Chapter 51 - I
That night, Huo Yao went to Xie Zuo’s room and saw the figure of a tall man in the inner room through the gauze screen, and his eyes immediately became cold.
Xie Zuo had a bad smile on his face and held Huo Yao’s hands without explaining. Seeing that the anger on the general’s face was getting more and more obvious, he stepped forward and pushed him into the inner room.
That man was none other than Yuzhao!
No, it wasn’t Yuzhao.
Huo Yao looked at the man in pink brocade robe who looked exactly like Yuzhao.
Yuzhao was arrogant and always looked at others with a domineering attitude. He also liked luxury, and his hair was always meticulously tied up in a golden crown. The man in front of him was kind-hearted, with clear eyes, and his long hair was casually tied into a high ponytail. Except for the color of his clothing, which was too out of the ordinary, he didn’t have many luxurious accessories.
Huo Yao looked at the man, and the man also opened his eyes to observe Huo Yao. Then, he moved slowly and hid behind Xie Zuo.
Unfortunately, he was half a head taller than Xie Zuo, so the blocking effect was not very good.
“Princess Lin,” Huo Yao said lightly.
Xie Zuo applauded, “Awesome, really awesome.”
Princess Lin held Xie Zuo and smiled flatteringly at Huo Yao, “It was me. I’ve met the general.”
Huo Yao gave Xie Zuo a look, meaning to explain it well.
Xie Zuo pulled Princess Lin out, “Please explain for me quickly, or he will make trouble with me again!”
Princess Lin had heard of Huo Yao’s name before. He was the God of War and the great hero of Yunzhao Kingdom, but in Yuzhao Kingdom, they mentioned Huo Yao as a nightmare and the god of death, saying that Huo Yao had the miraculous effect of stopping children from crying at night.
Rumor had it that Huo Yao was the scariest man. When he appeared on the battlefield, he always wore black armor, had a green face, and had fangs. He was several feet tall and wielded a long axe. Wherever he passed, heads rolled down like a flood.
When Princess Lin found out for the first time that Xie Zuo’s sweetheart was Huo Yao, he was really shocked and worried. A beautiful person actually liked a beast. This was clearly against the norms.
The rumors were really misleading. The real Huo Yao was actually so handsome and tall. His brother Yunzhao was indeed a normal person!
In Princess Lin’s mind, Xie Zuo was already the top of the human race in terms of appearance and figure. She didn’t expect that Huo Yaoj was as good as him, and they were both beautiful in different ways. However, the two of them matched perfectly when they stood together, and neither could cover up the other’s light.
Princess Lin had never seen Xie Zuo show such sincere and unabashed love for anyone. Although Xie Zuo was very kind to him, Xie Zuo’s occasional indifference and cruelty to some people and also frightened him. His brother Yunzhao was a master who could kill people with a smile!
Xie Zuo was unhappy when he saw Princess Lin only staring at Huo Yao, “What are you looking at? Have you forgotten how to speak?”
Princess Lin came back to his senses and keenly noticed that Xie Zuo was jealous, and immediately raised his hands to show his innocence, “I don’t like men, and I don’t have any negative thoughts about you as a man.”
“Hmph!” Xie Zuo reluctantly forgave him, “Don’t be stunned, explain it to him! If I had known, I wouldn’t have made the oath in the first place. You are so unreliable.”
Princess Lin sighed, “It’s a long story, let’s have some food and drink and talk slowly.”
Xie Zuo gave an order, and wine and food were placed in the outside room, and the three of them sat around a table and chatted while eating.
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On a rainy night seventeen years ago, Queen Yuzhao went through all kinds of hardships and gave birth to two babies. Before she could be happy, the old maid quietly told her, “Queen, it’s a pair of twins, both boys!”
She almost fainted on the spot. She grabbed her old maid’s sleeve and gritted her teeth and said: “Seal the palace door and don’t allow the king to come in. Anyone who dares to leak the news will be… killed on the spot!”
The old maid nodded with tears in her eyes: “When the old slave sees it, I feel it wasn’t right so I immediately ordered others to leave. The palace door is now closed, and the king does not know that the queen has given birth.”
“Momo, thank you, thank you!” The queen burst into tears, “Where are the children? Let me take a look, let me see!”
The old maid took the two children over, unwrapped the swaddling clothes, and showed them to the queen.
The queen kissed this and touched that, her joy as a first-time mother mingling with great fear: Why two boys? If it was a boy and a girl, or even two girls! It would be better!
The Yuzhao royal family had always regarded twin brothers as unlucky. In the future, trouble was inevitable with twin brothers, leading to disputes and chaos that often-heralded decades of turmoil and decline for the country. Whenever twin brothers were born, the older one had to be kept, and the younger one buried in the ancestral grave as a sacrifice.
Of the two newly born babies, the elder brother had a bright yellow ribbon tied around his ankle, and the younger brother had a red ribbon tied around his ankle.