National Beauty

The only people who saw Guo Xiao kidnapping Zhaozhao, except Song Jianing, were Liu Xi and Shuang'er who followed the rockery, and the servants who were waiting outside were blocked by the rockery.

Guo Xiao appointed Shuang'er to arrange for a carriage to come, and then sent away the coachman and the servants outside. Shuang'er secretly informed the guards of the palace. Guo Xiao warned in a deep voice: "My family has been ambushing in this street. All around, before sunset today, if anyone leaves the palace, my clan will release a ringing arrow. By then, I will not be able to escape the chase of the palace’s guards, so I will simply ask the princess to pay for my life.”

"It's nice, even if we don't chase you down, will the princess fall in your hands, will he be safe and sound?" Liu Xi asked coldly.

Guo Xiao smiled, touching the thick short beard on his lips, his eyes were cast on Song Jianing, who was holding Brother You, standing beside Liu Xi: "I will take the princess to the frontier. When there is, it depends on whether the princess is alive or dead. Shouwang meant it, but before I escaped, the life of the princess was in my hands. How about, does the princess want your maid to deploy secretly, or ask her to obediently arrange the carriage?"

He strained secretly, twisting his body so uncomfortably, Song Jianing saw him, but he left everything behind his head. He just wanted his daughter to be well, and immediately shouted to the two children: "Go, listen to him!"

Shuang'er Liushen ran away to make arrangements.

Song Jianing was about to beg the gangster to let her daughter go, and was shocked to see that the other party looked at Brother You in her arms. Song Jianing instinctively covered his son's head and deflected his body. She was desperate and afraid, but Guo Xiao greedily took in her every move. It was not until Liu Xi blocked Song Jianing that Guo Xiao regretted: "The princess does not have to worry too much. The son is too young and it is inconvenient to watch on the road. The princess is just right."

Liu Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but Song Jianing didn't relax, and looked at her kidnapped daughter, sons and daughters with tears. It was her life.

"Zhao Zhao is still young, ignorant, and easy to cry on the road, please let her go, can I go with you?" Song Jianing cried, preferring to suffer on her own instead of her daughter. When her daughter is safe, she will die again. Never drag the prince to resist the Liao soldiers.

"Wang Hao!" Liu Xi turned to persuade her.

Song Jianing only looked at the gangster pleadingly.

Guo Xiao remained indifferent, and cast his gaze beyond the rockery, as if not considering Song Jianing's proposal at all.

Soon, Shuang'er led a carriage over, and the carriage stopped. Shuang'er ordered the coachman and the surrounding maids and eunuchs to retreat to the front yard, making sure that everyone had left. Guo Xiao hijacked Zhaozhao and walked towards the carriage step by step. When he arrived at the car, Guo Xiao motioned Liu Xi to sit in front of the car and act as the driver.

The little princess was in his hands, and Liu Xi had to listen.

Guo Xiao asked Song Jianing to hand over Brother You to Shuang'er and forced Song Jianing to get into the carriage.

Liu Xi immediately jumped down and stood in front of the princess and asked: "You hijacked the princess, why did you want the princess to get in the car?"

Guo Xiao smiled slightly, only looking at Song Jianing.

Song Jianing got on the car without hesitation, with her daughter in his hands. If possible, she would rather go to Liao with the gangster, at least accompany her daughter as a company, lest her daughter is alone and has no mother.

Liu Xi clenched his fists, stared at Guo Xiao fiercely, and sat back in front of the car with a calm face.

Guo Xiao warned Liu Xi and Shuang'er again: "If anyone walks out of the palace before sunset, they will wait for the princess's body to be collected."

Shuang'er hugged the ignorant Brother You, and burst into tears. Brother You kept staring at the stranger curiously, until he couldn't see his mother, and then he started to groan. Song Jianing heard the sound, opened the curtains, and saw his son. Song Jianing cried and asked both children: "Take good care of your brother. , Wait for the prince to come back..."

Before the words were finished, the carriage shook suddenly, but the gangster carried Zhaozhao into the carriage.

Song Jianing stared at her daughter closely, with her hands still raising the curtains.

"Let it go." Guo Xiao sat beside her and said coldly.

Song Jianing shook his hand and leaned forward to the window again, choking at his son outside. The carriage moved, and Shuang'er hugged Brother You and chased him, and Brother You struggled restlessly, crying loudly at the mother in the window.

"She follows one more step, and I will kill the princess."

