First Lady of the Crown Prince

 Chapter 977 Her Rush (Xinyang VS Xiao Jifan)

Even though Princess Xinyang is a mother, she is not as experienced as Gu Jiao in terms of relationships. Anyway, Gu Jiao and Xiao Heng have been in the same boat through thick and thin for four or five years, facing each other day and night, and rubbing shoulders with each other.

 She is almost blank in this area.

  She could not fall in love with any man before, so she did not understand what the relationship between a man and a woman felt like.

Xiao Ji looked at her tense body through the dark night: "Qin Fengwan, are you not sick again?"

"I..." Princess Xinyang covered her thumping heart. She felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat. The closer he got to her and the more he talked to her, the more she felt like this.

Is this an illness?

 Why does it seem to be more serious than before?

 My heart is burning with panic.

Xiao Ji's eyes dimmed, he let go of his arm around her, and slightly distanced himself from her.

Princess Xinyang subconsciously said: "Don't—"

touch me!

 Go away!

What she would say to him almost every time he approached her flashed through Xiao Ji's mind, and the last fingertips on her waist were retracted.

 The body's passion for blood (anti-harmony) seemed to calm down little by little, and the whole person returned to the loneliness and coldness before the war.

Princess Xinyang felt his active avoidance, just as he did the same thing after she put a dagger against his chest on their wedding night and said those hurtful words to him.

 Did he just think she wanted him to go away?

no.

She took a deep breath and decided to finish what she just said: "Don't..."

 “Master Hou!”

Suddenly the voice of a guard sounded outside the camp.

Xiao Ji's eyes flashed and he sat up. He lifted the quilt very lightly and quickly, barely letting the cold wind in.

He seemed to have pressed the quilt down casually, closing the gap between her and the quilt.

He walked out of the tent in thin clothes and whispered: "What's wrong?"

“An urgent report came from the front line. The situation has changed. The Dongyi people...”

When Princess Xinyang heard this, probably because of Xiao Ji's instruction, the guard deliberately lowered the volume so that she could no longer hear clearly.

 After a moment, Xiao Ji turned around and returned to the tent, and began to dress and tie his hair.

Princess Xinyang felt nervous, stood up and asked him: "Is there going to be a war?"

"Go to the front line." Xiao Ji tightened his belt, picked up the armor on the shelf and put it on. His movements were neat and crisp, and every sound was filled with heroic murderous intent.

 He always looked like a suave and powerful man in front of her. This was the first time she watched him go on an expedition.

 What should you do as a wife?

 Put on armor for him, or see him off?

Princess Xinyang looked at the gleaming armor on the shelf and moved her fingertips.

 He turned around.

 She retracted her hand into the quilt and said, "You hold the lamp."

Xiao Ji took the cold helmet and put it on: "You can see it."

There was the sound of cavalry regrouping outside the camp, and it could be heard that the situation was very urgent.

Xiao Ji was dressed neatly, grabbed the long sword on the shelf, and said to Princess Xinyang: "I'll call Yu Jin over. If you don't have anything to do, don't leave the military camp."

 After saying this, he quickly left the tent.

 Princess Xinyang told him to take care of himself and other words already welling up in his throat, but he couldn't say a single word.

The tent cloth was blown by the cold wind, and the heat in the quilt subsided sharply as he left. The whole tent was as cold as an ice cellar in an instant.

"Set off!"

His fierce and majestic voice echoed in the cold wind, and five hundred cavalry braved the wind and snow and rushed to Donglin Pass, the last line of defense on the eastern border of Zhao Kingdom, as if they were dead.

"Princess!"

Yu Jin opened the curtain and entered the tent. She first took out the fire stick from her arms and lit the oil lamp on the table.

Then she came to the bedside and looked at Princess Xinyang who was staring at the door in a daze. She supported her to lie down distressedly: "Don't catch a cold."

 “He’s gone.” Princess Xinyang said in a daze.

Yujin took off her cloak. She had only walked a few steps when she was covered in snow. The Marquis and the others were walking through the snow, and they didn't know how cold it would be.

She hung up her cloak, sat down by the bed, tucked Princess Xinyang into bed, and comforted her softly: "The Marquis has experienced hundreds of battles, and he will definitely come back safely."

Princess Xinyang whispered: "I hope so."

 …

 Xiao Ji has been walking for several days.

Princess Xinyang did not reveal her identity, and the little Princess Dongyi probably received instructions from Xiao Ji, and did not tell anyone who she was.

