She immediately responded, "Your Highness, you heard me wrong." However, her body was trembling slightly uncontrollably, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and her ears felt hot, as if there was an electric current flowing between the two of them.
Dancing with His Highness the Prince is indeed a completely different feeling from when practicing with Sandone.
And it was only after the fact that we learned that the matriarch of the Siren Clan took the initiative to apply to be a dance partner during the day. It was a deliberate plan set by His Highness considering that she might not agree to attend the banquet due to her dislike of liveliness.
She was plotted against by His Highness the Prince, and she came here with a grudge.
But what does it matter?
She once thought that after dying alone in this life, she would sit on the highest mountain in the Winter Country and become an ice sculpture, bathed in the stars and moonlight, buried in the ruthless wind and snow, and her body would only decay after many is not until people can no longer hear the ancient songs that they discover that the singer is no longer alive.
However, at the party that day, for the first time, she truly experienced the feeling of being connected to the world. She was so immersed in the dance steps of His Highness that she almost forgot that she was always sitting alone on the top of the snow-capped mountains.
People danced under the dim street lights in the town, the blazing bonfire warmed people's hearts, the bright moon hung in the rare clear night sky, and the audience around them applauded her and His Highness the Prince's wonderful dance. She knew in her heart that These are His Highness the Prince's attempts to melt the ice in her heart.
She recalled the ancient legend in her family.
"It is said that once every fairy girl meets true love, the man will have a strange connection with her spiritual world. When they are close to each other, the man can always hear the ethereal songs of the fairy tribe. It is a kind of connection between all the gods. The miraculous phenomena that even the gods cannot explain are romantically described by the fairy clan as destiny.”
The old women in the tribe often say that many women in the Fairy Tribe will never meet such a man in their entire lives, and if they do, they must cherish it.
……
That dinner was very successful. Not only the guests present, but also tourists from all over the country who came to repay their kindness also donated generously. However, one dance actually raised hundreds of millions of molas.
A recent charity ball in Solstice City invited many nobles and ministers, and even [Rooster] Puccinella was invited to help out. The guests attending the meeting were many business elites, as well as major slave owners. Finally, The funds raised were only 8000 million molas.
After the dinner, the old couple who organized the charity ball came with a young man, knelt directly at her feet, and said with tears that this was to thank the Executive Officer for his reforms, otherwise he would not be able to do it in his life. Reunited with his parents, he also said that there were many slaves like him who were trafficked to mines and farmland since childhood, and their fates changed accordingly.
She looked at His Highness the Prince beside her and said: "The person who should be thanked is His Highness the Prince. Without him, the reform would not be successful."
The young man cried: "Executor, I have thanked His Highness the Prince countless times in my heart. But... can he hear me?"
She did not answer directly, but asked His Royal Highness the Prince beside her, "Can you?"
His Highness the Prince smiled heartily and said: "Young man, thank yourself for never giving up hope in the mine. Thank your parents for working tirelessly for decades. Thank you for the Sheriff. After 20 years, you are still alive." Remember this disappearance case. But don’t thank God, and don’t thank fate. The sky in Teyvat is not worthy of our faith, and fate is just a script written in advance by the black hands behind the scenes."
No one present knew His Highness the he bravely invited the executive officer to dance today, and judging from the situation in front of him, the executive officer was quite satisfied, so everyone had a good impression of him. However, after hearing these arrogant words, many people looked at him His eyes changed.
A person who does not respect God and fate will be abandoned by God and fate, and the previous goodwill will disappear immediately.
Someone jumped out and retorted: "In order to attract the attention of the Executive Officer, you said shocking and weird remarks? The funniest thing is that when others wanted to thank His Highness the Prince, he said it would be better to thank himself, ignoring the credit of His Highness the Prince. Executive Officer My lord, you'd better stay away from people who seek fame and reputation."
She pretended to look majestic and said "Yeah".But I was laughing secretly in my heart. If these people knew that the person standing in front of them was His Royal Highness, would they still speak so harshly?
On the way back to the camp, the two chose to walk with a tacit understanding, and His Royal Highness arranged for Sandone to take the guards back in a leaving, Sandonie said with a bad smile, "Don't do bad things, you two." Another blush appeared on her face, and she "drove" Sandonie away.
The moon was sparse, and the two of them were walking side by side on the snowy path with traces of horse hoofprints and ruts.