A ruthless warning came from her ears, Song Jianing covered her mouth, crying and shook her head towards Shuang'er. The twins stopped in despair. Song Jianing stared at his son, suddenly someone pulled the curtain and put it down, and then a strong force came from his shoulder, pressing her and fell into the man's arms! Song Jianing tried to struggle, but the man's arms were as hard as iron. Song Jianing could only be clamped by his waist and tilted. In front of him was the daughter whose mouth was covered by the man.

Song Jianing forgot about her situation, forgot the iron arm around her waist, and only gently called her daughter: "Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao..."

She was crying, and her bright black and white apricot eyes were also raining. Song Jianing was wholeheartedly comforting her daughter. Without noticing, the man was closing his eyes and smelling the fragrance of her hair deeply. The left hand that restrained her spread out for a while and made a fist, as if As if hesitating to do something, the position of the palm was facing her.

The carriage finally came to the main entrance, and the people passing by saw that it was Father Liu Xi driving the carriage. They were only curious, but not suspicious. Liu Xi wanted to imply something, but when he thought of the condition that the Khitan people must not be chased before sunset, there is no difference between what he said at this time or not.

The carriage left the city from the North City Gate, and then followed Guo Xiao's instructions all the way to the north.

"I promise Zhaozhao not to cry, can I hold her for a while?" Soon after the carriage left the city, Song Jianing supported her body with one hand, raised her head slightly, and pleaded in a low voice. She lowered her eyes, her thin and dense eyelashes had long been wet with tears, and her face was pale, like the most delicate white peony. Just such a fateful look made people feel pity.

Guo Xiao hesitated for a moment, and finally let go of the hand covering Zhaozhao's mouth.

"Mother..." She cried with a cry, pitifully, but the voice didn't come out.

Song Jianing immediately hugged her daughter to the corner of the carriage, sat with her back facing Guo Xiao, lowered her head and kissed her daughter's head, and completely covered her daughter with her petite body. Zhaozhao made a joke, his little hand hugged his mother tightly, enough jokes, Zhaozhao secretly tilted his head, looked at the bad guy, and then whispered to his mother: "Mother, is he going to take me to see the father?"

If yes, she stopped crying, she missed her father so much and asked him to help her beat the bad guys.

Song Jianing pressed her daughter's wet face, and said for a long time: "Father will be back soon, Zhao Zhao will be able to see her father soon." She will definitely protect her daughter.

Zhao Zhao lay in her mother's arms, as long as the mother was there, she would not be afraid.

After all, Zhao Zhao cried and fell asleep. Song Jianing hugged her daughter and touched her little brow. Song Jianing discussed with the man behind him without looking back: "I married the prince at the age of fourteen. For five years, the prince was the only one by me. Everyone in the capital knew that the prince loved me very much. You threatened the prince with me, just like Zhao Zhao. Besides, Zhao Zhao is only a child, crying and making trouble on the road, and he will definitely give it to you. Trouble, if you promise me to change back to my daughter, I promise to follow you to Liao Country obediently and never cry."

"In the original saying, women are like clothes, the princess must not overestimate your weight in the heart of the king of life. The princess is dead, the king of life can marry another, such a beautiful and lovely daughter, but there is only one in front of him." Guo Xiao said ironically. What kind of love, a prince, how could he have been doting her alone, but because of the wind and rain in the capital in recent years, the Shouwang has no leisurely sentiment.

He refused to change. Song Jianing looked at his daughter. After a long time, she said softly: "Then you can take me away with me."

If the prince can save her, she lives with her daughter. If the prince can't help her, she will die with her daughter. In short, she will not leave her daughter behind.

"Wang Concubine!" Liu Xi's bitter voice came from outside the curtain.

Song Jianing has cried and been afraid. Now that the daughter is in her arms, and the little one needs her protection, Song Jianing is very calm, and whispered to Liu Xi: "We are here, life and death are unpredictable. If the father-in-law sees the prince, please be on your behalf. I told the prince that I could meet him and marry him in this life. It is worth it. If there is an afterlife, if the prince does not dislike him, I..."

"Shut up." Guo Xiaohan said.

Song Jianing turned his head slightly, turned his eyes around on his knees, and silently took it back, and continued: "If the prince does not give up, I would like to be his wife again."

Outside the car, Liu Xi raised his head, his eyes were sour, and Guo Xiao inside the car clenched his fists, jealous.

The carriage walked for about an hour, and Guo Xiao ordered Liu Xi to park the car outside a small village, and then retake Zhaozhao. Under Song Jianing's nervous gaze, he asked Liu Xi to come in.

Liu Xi quickly picked the curtain and entered, first to observe the situation of the princess and princess.

"Eat." Guo Xiao threw a pack of yellow paper to him.

