OFFERING CONCUBINES
EPISODE 29 MEETING IN EARLY SPRING
It did not feel like he had entered the end of the third month in a different year, Xiao Yi's existence had already passed one winter, at Xingwu's guesthouse, Weiyan's palace, Yubei King's City.
The air began to feel warm, the sun also appeared shyly above the sky, flashing winter clouds that slowly disappeared.
The first day in spring, the duration of the night and day feels the same. The time of sunrise and sunset does not seem to be different.
Above the sky, alabirds and seabirds march with their butterflies, returning after the winter is over. The graceful birds have completed their migration period during the winter.
The beasts sprung up and came out of the hiding place, they began to carry out their activities that had been delayed, the long hibernation period was over. The sound of dating calls from the opposite sex is so tempting, to complete the longing that clumps during winter.
News from the Youwu region, there is a major flood disaster. The frozen Yalu River melted and overflowed. Reinforcements were being sent by the king's city, but the grapevine of bad news reached His Majesty that some of the aid was lost to no purpose. It just disappeared, just like that to the border of the region between Shicuan and Youwu.
Xiao Yi was very worried about this situation, he thought about all his family living in Youwu.
Several times he sent letters to his city but never received a reply.
His Highness Yan Yue had just walked out of the guangli hall after a meeting with the royal higher-ups, discussing about the calamity that quite caught the attention of His Highness Yan Yue.
Even disaster and loss of some aid to Youwu, governor Qian Lie sent an envoy to help investigate the matter of great concern in the midst of the disaster that was being experienced by the small province in the northernmost area of Yanzhi. I hope to investigate this further.
Suddenly eunuch Chen bent down and handed over a small roll of pale cream-colored paper.
"Letter to Your Majesty..." Eunuch Chen stuck out both hands, handing the paper over carefully.
His Majesty accepted it with a slight astonishment,
Chenxing wants to see His Majesty
The short message on that small piece of paper, made His Eminence Yan Yue's brows tangle.
The last time he met this girl was three nights ago at Chue Lian's palace, when he escorted Xiao Yi to deliver help to Sunyen temple, on the 27th of the third month.
Now the girl had suddenly sent a letter, the thing she had never done.
Curiosity troubled His Majesty's heart and there was also a hint of longing that suddenly tickled.
His Majesty immediately expelled the strange feeling, he did not want to be manipulated by the vague feeling in his opinion.
"Set him to be picked up to Rongyu tonight." His Eminence Yan Yue told eunuch Chen.
"Well, Your Highness" eunuch Chen bowed obediently, then immediately met some of his trusted young eunuchs. Instructing some matters relating to the edict of His Highness Yan Yue.
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Xiao Yi raised his head, as it came out from within the palanquin that led him to the grounds of the Rongyu palace, the residence of His Highness Yan Yue.
How many times did the sun rise and sink over the sky that now stretched high above his head. The dark sky felt like a mysterious painting. Met in such a way, like a red color trying to break free but held tightly by a black so hard.
The orange color was similar to the feeling he was trying to maintain but began to waver, like the spirit of his waiting on the call of love in a place far away, gradually flowing to the lowest place in his heart. Shrinking his passion and belief.
Many things from this life that can not be predicted properly, even all estimates sometimes miss altogether.
This palace was completely different from what he had imagined at the beginning when he first entered it.
A group of sea pigeons appeared to be flocking in the sky, heading north towards Yanzhi. The flapping of their wings rhymed with great certainty, as if to inform anyone who saw them, at this time the birds were on their way home enduring many longings, returning to their homes.
Xiao Yi sighed, I don't know what happened to his home in Youwu city right now?
Time felt like a thief, quietly coming and going, leaving confusion in Xiao Yi's heart.
His steps came to a halt in front of the door of Rongyu's palace, waiting for the bodyguards at the door to announce his arrival.
Then the door was opened, there stood His Eminence Yan Yue in a yellow-gold silk robe. His face looked fresh, though his mind was being tangled up due to various royal problems.
The presence of the girl in front of him gave a special influence.
Xiao Yi saluted by bowing his body in front of His Eminence Yan Yue.
His Majesty takes a seat in his hall chair on a higher ground, the official place His Majesty receives guests if they are in the guest room of his residence. Xiao Yi was somewhat astonished, normally His Majesty would sit together with him at a table a bit to the side near the space blocker of the threaded wood. Tonight Your Majesty is a little strange.
"What makes you want to see me, concubine Yi?"
His Highness Yan Yue asked, with such a serious look. Since when did this king call him so officially when they were just the two of them?
This meeting became very awkward, or was His Highness Yan Yue being drunk?
Xiao Yi was suddenly struck in doubt, for the purpose of his arrival.
"I want to talk about the disaster that happened in Youwu" Xiao Yi replied, still standing in an awkward manner.
"The disaster in Youwu?" His Eminence Yan Yue frowned with a probing gaze.
"I'm very worried about my family" Xiao Yi replied cautiously.
"I'm also no less worried, concubine Yi. I'm worried about my people there." said His Majesty, quickly.
Now Xiao Yi raised his face boldly, ascertaining the purpose of the sentence that came out from the mouth of His Majesty Yan Yue.
There he found a wry smile, really like worrying about something.
"Maybe it's appropriate that you come here tonight to discuss this, because you know more about Youwu than I do" now His Majesty's voice was more straightforward.
"And maybe we can discuss it together with someone who also knows the truth about Youwu" His Majesty knocked on his desk in a rather loud voice.
The main door of His Majesty's room opened, eunuch Chen entered with someone who was following him.
"Honor Your Majesty..."
This man's voice was like thunder at night, a voice that was very familiar and known to Xiao Yi for almost many years.
Xiao Yi twisted his body, staring at the dark brown-robed young man who had just arrived with eunuch Chen, standing right beside him with a distance of roughly as much as an inch.
The man still bowed his body so solemnly facing straight to His Majesty. But Xiao Yi's eyes widened at him, with a chest that rumbled like it had just been hit by a storm.
He knows her very well...
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