She put her hands behind her back, walked briskly, raised the brim of her hat with flower spikes, and asked: "They can't understand what you said. They are at different heights, so it is difficult for them to understand."
His Royal Highness the Prince replied: "In the final analysis, you did not announce your rebellion against heaven. The people of Winter Kingdom have been kept in the dark and always believed that Her Majesty the Queen's ambition was only to annex the other six countries. When the next step of reforms is carried out, I will Let the Queen tell the world that the fundamental national policy of the Winter Kingdom is to overthrow the laws of heaven and reestablish the order of the world."
"This is tantamount to telling everyone that we are going to 'rebel,'" she worried.
His Highness the Prince picked up a handful of snowflakes, rolled them into snowballs, and threw them far away before falling. He laughed and said: "Yes, we want to tell the whole world that we are going to rebel! After the destruction of Kanria, the Seven Gods and the Sky The island looks very different, and there has been no contact in the past 500 years. Except for the Ice Queen, the other six earthly rulers may have had different intentions. Even if they do not dare to help us openly, they will at least maintain a neutral attitude. How about we take the lead and stab us? Break this window paper!
"Furthermore, do you think the other six gods don't know about it if the Ice Queen doesn't tell them? Barbatos, Thunder Movie, Morax, Little Lucky Grass King, Water God and Fire God, they are all old foxes who have gone through life and death battles, and have always persisted. With a wait-and-see attitude, I want to reap the benefits.
"There is a law about longevity. The longer people live, the more afraid of death they are and the more cautious they are. And these six guys have all lived for hundreds or thousands of years, or are living fossils who have inherited the memories of their previous lives. , tell me, if I destroy their retreat and force them to have no way out, will they rebel with us?"
She asked: "Since you say they are old foxes, why should I listen to you?"
His Highness the Prince shouted very loudly: "They must listen to what I say. Whoever doesn't listen, I will beat him up! If God wants to kill me, do I have to swallow my anger and not even dare to fart? As long as I live One day, God’s will, don’t even think about having an easy time!”
At that moment, a strong murderous aura surged between His Royal Highness's brows and eyes, which was completely different from his usual scholarly appearance. He looked like a general about to embark on the battlefield.
She got to know the man in front of her more deeply. She must repay kindness and revenge.
With the strength of His Highness the Prince, even if he goes to Liyue and Daozhi, he can still become the overlord who leads a party and use the power of other countries to counterattack the end, he stayed in the Winter Kingdom, which did not have a very good reputation. Apparently because Her Majesty the Queen risked her life to save her and still had unconditional trust, His Highness the Prince decided to reciprocate the favor and agreed to help with the reform. Otherwise, how could the Winter Kingdom retain a woman in the bitterly cold wind? "The Advent"?
The maintainer of the Heavenly Law cast a curse of death. His Highness the Prince did not beg for mercy, did not surrender, and did not live an ignoble existence. On the contrary, he strengthened his belief in revenge against the Heavenly Law, and would definitely overcome any difficulties and belief was so firm that he resisted the curse's outbreaks again and again through pure willpower.
This man has both a gentle and elegant side and a violent side. He is simple but not simple, complex but not complicated. He is the most special man she has ever seen.
After a brief moment of surprise, she covered her mouth and said with a sweet smile, "That's unreasonable."
His Royal Highness regained his composure and asked, "Then would you like such an unreasonable man to sit with you on the top of the snow-capped mountains forever, watching the sunrise in the new world?"
She looked flustered, not daring to look into those hot pupils. She took a few steps quickly and threw away His Highness the Prince.
After two or three months of being together day and night, my feelings for His Highness the Prince went from feeling arrogant and conceited at first, to then thinking that the Winter Kingdom could not do without this man, to now that my heart is beating, and it is difficult to express it with a simple "willing or not" "Yes" to answer.
If you say you don't want to, it's against your will. Now, if you say yes, you feel very has her own pride. In the first half of her life, she believed that she would die alone in this life, letting the ancient songs resound on the Sky Island again, and she had no regrets even if she died on the way to fight for you suddenly meet a man and change your mind, doesn't it prove that your persistence in the first half of your life is meaningless?
Besides, there is also the curse about the fairy clan that has been bothering her.