 Furthermore, the little princess Dongyi's attitude towards her was much more respectful. Xiao Ji must have specially warned her before leaving.

She was the first woman to live in Xiao Ji's tent. None of the defenders in the camp dared to disrespect her. Even if they did, they couldn't defeat Long Yi.

Xiao Ming lives in this camp, and Princess Xinyang goes there to see him every day.

 She had never cared about him or anyone around him before, and she was not familiar with his only brother Xiao Ming.

 The relationship between their brothers is said to be good.

 But she really had no impression of how they got along with each other.

  She knew too little about him.

 “You’re here.” In Xiao Ming’s tent, the little princess Dongyi looked back at Princess Xinyang.

Princess Xinyang came over, her eyes fell on the face that was very similar to Xiao Ji, and said: "How is your father today? Is he awake?"

Little Princess Dongyi shook her head: "No."

Princess Xinyang spent a few days with her and found that she was not bad-hearted, and those unruly ways were just her way of survival here.

Her situation is very embarrassing. She is Xiao Ming's daughter, but she has not had time to be officially recognized by Xiao Ming.

  Xiao Ji could not take the decision for her younger brother, so her identity was not officially announced to the public.

 She is a Dongyi person who came to negotiate peace. If she is not domineering, she will be bullied easily.

 Princess Xinyang asked: "Your mother..."

The little princess of Dongyi smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "My mother passed away very early, and I was raised by my cousin. Later, my cousin brought back a man, and that man found that I looked like the same person, so he Asked who my parents were. I don’t know how he investigated, but he found out that I was the flesh and blood of your General Weiyuan of Zhao Kingdom. My cousin aunt sold me to that man, and he took me to see King Dongyi .The King of Dongyi used me to coax out your Weiyuan General. He was poisoned just to save me. What’s ridiculous is that the King of Dongyi dared to send me to negotiate peace.”

Princess Xinyang said: "King Dongyi hopes that Xiao Ji will kill you, avenge his brother, and at the same time sow a wedge between him and Xiao Ming. But Xiao Ji is not this kind of person."

Little Princess Dongyi felt that her topic had nothing to say. She looked at Princess Xinyang and said: "It is rumored that your relationship with the Marquis is not good, but I don't think so. You come here every day to ask for military reports."

"I..." Princess Xinyang's petty thoughts were exposed, and she felt a little embarrassed, "I am the princess of Zhao State, and it is natural for me to care about military affairs."

The little princess of Dongyi was burning with gossip: "So you are here under an order? Are you really sent by the emperor to monitor Marquis Xuanping?"

 Can this girl speak?

Has her relationship with Xiao Ji become so bad that the Dongyi people can hear it?

 Princess Xinyang was a little angry.

 …

News of the war comes almost every day in Donglinguan. The Dongyi people captured the generals of the Zhao Kingdom and led the Zhao Kingdom's army into the mountains and forests. They were good at jungle warfare and took advantage of the terrain to cause the Zhao Kingdom's army to suffer a lot. .

Xiao Jijian took the wrong approach and did not fight with them. Instead, he took Chang Jing and sneaked into the lair of the Dongyi army and killed the Dongyi general.

 Until the tenth day, various good news kept coming from Donglin Pass.

But on the early morning of the eleventh day, a piece of bad news enveloped the entire military camp—Xiao Ji was unfortunately shot by a stray arrow from the Dongyi people on his way back to the camp while covering the wounded soldiers, and his life or death was uncertain!

 A cold air rose from the soles of her feet, and Princess Xinyang felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

Yu Jin looked at her worriedly: "Princess, maybe there is a mistake in the military situation. Don't worry yet. I will ask someone to find out - Princess, what are you doing!"

 Princess Xinyang came out of the tent.

She went directly to the stable and picked a high-quality horse. When Yujin came over, she had already climbed on the horse.

Yu Jin grabbed the reins and looked at her in horror: "Princess... The Marquis has told you to wait for him in the military camp... Don't be impulsive..."

Princess Xinyang is not impulsive. Even when Princess Liang came to her with selfish and disgusting purposes, she never beat her out regardless of the consequences.

 But at this moment, she couldn't control herself from looking for him.

 She thought that she had found the answer Yujin asked her to find.

 But he didn’t know her answer yet.

 She wanted to tell him.

Princess Xinyang’s horse disappeared into the white sky and earth, and Long Yi followed it like a shadow.

 The two of them came to Donglin Pass.

