The Queen of the Prairie and I

Several female soldiers came to the big tent with several people in grassland clothes, and went in to report after confiscating their weapons.The two people looked around at the door of the big tent, only to see a sandalwood coffin on a carriage, which looked like something for a big man.The two nodded to each other, knowing the purpose of being summoned for this trip.

"The general wants to see you." The female soldier came out and said, and the two entered the big tent, and hurriedly bowed down.

And at the main seat at the end of the big tent, a person covered himself tightly with a quilt, as if he had been frozen in the cold winter of March [-]th, which made them very puzzled.

"Are you from the Guijier clan?" Feng Ronghua asked, her voice became sickly, as if she had suffered a cold.

"Yes, their father used to be an attendant with the general's family, so they joined our army as soon as the general came to the grassland." The soldier replied, but the two dared not speak.

"Is the relationship between the Entai clan and Guijier clan still useful after all?" Fengronghua finally poked her head out of the quilt and looked at the two people, "When I meet someone, what should I say, what should I say? Clear, do you need to learn more?"

"The villain knows it well." The two kowtowed repeatedly.

"Hurry up for me, don't humiliate the dead. If I hear something wrong, I'll wait to eat the stew from my family." Feng Ronghua didn't smile at all, she was so indifferent and gloomy that she seemed like a big tent. It's all getting cold.The two of them nodded their heads again and again until Feng Rong's flowery words made sense, sweating profusely.

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"Is it done?"

"Yes."

"Stop searching, go back quickly, the brigade is returning to the old camp."

Said so, the cavalry put the female straight bow back into the bow bag.The cavalry galloped away, and the sound of horseshoes became farther and farther away, leaving only corpses all over the ground beside the woods, and arrows standing on the corpses like ears of wheat.

When the sound of horseshoes was too far away to be heard, and after making sure that there was no movement other than the sound of leaves, bushes and insects, I pushed away the corpse on my body with great effort.Even my cloth was soaked in blood, but at least I survived.

The Ronghua army team carrying the coffin entered the old camp shortly after entering the old camp, and the veterans and I continued to follow, and then encountered the remnants of the Hexi army who escaped from the Lianhua City in the wilderness of the Western Regions.

Originally thought that the defeated Hexi Army could rely on each other, but they didn't expect that these people were being chased and killed by the Ronghua Army returning from the West.In the chaos, I used the method I have always survived to pull a corpse onto myself and wait for the fighting to stop.Of course, this method has also failed, that is, when the opponent will clean up the battlefield.At that time, it will become a captive and slave of the new master.But this time was much luckier than those times.

"I'm sorry, Lao Yang." The veteran who followed me was also hit by several arrows and lay there.If he hadn't chosen to follow, perhaps he wouldn't have died.But this kind of person who knows that he will die but has to do something is a samurai that everyone on the battlefield will admire.

They didn't clean up the battlefield, so I had to search for the water bottles and dry food carried by the Hexi Army.

"..."

I don't know why I feel a dull feeling, maybe because it has been so long and experienced so much, but I still return to the scene of picking up corpses on the battlefield, I think it is very boring.The coffin team did not leave as fast as the Liaodong cavalry before, which gave me time to take a good rest and continue to catch up after sorting out the existing resources.

Although it is not sure where they want to go with a coffin, but if you think about it carefully, apart from the power of Zhuonatia, only the remnant power of King Lu is left in this generation.If they are looking for King Lu, is Fengronghua trying to rebel against Zhuonatia?

I actually think that although the second brother lost a hand after the confrontation with Zhuonatia in the Battle of Wei Liao, she was not killed by her. All the remnants of the Jill clan were wiped out, but she never did that.I have always thought that it was the result of the Guigil clan and the second brother's fierce resistance, and maybe it was also the result of Jonatia turning a blind eye to Fuko and the second brother's power?