The fairy race has been a great race that has guided the direction of mankind a long time ago, but if they fall in love with humans, they will lose their strength and become little floating spirits without wisdom, memory, and that time, the ancestors of the fairy clan were demoted to the mortal world by the throne in the sky. There were rumors in the clan that the ancestors fell in love with a human being who came across the starry sky. That human being was one of the earliest "arrivals" in the Teyvat continent. .
Although tens of thousands of years have passed, it has been proved that the fairy clan can marry humans, and there have been cases of intermarriage in the clan, but their husbands are just ordinary humans and not "adventors". His Royal Highness is a genuine descendant. She is worried that the curse will come true, and the basis for her worry is that the continent of Teyvat may be a cyclic world, so it is possible to embark on the old path traveled by her ancestors...
His Highness the Prince caught up and said apologetically: "I know it will be very abrupt to ask this question, so I will give you time to think about it. By the way, don't make me wait too long. There are thousands of beautiful girls in this world, and maybe one day Someone just kidnapped me."
She stopped, put her hands on her hips and said, "Let's see who dares." After saying that, she regretted that she shouldn't have made such a hasty statement. Finally, she sighed softly and changed the subject, "At the dance just now, you were just better than me." The old couple’s son is a few years older, but they call him young man.”
His Royal Highness asked: "Is there anything wrong?"
She replied: "It sounds old-fashioned, like an old man giving guidance to the younger generation."
His Highness the Prince smiled and said: "People will always grow old. It's good for you to see what I will look like when I get old in advance, so as not to dislike me when I am really old. Columbia, don't move."
"Huh?" She stood obediently.
His Highness the Prince stepped forward, helped her tie the pink velvet scarf around her neck again, and supported the brim of her hat, "Your scarf is loose..."
The cold wind around them suddenly stopped. Except for the howling wind in the valley in the distance, the whole world was silent. The only sounds that could be heard were the sound of falling snowflakes and the hot breath of each other's breath close to each other.
His Royal Highness the Prince said softly: "Columbia, you are so beautiful today..."
At that moment, she suddenly realized that His Highness the Prince's voice was a little nervous even though he faced the undead knight's assassination without changing his expression.
As a result, she was extremely nervous and at a loss.
The distance between the two bodies was getting closer and closer. Seeing that she was about to fall into the broad embrace of His Highness the Prince, she shouted to the side, "Sandogne, do you like His Highness the Prince?" The next second, while His Highness the Prince was taking advantage of her, she shouted to the side. When he was stunned, he picked up the hem of his skirt and ran away with oil on his feet.
His Royal Highness smiled helplessly.
After that, the two of them were silent all the way.
But I walked very slowly, trying to make the journey home as long as possible, which is not too long.
Chapter 192 I Am Like This
When the two returned to the camp, [Puppet] Sandone, who was roasting a few more sweet potatoes by the stove, heard the footsteps outside the tent, rushed out in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Hmph, there is indeed something going on. , it took so long to come back. Your Highness, did you bully her? Why is Sandone's face so red? But I don't care about your business. After eating and drinking, I'm going to do research. .”
After saying that, he held a few fragrant roasted sweet potatoes, sat on the palm of the self-discipline agency, and got into the makeshift tin room with the sign "Storage Room" hanging on the door.
But that's not actually a storage room, it's a laboratory.
Her Majesty the Queen sent Sandonne to serve as the personal bodyguard of Her Royal Highness the Prince. She was diligent at first and stayed 24 hours a day. However, two or three months ago, Her Majesty the Prince implemented a fake death plan and announced his assassination. Her mission ended prematurely. , at least to the outside world.
Now that His Highness the Prince is dead, the enemy has lost their target for assassination. Sandone's work as a "bodyguard" has come to an end, and she is not interested in reform matters. Listening to her and His Highness the Prince talking about reforms in various places every day makes her either scratch her head or faint. Drowsy, and in short boring.
Seeing this situation, His Royal Highness the Prince sent someone to build this temporary laboratory, but he could not tell the outside world that it was a laboratory, otherwise Sandone would be considered to be not doing his job properly during the performance of his official duties. Piero's eyes were bright, Any executive who does not work seriously will be punished, so the "storage room" sign was put up.
On the day the laboratory was moved, His Royal Highness personally took Sandonie to visit. Although the sparrow was small, it was well-equipped with all kinds of instruments and equipment. If it were not for his concern for her feelings, he would have given it to the prince on the spot. Your Highness thanks you with a hug.
