ZHAO JUREN'S LAST LOVE
CHAPTERS 105. Mourning Day
The scenery at the corners of Kotaraja Niangxi road is still as before, the cool breeze from the surface of the lake is soft, carrying the fresh fragrance of lotus flowers blowing by from the north.
The trees on both sides of the road swayed with the wind, the branches swirling, like the agile waist of a dancing girl. So quiet yet so grim.
Under the sunset light, dusk radiated orange, exhausted birds returned to the trees, the river glazed with red shadows, vast as if stained with blood.
Deep in the middle of the five-colored Lake, the angel palace looked desolate but there was something there that no one knew about. Dusk hid it even from the sorrowful gaze of the sky.
Niangxi held a national mourning for all its residents, not least because the situation was precarious in the country. Everyone was wearing white coarse clothes, even the hanging lanterns were covered in white cloths, when walking on the street, everywhere felt a sense of sorrow full of despair.
Their king died at the stabbing of his own queen, the news seemed to burn the air, creating untold heat.
From corner to corner only the story was heard, even the aggression waged by Yanzhie's side seemed to slowly come to a halt.
It is unethical if the war continues, above the sorrow of the enemy country.
"What a pesky fate of the young Chen king. A king should stand in the arena of war or on his bed because he is old instead of dying in vain at the tip of his wife's own dagger." The gossip was in every corner of the city mourning, pity and regret seemed to make king Chen became so weak in front of all his people.
Little by little it became dark, the night fell slowly, the moon was very round, rising from the tops of the trees that ran its branches glitteringly hanging on the horizon far away.
In a camp, the border of Yanshan His Highness Yan Yue stood restlessly staring at the gloomy sky.
"It should be that Nan Chen died at my hands, he has taken the life of my sister, Juren. Why did the sky take that right from me." His Eminence Yan Yue exclaimed softly, he looked up towards the desolate sky.
Commander Jian Jie had just arrived, he had withdrawn his troops to the border from the nearby province on the orders of His Highness Yan Yue but Qian Ren remained defensive outside the city.
The mourning atmosphere made things stop suddenly when soon they might have taken control of the two northernmost provinces of Niang State.
"This war I will continue after this mourning is over. I will take the city that killed Juren. I avenge every blood that is spilled, even for Jiu Jiu..." His Highness Yan Yue was determined, her memory was as fierce as passing on Jiu Fei, that woman was the only link between herself and Niang. Dead in the land people with bodies buried under Wisteria trees, nobody wants them. Niang had thrown away the woman for her betrayal but to Yan Yue, her first love had given her loyalty all the way to her bones. Wasn't it by taking Niang's country that he could make Jiu Fei calm and Juren's grudge avenged?
"Your Majesty, there's a party from the Governor's palace just arrived, delivering logistics..." Jian Jie lowered her head for a moment. The sentence stopped.
His Majesty didn't budge, the matter of the logiatic delivery was commonplace and he never took the navel with it. He said the news was not important at all to discuss.
"Electable...." Jian Jie looked hesitant to continue her sentence.
His Highness Yan Yue's eyebrows rose in between his glances.
"Electus?"
"Who?" Asked His Highness Yan Yue, now Jian Jie received the king's attention completely.
"I'll send him here if His Majesty pleases..." Jian Jie suddenly bowed, and did not immediately stand up as if waiting for His Majesty Yan Yue's reply.
"Is this important?" Ask His Majesty.
"Mistress Su Nuo said so." Jian Jie replied without raising her head.
Su Nuo's name made His Majesty slightly stunned, it was the first concubine to enter Weiyan's palace, how could he not remember?
A young girl of five or sixteen in a red dress blushed, her cheeks almost as red as her clothes. He met on his first night at the age of 18. Right after Jiu Fei was sent to the temple to become a nun.
"Your Majesty, I am at your service." His words were calm with the veil covering his face, his voice was made as mature as possible when the young Yan Yue knew very well he did not even understand the meaning of serving at all.
And His Highness Yan Yue left him with an oath of absorbency and drunkenness, he hated the woman who came without being invited, the female senator he so desperately wanted had left him just like that in a broken heart without a single word.
Su Nuo, the frightened first concubine was crying in the corner of her room when His Eminence Yan Yue tore her clothes off and told her to show how to serve the one in that sense.
The frightened cry of the young girl was still remembered by Her Highness Yan Yue until now. And he realized, Su Nuo's evil act when harming Consort Chie Yuan was the pain that precipitated from all his treatment.
"Su Nuo?" His Highness Yan Yue stared intently at Jian Jie, looking dislikeful.
"Why did Governor Su send his daughter here? He knows full well I divorced him a few years ago." His Highness Yan Yue's voice was slightly upset.
Jian Jie did not reply, she knew His Majesty could even be angrier if she knew who exactly followed the king to this camp of hers.
"Mrs Su Nuo carried a message from Her Highness the Grand Empress."
The words Jian Jie struck out immediately made His Majesty shocked. For dozens of days he had left the palace and was now on the lips of the city of Yitchen, I don't know how long he held back his longing for his wife but his determination was so strong to seize Niang's country that he even tried to kill the longing in a dream.
"What's wrong with Xiao Yi? Is my queen sick or..." Ask in a little loud voice.
"Your Majesty the Empress is fine, Your Majesty the king need not worry..." A soft voice rang out from behind His Highness Yan Yue's back, making her turn around.
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