But if you think that way, Feng Ronghua's actions in Saibei are definitely not the behaviors instructed by Zhuonatia, it doesn't make sense, she is not a person who likes to get in trouble.Jonatia has always solved problems directly with real swords and guns.Whether facing Anzu and Baishan Tribe, or facing Huohu Pass and Lianhua City, her style has never changed.

This can only show one thing, that is, there is also a blind spot, a dark corner, that I don't know about in the Western Regions.What Fengronghua is planning, I always feel that it is something I can never let go of.After so long wandering on the prairie, it has been too long that I have nothing to do with myself.

He galloped away on his horse and rode away.It seems that in the distant Baishan Mountain and the nearby wasteland, only people and I are moving, and everything is still.There is no cloud in the sky, and the scorching sun in the Western Regions seems to be brighter than that in other places, and even the distant scenery is blurred.The occasional wind doesn't make me feel good, it's a dry wind that makes me feel bad.

For some reason, I feel more and more that the scenery is very exciting, as if it is a beautiful scenery on a good day.I thought for a long time on horseback before I remembered why I felt this way.

Yes, the endless Baishan Mountains, the endless wasteland and the hot and dry western breeze, the ubiquitous dust and annoying flies and insects.This is a very familiar place in my memory, and it was a turning point in my life.What I remember, what is still here today are these landscapes, but what is gone is the heat that is different from the heat, a kind of warmth.A group of female warriors, slaves staggering with their luggage on their backs, and whips that fell on them from time to time.But I never felt scary and cold, because it was the first time I was truly cared for and protected by someone, and it was also the first time I regained the feeling of being a person.

Thinking this way, but ignoring the scenery in the distance, it may be that I have not fully adapted to the life after I came out of the dungeon, and I only saw the group of soldiers and the coffin team parked there when I was close enough.That attire is neither like Hexi soldiers nor Bugude soldiers or Ronghua soldiers.I know that's not a good sign, the other party seems to be under investigation, and I'm so close, I'm sure they have noticed me too.A strange traveler who inexplicably appeared in the chaotic Western Regions.

Turning the horse's head and taking the reins, I ran away.Soon the sound of horseshoes on the ground was not just me. I turned my head and found three or four riders chasing me.They had better military horses, better riding skills, and were not so tired, so they caught up as soon as they saw it.

The arrow pierced the air, flew past, made a piercing whistling sound, fell to the ground, stuck there, and passed by in a flash.I knew that the arrow was aimed at the ground, not me, and it was a warning.If I continue galloping, maybe the next arrow will fall on my back.

As soon as I pulled the rein, I wanted to stop, but the horse stood up in shock. No matter how hard I tightened the horse's belly and stepped on the stirrups, I couldn't make myself sit firmly on the erected horse's back.With a whirl, I rolled to the ground.The ground was much harder than the prairie, and it really hurt me. The horse was still neighing, and the cavalry had already surrounded me.

I wanted to stand up, but at the moment when I fell, I couldn't even judge my posture.After turning around with difficulty, she sat down on the ground and wiped her lips only to find that her nosebleed was running down half of her face.

"Who are you, did you follow all the way here?"

The cavalryman on horseback asked.

Unexpectedly, it was a female voice.

At this moment, I raised my head and let my clear sight take a good look at everyone who hadn't had time to pay attention when I ran for my life. Only then did I realize that they were all women.

Oh my god, how could I forget, it's not supposed to be something I don't remember.Their attire and outfits look like An ethnic soldiers.There is not much difference from the memory, they are still the same people.They knew that I was stunned, but they waited patiently for my answer.

It's just that the person who first asked me was so familiar that it made me feel unreal.

"Miss?"

I asked, and I didn't even know her name.Yes, it has always been my regret that I didn't know her name all these years.

"Huh? How did you know to call me—" The elder sister looked at me with vigilance and doubts.Suddenly, as if being stabbed by a needle, she opened her eyes wide: "Is...it's you?! Li? Xiao Li?"

"It's me, it's me, the little plum you rescued!" She recognized me, which meant that I wasn't dreaming or mistaken someone, and she was the eldest sister. "It's me, I'm the slave of the Baishan Tribe!" As I said this, my vision blurred unconsciously, and the corners of my eyes became moist.