His Royal Highness the Prince had changed his appearance when he returned to the camp. No one in the camp could recognize him. Only the captain of the guard who knew the inside story and was standing guard in front of the tent saluted respectfully.
After entering the tent, His Royal Highness the Prince asked: "What are those people doing outside the camp?"
Just now, she and Columbia were at the gate of the camp and noticed a large number of people gathering nearby.
Seeing His Highness the Prince playing with the snowflakes on her body, the action was very intimate and ambiguous. The captain of the guard pretended not to see anything and reported: "After the charity ball, the people and local tourists spontaneously came to commemorate His Highness the Prince. They said The abolition of serfdom was achieved by His Highness with his life, and it deserves to be remembered forever by future generations. I also heard that the tombstones of hundreds of serfs over there were handwritten by His Highness himself, so they all watched and paid silent tribute."
She made the decision on behalf of His Highness the Prince and ordered: "Let the kitchen prepare a few buckets of ginger soup and bring it over, and prepare some stoves."
His Royal Highness the Prince said: "I will do it to the letter."
"As ordered."
The tent became a world for two people again, but it was time for her to go to the nearby mountain top to sing songs. The people of the Winter Kingdom needed her songs to fall asleep, and the dark creatures frozen underground needed her songs to hypnotize them.
When the singing ended, it was almost dawn.
I was just about to drag my tired body back to the dormitory to rest, but I saw that the tent of His Highness the Prince was still lit. The strangest thing was that the tent was not closed, and the cold wind was blowing snowflakes and was pouring inside.
She went over and asked the captain of the guard at the door, "Why don't you close the door? His Highness is sick. Can you take responsibility?" The captain of the guard said aggrievedly, "His Royal Highness won't let you close the door."
She went in and asked why. His Royal Highness, who was sitting in front of the desk and wrapped in a cotton-padded jacket, said with a smile: "Have you forgotten? It was you who told me not to close the door and let me calm down."
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She scolded her as "childish" and then asked distressedly, "Are you cold?"
His Royal Highness the Prince shook his head and replied: "You endured the cold wind and blizzard on the top of the mountain. I just want to feel the temperature of this wind and snow with you."
She was very moved, but she said another cruel word, "Your Highness, you and I both need to play our respective roles in life, fulfill our duties, and do our jobs well. You can regard me as a Chess piece, say it when you need it, put it aside when you don't need it, I won't complain. But you want too much, and I can never be satisfied. I am a person who has been judged by the gods, so I..."
She didn't say the last sentence, but it was echoing in her heart——
This kind of me, the sinful me, is not worthy of your sincere love.
Chapter 193 Sunflower
After she left that night, His Royal Highness may have stayed up all night without rest, or he may have suffered from the wind and cold. In short, the curse broke out again the next day, and it was more serious than the last time. He was almost bedridden throughout the day. He was in a half-dream and half-awake state, with a fever all over his body and vague sounds coming from his mouth from time to time.
[Puppet] After Sandone found out, he hurriedly dropped the unfinished experiment in his hand and rushed into His Royal Highness the Prince's tent. He didn't even have time to change his oil-stained work clothes, and said anxiously:
"Columbia, Your Highness's situation is very bad. We have to go back to Her Majesty the Queen for help. We can't hide it any longer. Your Highness may not be able to handle it with your own strength this time. The curse has obviously been suppressed, how could it be exceeded? Is it getting more serious? What on earth did you talk about last night?"
She sat on the edge of the bed, changed into a towel soaked in cold water, and put it on His Highness the Prince's sweaty forehead. Then she held His Highness's hand, but she was extra calm. "To fight against the curse of heaven, you need an indestructible force." Faith, an extremely firm mind, and an extremely stable state of mind. Wait a minute, His Highness is a very strong person, no matter what I say, he will not be sad..."
[Puppet] Sandone heard that she was crying, "How could you be willing to hurt His Highness?" After all, the words were on her lips and swallowed in her stomach. She sighed and said: "Colombia, you are the most powerful in the spiritual field. , chant now, do you think His Highness can hear it? If not, try, maybe you can wake him up. Do you still remember how His Highness fought against the curse several times before? He concentrated on reading, forgetting all the pain, and he had to find a way anyway. Keep him awake."
She lowered her head and said, "I've tried everything."
Before Sandonne arrived, she had put herself in His Highness's ears and sang the most vital songs, hoping to influence His Highness's subconscious, but it had almost no effect.