Liu Xi picked up the paper bag and unfolded it. It was half a bag of white powder.

"Mongolian sweat medicine is enough for you to sleep until tomorrow morning." Guo Xiao directly threatened Zhaozhao's neck with a dagger.

Zhaozhao looked to his mother in fear.

Song Jianing repeatedly begged the man not to hurt his daughter. Liu Xi looked in his eyes and knew that there was no way to go. He immediately raised his head and poured half of the sweat medicine into his mouth. After eating, he knelt down to Song Jianing and kowtowed: "Liu Xi is incompetent and failed to protect the princess and princess. When the princess and princess return safely, Liu Xi will apologize with death."

Song Jianing could not cry.

Guo Xiao stared sharply at Liu Xi, making sure that Liu Xi did not play tricks to spit out Mongolian sweat medicine by knocking his head.

Liu Xi took too much medicine and gradually lost consciousness. Before he passed out completely, he still looked at the little princess guiltily.

Guo Xiao held Zhao Zhao to buckle Liu Xi's pulse, and then took out a veil from his cuff while Song Jianing was not paying attention, and tightly covered Zhao Zhao's mouth and nose.

"You let her go!" Song Jianing saw it and rushed forward, pulling the man's arm vigorously to take her daughter back.

"Menghan medicine." Guo Xiao stared at her.

Song Jianing was taken aback, looked at her daughter again, and slowly closed her eyes as expected. Guo Xiao gave her the sleeping Zhaozhao and ordered her not to cry. He jumped out of the carriage. Not long after, a carriage rushed from the village and finally stopped by the carriage of the Royal Palace. Two burly men like Guo Xiao jumped out of the car. Guo Xiao opened the curtain and pointed to the carriage opposite to let Song Jianing choose: "I can take you to Liao, or your daughter, you choose."

"You, did you agree?" Song Jianing asked incredulously.

Guo Xiao nodded.

Song Jianing laughed, crying and laughing. He picked up the sleeping daughter and kissed again. Finally, at Guo Xiao's urging, he slowly put her daughter next to Liu Xi. Just before getting off the car, Song Jianing suddenly remembered something and looked down. Ask the man standing in front of the car: "What do you plan to do with my daughter?"

Guo Xiao looked at her pale face and said, "My people will continue to drive north, staying in a county at night. When Liu Xi wakes up the next day, he will find the princess by his side."

Song Jianing hesitated, frowning and asked him: "Why should I believe you?"

"Do you have a choice?" Guo Xiao was no longer impatient, dragged her out of the cart and hugged her into his arms, turned around and jumped into the carriage opposite, and still refused to let go when he got into the cart. Song Jianing finally realized that it was wrong and struggled desperately in his arms. A petite woman, a lively woman, Guo Xiao only hugged her waist, let her beat her and let her scold him, until Song Jianing had no strength, he pressed her back and hugged the person in his arms, burying his head in her ears. On the side, the voice was hoarse: "An'an, it's me."

The familiar cold tone, the familiar voice, Song Jianing...like being struck by lightning.

~

Stiff all over, Song Jianing slowly raised her head.

Guo Xiao looked at her, looked at her horrified apricot eyes, and then removed the mask on his face bit by bit, revealing the stern face belonging to the elder son of the Guogong Mansion, because it hadn’t seen the sky for a long time, and that face was pale with ghosts. , Only a pair of deep eyes burst out with scorching heat, like a wolf, looking at the prey that has reached its mouth.

It's really Guo Xiao, it's really him!

Song Jianing was shocked at first, so shocked that he couldn't believe that Guo Xiao was still alive. He was obviously buried. His mother, wife, and younger brothers all cried so badly, and the man who was supposed to be lying in the coffin appeared in front of her again. She couldn't believe it, Guo Xiao kept his eyes fixed, hoping to see the joy that he was still alive on her face, even if it was a trace of joy.

But Song Jianing was not happy in his heart. Upon learning of Guo Xiao’s death, she shed tears for him, because she had a relationship with the Guo family for several years, because there was a sibling relationship between the two, but Guo Xiao was alive, he came to pester her and rob her again, To take her away from the prince, Song Jianing had a crazy hatred against Guo Xiao for the first time. That hatred was a hundred times stronger than the previous life Guo Xiao asked her from Liang Shao's side!

Why, why should he destroy her life time and time again, why should she be ruined in his hands for the rest of her life?

She hated it so much that she didn't even have tears.

The desire raging in Guo Xiao's body was also suppressed in her cold and hateful eyes, and at the same time, a trace of self-deprecation surged in her heart. What is he expecting? He had known for a long time that she would not be happy to meet him again without him in her heart. What he had to do was to keep her by his side and coax her slowly.