"I thought you were dead, I always thought you were dead!" she said, almost jumping off her horse.He bent down, took out a handkerchief from the armor, and wiped my nosebleed. "Great, I can touch you, you are really human!"

"I've always hoped that you're okay, you're really okay, that's great." I touched the hand she wiped for me, it was indeed a hot touch, a living hand.

"Your hand..." She also grabbed my hand, noticing the scattered scars on my hand. "You have also suffered all these years."

The eldest sister helped me up, and her soldiers and sisters led me back to the horse that I was frightened and ran away with great eyesight.

She kept whisking the dirt away for me, and looked at my nose and eyes, as if to make sure that I didn't throw anything off me.She took my hands again, looked at the scars, and touched them with heartache, as if she wanted to erase the scars.

"Where have you been all these years?" she asked. "Has a lot happened since you were caught by the cuckolds?"

"Too much." I always feel like going home, even more like home than Tanning Mansion.It's so strange, why do you feel this way when you face a mercenary you don't know for a long time in this kind of wilderness?It's really disappointing. "But I have been getting what I wanted, and I have returned home, and I have... important people."

"...Really?" Her expression was a little subtle, but the joy of reunion still overshadowed it.We got on the horse together, walked side by side and chatted.From the chase and fight just now to the present, it is also a wonderful experience.

"I just saw you look familiar from the back, so I ordered you not to kill me."

"Then I really lost my life." I smiled wryly unconsciously.I don't want to experience the pain of being shot in the back a second time.

"Look at you, riding a horse, wearing decent clothes, no longer instinctively groveling, this is a human being."

"It was you who made me 'adult' in the first place." Three or four years ago, in this wasteland beside the Baishan Mountains, I was wearing slave rags and carrying a suffocating luggage.Being beaten and scolded by everyone but not even daring to look at others, he was beaten from time to time.It was such a horrible experience in retrospect that even I can hardly imagine how I got out of that life.At that time, maybe I didn't dare to think that I could ride horses and chat with my eldest sister side by side.

"That's not me. The coming-of-age ceremony failed. Isn't the Bode Department finished? It will never succeed." She still remembers what happened at that time very clearly.I thought it was just a passing episode in her life. "But whatever, you did it yourself, and that's enough."

"Where did you go after that, sister?"

"I went to the Baishan Department, and after the Baishan Department was finished, I went to Lianhua City, and Lianhua City was also finished, so I followed the Hexi Army, and the Hexi Army was also finished-I really doubt that I will kill everything Employer." The eldest sister smiled.She didn't have the reservedness she had back then, or the distance she had to keep when facing me.Thinking about it now, it was really because of the different status at that time. Even if she didn't want to do that, her colleagues would not accept her letting a slave sit on an equal footing with them.

"But, I have to ask you a question." She suddenly became serious, "Is your name Li Ningsheng?"

"………yes"

"So you remember your own name," she said, "then why didn't you tell me then?"

"Because I was just a slave with nothing at the time...I had to keep something and protect myself." As for the eldest sister, I have nothing to hide now, so I said it directly. "But, I don't know the name of the eldest sister either."

"Oh?" She didn't seem to expect me to ask back. In her eyes, I still seemed to be the obedient slave. "Indeed, my name is An Mu. If you don't want to call me eldest sister, you can also call me An Mu."

"Forget it, just call me Eldest Sister." I said, "What is Eldest Sister going to do now, go back to Alima?"

"Why do you ask?"

"If you still help King Lu, I can only say that under the influence of Bugude, King Lu will not live long."

"I know, I don't serve King Lu now. You should know my new master, because she also knows you."

"Who?"

"Princess Sugi Sakura of the White Eagle Family."

"What??" I never thought that my eldest sister and Shan Ying would come together.But I didn't expect Shan Ying to be in the Western Regions. My last impression of her was that she went to the An people to rescue Dronatia who was captured by Wen Liangyu, but I didn't expect her to stay in the Western Regions like this.