After arriving at Donglin Pass, Yu Jin's guess was confirmed - the man who was hit by the stray arrow was indeed not Xuanping Hou Xiao Ji, but Chang Jing.

Chang Jing was not seriously injured, just scratched his skin, and fell into a snow pit in the forest with Marquis Xuanping, which led to the previous misunderstanding.

 “Where is Marquis Xuanping?” Princess Xinyang asked Chang Jing in the wounded barracks.

Chang Jing said sadly: "I don't know, I fainted after falling into the snow pit. When I woke up, he had already carried me back to the wounded barracks."

Princess Xinyang called the defender Zhang Hu and revealed her identity to Zhang Hu: "Take me to the scene."

 “Yes!” Zhang Hu responded with clasped fists.

The group of people came to the forest where Xuanping Hou and Chang Jing had an accident. Strictly speaking, this place is not the territory of the Dongyi people. The terrain here is too complicated. Even the Dongyi people who are good at jungle warfare dare not wander around here.

 Zhang Hu said: "Princess, it's dangerous ahead, so it's better to be young and go see it."

Princess Xinyang said calmly: "No need."

The group of people searched along the footprints in the snow. When they came to a mountain col, Long Yi suddenly lay down, picked it up with his hands, and pulled out a waist badge.

　　 is the token of the Xuanping Hou Mansion.

Long Yi continued to dig down and dug out a small hole.

He buried his head in the hole, looked around, and opened his mouth to shout: "Wow-wow-"

“Long Yi, have you discovered anything?” Princess Xinyang came over and asked.

Long Yi pulled his head out of the hole and said to her: "There is someone down there who is injured and his breath is very weak."

 He said and gave the token to Princess Xinyang.

Princess Xinyang recognized what it was, her eyes lit up, and she said, "It's Xiao Ji's personal belongings! The person below...could it be Xiao Ji?"

 “I can’t get down.” Long Yi said.

Zhang Hu also came over. He knelt down opposite Long Yi and carefully observed the cave. His expression suddenly became solemn, and he said to the nearby soldiers holding shovels who were walking towards this side: "Don't come here, all of you!"

 Everyone stopped in their tracks.

Zhang Hu said nervously: "The rock above this cave is not strong and may crack at any time. If the person below is really the Marquis, he may be crushed to death by the collapsing rock."

Princess Xinyang looked at the very narrow hole and couldn't understand how a big living person could fall in.

“Can the hole be dug bigger?” she asked.

Zhang Hu shook his head: "No, it will collapse as soon as you dig it. The only way is to see if there is another way out below and let the Marquis go out through that way."

Princess Xinyang clenched her fingers: "What if there is no other way out?"

 Zhang Hu said: "Maybe the Marquis rushed out of this hole himself."

Princess Xinyang frowned and said: "But Long Yi said that his breath is very weak, how could he come out by himself?"

 Zhang Hu whispered: "Then wait until Mr. Hou recovers from his injuries..."

Princess Xinyang said angrily: "He is cold and hungry down there. How can he recover from his injuries? He froze to death in one day!"

Zhang Hu is also wronged. It’s not that he doesn’t want to save the Marquis, but the reality is that the situation is really difficult to handle.

 Long Yi put his head deep into the hole again and stuck out his tongue: "Luan Luo Luo~"

 He couldn't get in, his neck was stuck.

 Zhang Hu was thinner than him, but he couldn't get down either.

 The smallest soldier he found was still several sizes too big.

 “You all get out of the way.” Princess Xinyang said.

 Everyone was stunned.

Princess Xinyang came to the entrance of the cave slowly and carefully step by step. She leaned over and tried, but she couldn't get in with her shoulders. It was just a little too much.

Zhang Hu's face changed drastically when he saw that she actually wanted to go down by himself: "Princess! No! It's very dangerous! Besides, we can't be sure that the person is the Marquis! You must not risk yourself!"

 She straightened up and said calmly: "Turn your back."

 Everyone is even more puzzled.

 Princess Xinyang raised her hands and began to untie her clothes.

Zhang Hu quickly covered his eyes and turned around, and ordered: "Turn around, everyone! Close your eyes!"

The royal princess, who had never even taken off her veil easily in front of others, took off her clothes one by one behind hundreds of soldiers.

When she stripped down to her thin inner garment, her delicate body was almost blown away by the biting wind.

She was shivering with cold, staring, her teeth were chattering, and she was shivering.

However, she did not flinch. She looked at the dark hole, closed her eyes and jumped in!

 (End of this chapter)