"I want you, you knew it long ago." In response to the hatred in her eyes, Guo Xiao whispered.

Song Jianing knew well, she also knew how Guo Xiao would want her, she remembered every scene in her previous life. When she was still a concubine of the Liang family who was devoted to living a loving life with Liang Shao, Guo Xiao and Liang Shao played with her like a singer and raised her as a plaything in captivity. They never asked whether she would be sad, what did she want What do you want.

"Let me go down, I have never seen you today." Song Jianing looked up at him, his eyes silent, as if looking at a dead person, "You let me go, whatever you do for the Liao country, I won't Tell your father and grandmother to make them believe that the elder son of the Guogong Mansion died heroically in the fight against Liao."

Guo Xiao clenched her hand and asked in a cold voice, "Do you think I have taken refuge in the Liao Kingdom?"

Song Jianing turned his head, expressionless.

Guo Xiao turned her face away, forced her to look at him, and then said word by word: "Before I set out on the expedition, I had decided to suspend and escape, but what I planned was on the battlefield, who expected the Liao State to attack the grain and grass. That fire, I There is nothing I can do, the grain was burned, and the East Route Army defeated, none of which has anything to do with me, Guo Xiao. I have a clear conscience."

Song Jianing pressed her lips tightly.

"I suspended my death for today and to take you away." The index finger stroked her delicate face and looked at her rosy and full lips. Guo Xiao's desire that had been suppressed for several years suddenly vented, he squeezed her tightly and bowed his head. Dear. Song Jianing struggled madly, pushing his shoulders and couldn't push away, and his hands were firmly grasped by him. In the chaos, he felt his lips hit her face, and the situation of his possession in the previous life suddenly came to mind. Song Jianing's heart was tight. The ground broke, and hit his head by instinct!

She just hit his nose. Guo Xiao inhaled and backed away. When he raised his eyes, he saw her teeth biting her lip and staring at him sullenly. Guo Xiao looked down and saw that her lips had been bitten and bloody. From my lips...

"Let go!" Guo Xiao grabbed her chin and forced her to loosen her teeth.

Song Jianing was forced to lift her neck, tears in her eyes, but refused to drop, staring at him in disgust and said: "I want to go back to Beijing, I don't want to die, but if you dare to touch me and you touch my mouth, I will be disabled. Open your mouth, you touch my face, I will ruin this face, you touch my person, I will ruin the whole body, until you never want to see me again, until you touch me, you yourself feel sick."

In Guo Xiao's hands in the previous life, there was nothing worth keeping. Liang Shao was unworthy and chastity was not enough to live, so she confessed her fate and accompany him to sleep and let him have fun. But in this life, she has a prince, and the prince relies on her to love her. Song Jianing would rather self-harm and commit suicide than let Guo Xiao take advantage.

"Do you hate me so?" Guo Xiao asked with a fist.

Song Jianing laughed, as if he heard a big joke. Then, under Guo Xiao's angry gaze, Song Jianing closed her smile and looked at him while crying and said: "Guo Xiao, you hated me first, hated me and my mother. Married to the Guo family, hate me for living better day by day, hate me for being favored by the prince and becoming a princess. You think I am not worthy to be a master, so you do everything possible to torture me, you live, make me uneasy, you die, I have to survive and continue torturing me... I also want to ask you, where am I sorry for you?"

She kept on tears, and they all fell into Guo Xiao's heart. Guo Xiao couldn't bear her saying so, she held the person in her arms again, closed her eyes and said bitterly: "An'an, I never hated you, I... you really can't see it. Come out? As early as my father took you home, as early as when I was teasing you with purple sweet potato balls, I liked you, but you became my sister, and I didn't dare to show it."

If it wasn't for his brother and sister status to block him, he would have told her when she was twelve or thirteen years old, where would he give Zhao Heng a chance.

Song Jianing didn't believe it, not a word, they weren't brothers and sisters in the previous life, but Guo Xiao didn't even give her a concubine's room or even the qualifications to live in the government office.

"You really like me, you shouldn't force me." Song Jianing said with a glimmer of hope.

Guo Xiao smiled lightly, opened his eyes, and said to the car window: "I don't force you, how can I be with you?"

The little hope that Song Jianing had just raised was completely cut off.

Guo Xiao has never liked her. He just coveted her body and appearance. He is a superior son. He does not allow the woman he likes to be snatched away by others, so he tries to get her. In the final analysis, what he wants to satisfy is his own selfish desires, likes, nothing more than a high-sounding name.