"Why is Shan Ying here? Does she not care about the Guijier clan?" Shan Ying is the one who led the Guijier clan to rebel and escape, so it would be a bit irresponsible to ignore it like this.

"I know what you're thinking. Shan Ying is not that kind of person. It hasn't been long since she regained her freedom. Before that, she had been a concubine and was dependent on others. Not long ago, she escaped from Fengronghua before she regained her freedom."

"Fengronghua? Fengronghua almost caught Shan Ying?"

"Shanying married herself to a general from the Anzu family as a concubine in exchange for Drunatia to be rescued. She lived under the fence for two years. That idiot general from the Anzu family ran to join Fengronghua, but Fengronghua killed them at the banquet. Shan Ying escaped alone." Her tone seemed to be that she knew the Anzu general, and seemed to be her opponent. "Zonatia retaliated against her, and she was very disappointed."

"That shouldn't be what Dronatia meant." I said, "Dranatia is not that kind of person. She knew that Shanying was very worried about her when she went to find the An people."

"We'll find out, just so you can meet Sugi Ying," she said.

"Can Shan Ying afford your commission now?" Could it be possible to marry again?

"Commission? I don't want that kind of thing anymore." The elder sister smiled. "I'm not a mercenary anymore. I also have important people, people I want to protect, and a master who is loyal to me as a knight."

"Ma'am, you..."

"That's right, I am now Princess Shanying's personal knight, An Mu." She said, as if she was a little proud, but also seemed uneasy, as if she was afraid of what I would say next.But I can't say anything. The elder sister's behavior is actually abandoning her identity as an Anzu.What can I say about this?Nothing to say.

The coffin team was left behind, and we crossed the moor, and walked by a lake, along which there was a forest and rolling hills.Get close enough to see a camp in the rolling hills.It's well hidden and depends very well on the terrain.

Some people came out to greet the eldest sister, and they all noticed me, a stranger.We continued to go deep into the camp on horseback, and finally stopped in front of a relatively large yurt.

Sugi Sakura was standing there. She used to be very similar to Dronatia, but now she looks more like someone else than the Dronatia I remember.But her eyes didn't change at all, that kind of unyielding and stubborn, as well as the naked disgust for me.

"It's really a rare visitor, to come here unexpectedly." She said so, and as soon as I got off the horse, the eldest sister pulled me to salute.I'm neither a samurai nor her maid, and I'll be a blessing.

After entering the yurt, Shanying still gave me a seat and asked, "What are you here for?"

"I have been following a group of Ronghua Army until here." I said, "Then I met the eldest sister."

"There is indeed a group of people, they are members of the Guijier clan, not the Ronghua army. What you said is a bit strange." The eldest sister said, "Our Guijier soldiers all know those people."

"I did follow all the way from Fengronghua's old camp at the end of Baishan Mountain." I found that my words were not very credible and very bad, "They attacked the camp of the Guijier clan, then returned to the old camp, and came all the way here again .”

"If what you said is true, those people might be traitors," said the elder sister.

"I think you may also be a traitor." Shan Ying said suddenly, "Your words are not so credible to me."

"I'm telling the truth." Is she still angry?Really?

"I don't think Zhuonatia may know about Fengronghua's murder of the An people. Recently, the Ronghua army has taken too many actions. I always feel that something is wrong."

"This kind of important thing has become a speculation, but it is really 'credible'," she said, "You have lied to Eldest Sister, to be honest, I really hope you died during the Battle of Wei Liao. "

"You—" This is really hurtful, "Do you think the things Feng Ronghua did are like Dronatia's style? You also know your sister Han's personality, right?"

"What do you know? Sister Han is the one who killed Mr. Yisheng herself."

"Do you still think that Li Yisheng was killed by Zhuonatia? I guess you are the only one who doesn't know about it? Li Yisheng's kidnapping itself was a trap set up by herself, in order to force Zhuonatia to seize the throne..."

