perhaps someone recognized the dark horse as Wu Yanhe's mount, so they went around it in twos and threes.

It can be seen that Khan and Yu were also among them, so it would be bad to disturb them.

The sun was setting gradually. Wu Yanhe woke up and moved his body. His chest felt heavy. A thin cloak was covering them. Wu Yanhe turned his hand and lifted a corner of it, and saw Xue Ji sleeping soundly on top of him.

"Xueji, wake up..."

His arms felt a little numb, so Wu Yanhe held her sideways in his arms. If he let her sleep like this, the grass would get wet and her clothes would get dirty.

The dark black horse neighed loudly. Wu Yanhe held the reins with one hand and placed the other hand across her waist, then rode away on the horse.

The chestnut horse looked at them in confusion as they gradually went away. Suddenly, it felt that the grass in its mouth no longer smelled good. It stared blankly for a while until their figures completely disappeared.

Wu Yanhe carried Xue Ji to the big tent. Gu Le did not dare to look up and hurriedly stepped out to wait. Xue Ji slept for most of the day and finally woke up when it was time for dinner.

Gu Le looked at the mute slave leading a red horse over and asked, "Did the Khan go to the front mountain just now?" After saying that, he felt that his question was stupid, because the Khan had just brought Yu back. The mute slave nodded.

Wu Yanhe opened the tent curtain and saw someone sitting on the bed. He asked, "Are you awake?"

"How long have I slept?" Xue Ji touched the back of her head, feeling half asleep. Wu Yanhe put the ginseng soup on the table and took a cold and wet towel to wipe her face.

"I slept for a long time. The sun is nice today, but it gets colder as it sets." After washing his hands and face, Xue Ji got up and stretched.

There was no one serving in the tent. The curtain of the window was slightly drawn up, letting in a faint moonlight from outside. The two of them always got along very well.

Candles were hanging, and from time to time the sound of patrolling guards could be heard outside. A group of people walked by in a low voice without making any sense of their presence.

After dinner, Xue Ji suddenly became energetic again. He looked at the bamboo strips in his hands in the candlelight and moonlight. His ten fingers seemed to be disobedient to his commands, and the bamboo strips were inserted and bounced back and forth.

Very upset.

Wu Yanhe was reading a booklet, occasionally writing and drawing on the side with a pen. Xue Ji couldn't handle the bamboo strips in his hand well, so he ran over, bent over the table, and held the ink stick in one hand to grind ink for him.

"What's the matter?"

He seemed to know what she was thinking, so he took his eyes off the book and fixed his gaze on her, not seeming to be angry that she disturbed him.

Xue Ji chuckled, put down the ink stick and took her own bamboo strips, saying, "Today grandma taught me how to make lanterns. She taught me three times, but I just couldn't learn it. I didn't dare to ask again, for fear that grandma would say I was stupid..." She pouted, as if she was very aggrieved.

Wu Yanhe put down the book in his hand and took the bamboo strips from her. The grandma that Xueji mentioned was his wet nurse when he was young.

He had been born on the grassland. When his biological mother died, he was still a baby who had not been weaned. The Khan then found a wet nurse who had just given birth in the tribe to feed him. Over the years, Wu Yanhe had always regarded her as half his relative.

When he was young, he had seen his nanny imitate the people of Dali and make lanterns and sell them at the border. This way, he could supplement the family income while learning a skill.

The bamboo lantern is a very flashy and impractical gadget, so only people from the Dali period know how to make it. In the entire grassland, few people know how to make the small lanterns of the Dali Dynasty.

Perhaps the nanny taught her this skill because she was afraid that she would be bored.

Wu Yanhe chuckled, "No..." Seeing her look up with a questioning look on her face, he added, "Grandma won't think you're stupid."

Her ten fingers were long and slender, with distinct joints. Her fingertips were carelessly pinching the bamboo strips, and the bamboo strips that had been jumping around in her hands before suddenly became obedient and motionless. Xue Ji was very contemptuous in her heart, thinking that this little bamboo strip would actually look down on others!

"What are you trying to make up?" He turned sideways and looked at me. His whole body was unnaturally gentle. If others saw it, they would not believe it.