The only thing she could be sure of was that the man in front of her was deeply affectionate and would never let him go easily before she agreed.
His Royal Highness the Prince was in a coma for three days and three nights. She and Sandonne waited in fear for three days and three nights. Fortunately, everything was safe in the end.
It was in the middle of the night when she woke up, and she hurriedly woke Sandonne, and they both cried with joy.
His Royal Highness sat up weakly and said with a pale face: "Two great executives, you have always been served by others, so you don't know how to serve others."
[Puppet] Sandonne asked why, and His Royal Highness the Prince replied: "I am almost dying of thirst and don't know how to bring a cup of tea."
She and Sandonne smiled at each other.
His Royal Highness, in this state, is in a normal mental state. The curse that suddenly broke out was finally overturned again.
She thought that after surviving this time, His Highness the Prince would be in peace, but unexpectedly, the real danger was yet to time the curse from heaven is suppressed by His Royal Highness, it will accumulate strength and prepare for a more powerful explosion.
As the reform of serfdom came to an end, His Royal Highness became more and more leisurely in his daily work, but he never went out to participate in activities, or sat with her and Sandonne to chat and drink tea. Most of the time, he concentrated on reading.
She knew that His Highness the Prince intended to avoid the two of them being alone together.
Although His Highness the Prince can be domineering at times, in terms of relationships, since the last time she said those words, he has respected her choice very much and has never said anything that went beyond the boundaries of friends or words that made her feel embarrassed. .
She had an unspeakable secret and had to , it would be wonderful to give His Highness the Prince a chance to could not agree, but was reluctant to leave His Highness. This was probably her most contradictory state of mind at that time.
Later, whenever she thought about this past incident, she would feel stupid. In fact, His Highness the Prince didn't care about her past at all.
But at that time, she thought that the distant relationship was very comfortable, at least she could stay with His Highness the sometimes I feel sad alone, and my sadness affects my singing at much so that Her Majesty the Queen sent someone over to ask if anything sad had happened. Recently, people were saying that the ethereal singing at night was no longer joyful, but had become sad.
She answered in her heart that the songs of the fairies with tragic fate have always been sad and lonely. However, the sadness contained in the songs they sang in the past was relatively weak, but now it is very strong.
In the blink of an eye, another three months passed.
During this period, His Highness the Prince's curse would still occur from time to time, but they were all passed without any danger.
That day, the pot of sunflowers on the desk once again produced fresh flowers, and they were about to bloom. After processing the last document, His Royal Highness suddenly stretched out and said: "Columbia, what should we do? Go home. What are you going to do with this sunflower? Take it back or give it to the farmer next to you."
She put down the documents submitted from various places. Judging from the recent situation, there were almost very few things related to serfdom, indicating that the first step of reform was about to be came to the pot of sunflowers and squatted down. Through the green branches and leaves and a few flowers, he could just see the face of His Highness the Prince, and asked: "Your Highness doesn't like it?"
His Highness the Prince replied: "Of course I like it, but after returning to the city, I no longer have time to raise it. Moreover, this sunflower has adapted to the soil and water quality here. It may wither immediately in a new environment."
She picked up the pot of sunflowers, put it in front of her nose, smelled the fragrance, and said thoughtfully: "Then give it to a nearby farmer. Last time we came back from a dance, we saw a farmer's family under a row of big trees on the roadside. The glass is polished brightly. The owner must also be a flower lover. There are several pots of green plants placed on the window sill. By the way, before giving it away, Your Highness might as well draw a sunflower and take it out to look at when you want to see it. It would be a good carrier to use it in the future to recall the bitter and sweet memories."
His Highness the Prince smiled and said: "Remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet? How can it have such rich connotations. Are you reluctant to part with the sunflower, or is it because we watered and fertilized it to feed it together. If there are other meanings, in the past six months, it has The only touch of green in a camp that is full of chilling and solemn atmosphere. Seeing it every day will make you feel better. Columbia, help me get a roll of white paper."
Then with a wave of his sleeves, he pushed the memorials sent by the princes and ministers on the desk to the ground, slowly spread out the white paper, took out a "writing brush", and began to draw carefully.
She was surprised when she first saw the calligraphy brush made by His Highness King Qin. It turned out that this tool made of animal fur and bamboo tubes can both write calligraphy and painting. It is said that it comes from her hometown and has been passed down for thousands of years. Long.