"What do you know? You think I don't know? Some of King Lu's servants have told me, but what remains the same is that Zhuonatia killed her by herself in the end, burned the yurt, and slaughtered the Hutan tribe. "I may indeed be a little stupid, Sugi Ying was the one who actually participated in that accident, and the harm of this incident to her cannot be offset by a sentence or two of the so-called truth.

"I'm sorry."

"Also, do you know who Li Yisheng is? Li Yisheng is your sister"

"What did you say?" My little apology was washed away, "Don't talk nonsense, I only have three brothers, but no sister." Making fun of my family is unbearable, and even I would get angry.

"So, you are the one who doesn't understand anything." She said, "Your father's name is Li Xing, right?"

"Yes." She... was indeed right.

"Li Xing has an older brother, your uncle, named Li Fu"

"I don't know that."

"Of course you don't know, that was before you were sensible. Li Fu couldn't have children, so Li Xing adopted his eldest daughter. As a result, Li Fu went to Saibei, and together with his adopted daughter, he betrayed Miss Han. That daughter was called Li Yisheng is your own sister, a sister your father never told you about."

"Impossible." I stood up, and the guards even became vigilant, "You are lying!" Li Yisheng, the person who can do such a terrible thing, such a sad person, is my own sister?I'm the only one in my family who didn't know it all these years?

"Because Li Fu's rebellion was revealed and the Li family was punished, only you and your second brother who was in the frontier army survived. Am I wrong?" She also stood up.I always thought she was angry, but she didn't, she really hated because she knew the truth. "In your heart, you know it's true."

"This isn't... No! No!" So my family was ruined, and Li Yisheng and Li Fu were also responsible for it?All of them?In the end, everything was their fault?

In my heart, I know this is the truth.This is indeed the truth.Why do everyone who knows Li Yisheng say that I look like her, why do some people always think that I have some kind of conspiracy, why our names are only one word apart, why my family members have been murdered all over the house for no reason.Because I am Li Yisheng's biological sister.I am that substitute.I never got out of that shadow, but merged with it.

"You are a liar, Sister Han is a tyrant, Li Fu is a lunatic, and Fengronghua is also a lunatic." Shan Ying said angrily, looking at me who sat back quietly, "Sister Han wants to get rid of me now, I know , you have no good people."

I have nothing to refute. In this capacity, no matter how suspicious I am, it is not too much.I am the witch and liar who continued to deceive people after Li Yisheng.

"No, not Dronatia." But that's the only thing wrong. "You don't have to trust me, at least trust your sister Han? She wants to bear everything by herself, not to hurt you."

"You don't want to—" Before she finished speaking, the guards ran in and said, "The envoy of the Guijier clan begs to see you!"

The coffin team just arrived, and they were blocked, so they should have done a long time of inspection and interrogation.But I don't have much energy to think about the next thing.My thoughts are messed up.

Shan Ying walked out of the yurt, the eldest sister looked at me, and pulled me out as well.She didn't speak anymore, and her eyes seemed to be different.I don't know, I don't know what the hell is going on, what's going on.

Outside the yurt, the coffin was placed on the ground and the lid was lifted.It was sprinkled with herbs and flower petals, as if to prevent the body from stink, and to keep it as warm as it was at the moment before death.

That's Fuko.She lay quietly in the coffin, as if she had fallen asleep, revealing her face among the flowers and plants.Sugi Ying stood there dumbfounded, her eyes wide open.

"Eldest princess, Dronatia ordered an attack on the camp and killed Miss Fuko. We want revenge. Dronatia is not worthy to be a queen. Please gather everyone and take revenge. We support you as the new queen. "

"We support you!"

The few people who came said.

Fake.lie.

This is what Fengronghua did, I only realized now that Fengronghua attacked the camp and sent Fukou's body to Shan Ying.This is all her trick.

