Chapter 304: Recalling The Past
Li Xi’er felt a pair of eyes like venomous snakes coldly staring at her back.
She was one hundred percent sure. Hmph! This person was Tuoba Yi.
“Little Nuonuo!”
What?
Li Xi’er was struck as if by lightning! Her heart suddenly stopped!
“What’s wrong, do you remember now?”
Tuoba Yi wouldn’t give up and brought up that heart-wrenching topic again from behind!
She knew that the painful thorn deep in her heart was finally going to be pulled out, uprooted completely. She hated him, hated to pull out his tendons and peel off his skin!
Kill him with one sword. Li Xi’er’s eyes flashed as she quickened her pace!
“Isn’t that right?”
Gone? So calm? Tuoba Yi was puzzled again.
Tuoba Yi!!! She suppressed the impulse to beat him to death. This scum! She hadn’t gone looking for him yet, and he had delivered himself to her door!
Damn man, man who deserves a thousand cuts and ten thousand dismemberments. After exiting the bar’s back door, Li Xi’er took several big steps to the back street, squatted in the corner, and painfully beat her own heart while suppressing her voice, then ran madly, letting the heavy rain wash over her body!
To clear her mind, scenes whistled past one by one…
That day, Hua Linglong also rushed back overnight relentlessly to the General’s Mansion, saw the coffin placed in the main hall about to be lifted for burial, and shouted “Father!”
She stumbled and fell headlong. No matter how good her stamina, the journey was long and arduous. She still unexpectedly appeared at General Hua’s funeral. Second Uncle, Grandmother, and Second Wife saw this and immediately accused her of being unfilial!
She was pointed at and denounced by a thousand guests. “And to think her father had pampered her in the palm of his hand since childhood! She abandoned her father for years to practice martial arts without returning. Even this matter was handled on her behalf by Hua Yan from the second son’s family. Hua Yan has filial piety! Linglong is not worthy to be General Hua’s daughter!”
Hua Yan, dressed in white with a small white flower in her hair, cried heartbrokenly, evoking pity. It was she who had taken Linglong’s place in tending to her father’s coffin and seeing General Hua on his final journey.
Then, just a few days later, it was suddenly rumored that General Hua’s daughter Hua Linglong got drunk during the mourning period, violated the code of womanly virtue by secretly consorting with a servant, and that servant was caught in the act by Grandmother, Second Uncle, and others, who called the household guards to beat him to death with clubs.
Even if the rumors were false, her gradually swelling belly that grew bigger and bigger was real. Hua Linglong’s name as a slut immediately became notorious inside and outside Shengjing!
Considering her previous reputation as a shrew, and those days after her father’s death when she still acted that way, she was despised by everyone and beaten by all!
Grandmother, Second Uncle, and Second Wife despised her for bringing shame, affecting the Hua family’s reputation. Hua Yan still needed to get married, so they drove her out of the General’s Mansion together!
To show some sincerity, they found her a small side room to give birth in. And at the moment of her production, this damn Tuoba Yi suddenly appeared to trample her dignity!
He seized her most vulnerable moment, took her child, and threatened her to hand over the Black Feather, or he would kill Little Nuonuo!
Her baby!
How could that be?
She begged bitterly, knelt and pleaded with him to be at his disposal. His hateful face was vivid in her mind: “Hua Linglong, do you think you have anything left now that this prince can use?”
“Bah! Withered flower and broken willow, ugly and unsightly. Your father is dead, bah! Don’t you look in the mirror to see what filthy thing you are?”
“Nuonuo? Again swearing eternal love with some wild man?”
Of course she didn’t hand over the Black Feather. It was her father’s life’s work, and she knew what he would do if he got it! “I’ll give you a few days to think it over properly. I’m taking this wild seed away!” She lay on the bed, watching helplessly as he carried away her baby!
“Also, if you dare tell anyone, I’ll kill him immediately!”
And this guy hadn’t even tasted a drop of her milk.
That night, it was announced from the Hua residence that Hua Linglong’s child was stillborn prematurely!
She had no face to face Feng Qingcheng. She had no shame to see him. She hadn’t protected his child well and had no face to face him. She was not worthy to be a mother!
But Feng Qingcheng had never known about this child’s existence from beginning to end, not even what they had done!
That was during their time practicing martial arts outside. In the mountains, they accidentally came into contact with a poisonous flower with aphrodisiac effects. Combined with some wine, Feng Qingcheng lost consciousness!
The accident happened just like that, only that one time. She only discovered it when she returned.
And the next day, Meng Kingdom intensified its attacks on Si Kingdom. Si Kingdom also had border disputes with Feng Lan Kingdom. Si Kingdom faced internal troubles and external threats. How could a great kingdom like Si lack a figure like General Hua?
So they thought of Hua Linglong. Someone suggested that as General Hua’s daughter with a body full of skills, sending her could rally the morale of the troops her father had previously led.
The Emperor knew of the recent unsavory rumors, but the ministers said to atone through merit, to let her father’s death have meaning! Even if she died in battle, it was better than her current reputation. So he issued the decree for her to inherit her father’s mantle, lead troops into battle against Mongolia.
Fought three times, won three times. Morale soared, and the Emperor enfeoffed her as a first-rank Great General!
Fought Meng Kingdom, fought the northern Uba! Finally, now it was to battle Feng Lan Kingdom! The two countries had long-standing border disputes!
But midway through the campaign, she received definite news that this beast Tuoba Yi had thrown Nuonuo into a wolf den. The one who brought her the news was her former subordinate who personally saw Nuonuo torn apart and eaten by those beasts. She had let down her father, let down Feng Qingcheng, let down her own Nuonuo!
So, rather than saying Feng Qingcheng killed her, it was better to say her heart was dead. She single-mindedly sought death to go see her baby. Her bloodshot eyes flashed…
This beast, why had he come? She hadn’t gone looking for him, so why had he come?
Feng Lan allying in marriage with Si Kingdom? Could he be part of the princess’s escort team?
But did Your Highness the Princess need a prince like him for the escort? Since they were sending him, a lofty Si Kingdom prince, why disguise himself like this for the wedding procession?
No need to think, there must be some unspeakable secret. In Si Kingdom, hadn’t he always played the role of the Wise Prince?
As the Wise Prince, he also needed to meet some important figures. Had he left Si Kingdom for so long without being discovered?
Either Si Kingdom had a body double for him, or what exactly was he planning?
Right, she hadn’t heard which princess this Si Kingdom Princess was. She should have inquired beforehand.
Seeing Tuoba Yi, her mind involuntarily conjured up that pure and flawless face, Hua Yan.
Before she set out on campaign, Hua Yan hadn’t married Tuoba Yi as wished. It seemed because of her father’s death, Tuoba Yi didn’t fancy her status. As for whether she later married him as a concubine, she wasn’t sure!
She should have inquired beforehand about this princess’s background.
In a daze with complicated thoughts, she returned to the doorway of the Li Residence. She had been pondering this matter and sorted out her thoughts, preparing to learn about that princess from Honglian first.
“Can, what’s going on? It’s already dark, why are you only back now?”
A concerned voice rang in her ear, startling her awake. Li Xi’er looked up and saw her head sheltered by an umbrella!
“What are you spacing out for? This king is asking you what’s wrong?” The man widened his eyes and grabbed her!
“Why didn’t you use an umbrella? Why don’t you take good care of yourself?”