Song Jianing really didn't want to talk to him, but listening to the continuous rolling of wheels, Song Jianing was afraid, afraid that after she was taken away by Guo Xiao, she would never see her children at home, nor the prince who had not returned.

The body, which had been strained because of resistance, slowly relaxed. For the first time in this life, Song Jianing took the initiative to hug a man's waist, and his head obediently rested on his shoulders, seemingly attached. In this way, it was Guo Xiao's turn to stiffen up and looked at the woman who was snatched from his arms in disbelief.

Song Jianing's head turned towards him, and her voice sounded like a dream: "Big brother, do you know that when the news of your death reached the capital last year, grandmother's gray hair was crying all white?"

Guo Xiao's heart shrank sharply.

"I haven't seen my father crying, but he rarely laughed. The year before last he looked like he was still in his early thirties. Last year, when he came down, his father was obviously old. When he talked to Brother Mao, his eyes changed. It’s as if through Brother Mao, I saw other people. And Duanhui, she moved to the princess mansion, and since she went in, she has never left the house again..."

"Do you think that if you say that, I will let you go?" Guo Xiao slammed her shoulders, forced her to sit upright, and stared at her with flushed eyes: "An'an, you have become smarter, knowing that I am most afraid of hearing it. What, but don’t forget, I would rather let my family grieve and die, all for you! You said, I have given up so much energy to get you, may I turn around?"

Song Jianing's face was as white as paper, and tears rolled silently.

Guo Xiao smiled, with a grinning smile, destroying all her hopes word by word: "Even if I die, I won't let you go."

~

Shouwang Mansion.

As soon as the princess princess was kidnapped and taken away by the gangster, Shuang'er informed Mother Cen about the matter. Mother Cen and she were both old people by the wife, who came together to serve the princess. The two people trusted the most. Mother Cen came out of the palace and had experienced many things, but this was the first time she had encountered such a major event. She was so frightened that she fell into a chair and sweated profusely, but she couldn't think of a way. There are Khitan people hidden in the street outside. Whenever there is movement in the palace, the opponent will release arrows, which is tantamount to a reminder of the princess princess...

Moreover, when things got into trouble, the princess came back and her reputation was over. Who didn't know the beauty of the princess's birth? The beauty is taken captive, can she retreat all over?

Mother Cen was anxious and subconsciously felt that the fewer people who knew about it, the better, including the servants of the Shou Palace. The maids around the princess are all reliable. As for the front yard...

Mother Cen only invited the front yard steward to discuss it, but that was the confidant of the prince.

The steward heard that she was also in a cold sweat. After calming down, the steward whispered: "Later, I will arrange for a dark guard. After sunset, I will go out of the city to track down. In my surrounding area, if the speed is fast enough, I might be able to intercept it before the other party returns to Liaoning. On the side of the palace, it will be kept secret for the time being. It is only said that the princess is unwell and will not see guests for the time being.

Madam Cen glanced at the direction of the Guogong Mansion: "Madam over there..."

Guan Shi shook his head, his voice firmly said: "Everything waits for the king to decide."

At dusk, more than two dozen figures quietly left the Palace of Shouwang, and then left Beijing through the four gates. This is the dark guard of the Shou Palace, but the dark guard is not a god. Only when the lord gives an order, the dark guard will act. The princes and concubines in the house, they can't stare at them like a shadow, prying into the master's privacy.

As night fell, Guo Xiao's carriage stopped at a remote pier. Before getting off the car, Guo Xiao unfolded a cloak to put on Song Jianing: "It's cold outside."

Song Jianing avoided, turning his head.

Seeing her stubborn profile, Guo Xiao was not angry, he was already very satisfied to be so close to her.

"You wear it yourself, or I will hold you on board." Guo Xiao touched the top of her head with the thick cloak and got out of the car first.

Song Jianing glanced at the car door. She didn't know where it was, she could only hear the sound of gurgling water. Song Jianing turned around and quietly opened the curtains. The twilight outside the window was everywhere. There was a wilderness in the distance, and there was a long river in front of her. The cold night of the first month adds to the loneliness.

"An An An can't come out, waiting for me to come in and pick you up?"

Someone knocked on the door and urged in a low voice.

Song Jianing pursed her lips and put on a cloak indiscriminately. Just after she was put on, the curtain was opened by Guo Xiao. She tilted her head subconsciously and asked in a cold voice, "Where are you taking me?"

She shrank in the corner of the dim carriage, delicate and pitiful, the most moving.

Looking at the figure he thought about day and night, Guo Xiao couldn't help but let go of his voice: "The kingdom of abundance."