"My...my Fukuo." Shan Ying even felt a little unsteady, she leaned against the coffin, stroking Fukuo's cheek, but she didn't get any response.She closed her eyes tightly, as if she was praying for something, but she still couldn't get any response.Her eyes became like melting ice, tears gathered there, but stubbornly refused to flow down.

It's hard to understand what kind of pain she endured.Everyone felt grief, felt grief.But at the same time, I felt fear.A powerful wind and rain seemed to be forming, Shan Ying buried her head in the coffin, and finally raised her head after touching Fuko's forehead, and took a deep breath.

She opened her eyes, and they sharpened.Her aura is like an arrow being forged and quenched, and with the steam and hissing, it becomes a sharp blade that is unparalleled in the world.

She glanced at me, then at the two Guigils who were kneeling on the ground.Gently nodding.

She understands it all, she knows it all.I know, and she understands everything.

Sugi Sakura raised her right hand and gave orders to everyone.

"Envoy Tangnu Mountain, Bai Mountain, Yin Mountain, Monan, and Liaoxi to summon all the troops that can be summoned, the Hexi Army, the Anzu Army, the Guijier Clan, everyone, and all those who rebelled against Dronatia. All the envoys and messengers only need to say a word, say 'Shanying wants to attack Zhuonatia', and the camp will immediately set off to the Bode grassland." She said calmly, and people looked at each other in blank dismay, and then immediately started to move.

"Long live the eldest princess! Long live the eldest princess!" People cheered, and immediately began to prepare to move the camp and pack their bags.

"No, no, no!" I stepped forward and grabbed Shan Ying's shoulders, "You shouldn't be like this, you clearly know that this is Fengronghua's trick!" My words seemed to have no sound, no one responded to it, Even Sugi Sakura who was facing me.Everyone has been immersed in the blood of Sugi Sakura's order.Shan Ying is a living military banner, as long as her influence is there, Fuko and the second brother can't match how much power they can gather.

"Elder sister, you also persuade Shan Ying, all this shouldn't be—"

Before I finished my words, I felt cold.

"You don't understand anything, and you don't understand me at all." Shan Ying said coldly to me, "Don't stop me, don't stop me, you don't understand me." She said, pushing me, I Just fell to the ground.

The dagger was still in her hand, and it was dyed red all over.

"Ah, cough." After falling down, he couldn't stand up, his stomach seemed to be leaking air, and the warm moisture on the cloth was also expanding, and more and more red was soaked.

"Sister..." Even her voice became hoarse.She looked at me, dumbfounded.He wanted to help me, but he looked at Shan Ying again, then turned his head and left.

"Eldest sister... why... Sugi Sakura..."

Everyone is walking.The sound of footsteps and horseshoes became more and more indistinct as my body became colder and colder.

It hurts, it hurts.so cold.

Pinching the wound made it stop bleeding, but it hurt even more.

It hurts.

very scary.

I don't want to die, I don't want to die like this.

Obviously I have a lot of worries, I have things I want to do, things I have to do, and things I have to stop.

Why is death coming at this time.

very scary.

I don't know if it's really cold, or I'm getting cold.The camp seems to be deserted.Only me curled up on the ground and the blood all over the place remained.They must have all gone.

I thought it was a warm reunion, why did it become so cold.

why.

Consciousness is fading away, it should be that death is approaching.Whether it is time or space, the abyss where all common sense will go away, the eternal sleep is coming.

It feels unreal, doesn't it?It turns out that this is death.

Like galloping a horse, like bumping, or going with the wind.It's an indescribable feeling.

bumpy?It seemed to be really bumpy, and there seemed to be the sound of horseshoes.

That's right, I'm sure I wasn't the one on the horse, I was definitely in the back, being led into the dark.

I still hugged that person's waist and followed her gallop away.Her waist is very slender, yet hard, with a leather armor-like touch, but it doesn't affect the straight and tough feeling.Like a man, but not very much like a man.The indescribable feeling made me feel deeply in my heart that maybe we are not the same kind of living beings.

No, not right.

This is not death.

This is alive.It's blurry, but I'm actually holding her behind someone else.