A carnival atmosphere enveloped the entire desert oasis, where everyone, regardless of age or gender, sat around the bonfire. Everyone was singing, dancing and drinking wine. A whole fat sheep was strung on a big iron rod.

The cow dung charcoal fire was burning brightly, with drops of mutton fat dripping into the flames, and the aroma of meat overflowed.

When the night got dark, the drunken people returned to their tents to rest. Wei Duoyou was taken to a magnificent tent in a daze. After the people dispersed, he realized that his cousin Li Wei was sitting next to him.

Wei Duoyou tried his best to sit up straight on the bed, and then asked: "Li Wei, you ------ what's going on?"

Li Wei shyly bowed her head and said: "Cousin, do you still remember that there was a marriage contract between us? You promised my father--"

She lowered her head to stop talking. After a while, Wei Duoyou came to her side. She closed her eyes and waited. But there was no movement. Li Wei opened her eyes and saw Wei Duoyou.

Duoyou sat there with deep thoughts. She didn't know what to ask, so she had no choice but to sit on the other bed. Crickets chirped in the grass, but an awkward atmosphere flowed in the tent.

Li Wei finally couldn't help but asked: "Cousin, I heard that people in Zhou Dynasty attach great importance to a woman's chastity. Do you--do you dislike that I was once taken as a concubine by King Wuming?

"

Kui Duoyou shook his head violently and said: "No, that's not the case! Cousin, you have fallen to this point because of me. If I, Kui Duoyou, despise you because of this, then I will be worse than a pig or a dog!"

After hearing this, Li Wei's face turned red, and she asked even more shyly: "So, do you already have someone you like? Don't worry, I don't care about this. I want to get along with her like a sister, and don't let my cousin worry about it."

Wei Duoyou shook his head violently again and said: "No, I really don't. But cousin, I--I am an evil person. I have already harmed my uncle, and I can no longer harm you."

Li Wei refused to believe it at all. She said with a pale face and trembling: "Excuses! These are all excuses! You------you dislike me---I escaped from nowhere so easily."

, but you despise me------" She suddenly burst into tears, covered her face and ran out of the tent.

"Princess, princess! Where are you going? Princess--" The maid's urgent call came faintly from outside the tent.

After a moment, the curtain was opened, and the personal maid Ye Ye approached Kui Duoyou with an angry look on her face, and sternly scolded: "Why do you treat the princess like this? Do you know that she gave up the opportunity to be the queen of Wu Ending and insisted on coming here?

Suffering in the desert just to wait for you? But if you treat her like this, your conscience will be eaten by a dog? "

Wei Duoyou looked at her face, suddenly felt something in his heart, and asked, "Your name is Ye Zi, right?"

"Yeah? Is there anything wrong with my name?" Ye Zi was still angry.

"Do you have a younger brother named Ye Ji?"

Ye Zi was startled and asked: "I haven't received any news from my brother since I moved to the oasis. Why, do you have any news from my brother?"

Wei Duoyou lowered his head and took out a small cloth bag from his arms. Avoiding Ye Zi's hopeful eyes, he handed it over and said, "Ye Ji has been with me as a guard since he arrived in Weiguo. This time I am on an envoy.

He was assassinated in Guzhu, and he ----- was unfortunately killed. This is a lock of his hair. Before he died, he asked me to find his sister and return it with my own hands."

"Ye Ji------"

Wei Duoyou rode a horse and headed into the depths of the desert to find his cousin. Behind him was Ye Zi's heartbreaking cry. Step by step, he made up his mind: I, Wei Duoyou, am a disaster star who will only cause harm.

Cousin, we must find her, persuade her to come back, and never drag her down again.

The desert under the moonlight has faded away from the endless yellow color during the day. The silent sand dunes are set against the starry sky. The quartz of the gravel reflects a little bit of light under the moonlight. There are no crickets chirping in the grassland here, only the cold wind howls. Far away in the horizon

A wolf howled was heard, and the horse under Wei Duoyou snorted nervously. The oasis behind him was completely covered by sand hills. When he urged the horse to climb over a sand dune, two rows of horse hooves were left above the sand.

The mark faces the cold moonlight.

Finally, in a valley surrounded by three stacked sand mountains, Wei Duoyou found Li Wei. She was sitting there, with clusters of camel thorns weaving their hard branches into a barrier, silently guarding her.

The moonlight flowing like a waterfall made Li Wei's figure look particularly graceful. She was looking up at the moon and crying: "------Since I met my cousin when I was fifteen years old, I have always liked him, every year on the grassland.

Waiting for him. If someone likes me, I can only be blind, deaf, and stupid just to wait for him. But now he is finally back, but he doesn’t want me anymore! I know he dislikes me----

--Woooooo------"

Wei Duoyou walked gently behind her: "I'm sorry, Li Wei. I really don't want to hurt you------"

Li Kai turned her back to him, shrugged her shoulders and wiped away her tears, but she didn't cry out and didn't let him hear her. Wei Duoyou admired in her heart: What a good girl with backbone!

He sat down cross-legged next to Li Wei and asked softly: "Do you remember Ye Ji, right? It was you who sent him to Chaoge to deliver my message?"

Li Wei's eyes were a little confused: "Remember! How is he now?"

"Dead!" Wei Duoyou ignored Li Wei's shocked eyes, took out a sheepskin wine bag from the saddle, and took a sip of horse milk wine: "Li Wei, although we are cousins, we are not the same.

Growing up, you don’t know how I lived these years------"

Then, he briefly recounted his experiences in the past few years. Especially after leaving Haojing, he recounted the assassinations in Huadi and Guzhu in detail. Li Wei gradually stopped sobbing as he talked.

.

"In short, I am a natural disaster star. Wherever I go, I will bring misfortune and disaster to the people around me. How can a person like me marry and have children? I have already killed my uncle, and I can't do it anymore.

I'm dragging you down." Finally, Wei Duoyou concluded.

"I'm not afraid!" Li Kui shouted: "When Kui Nu is destroyed, you will be the new king of our Kui Rong tribe. This is what my father had asked before his death. Let's stay on the grassland and live together. Who dares to make irresponsible remarks?

, I will cut off whose tongue!”

"Li Wei!" Wei Duoyou felt hot in his heart, but he still interrupted her cruelly: "Listen to me! Although my mother is a Rong, I grew up in Weiguo after all, and I have the surname Ji on my body.

Blood. I ------ will always go back to the Zhou people. In this battle of Chaoge, how many Rong knights died under my sword, even though Rong Di invaded the defense first.

, but after all--in the eyes of the grassland people, I, Kui Duoyou, am a traitor, and there is no place for me here."

He sighed and said: "In the eyes of the Rong people, I am a Weiguo bastard; in the eyes of the Zhou people, I am an alien from Rong and Di - Li Wei. You will never understand this feeling!"

His voice was extremely sad, which made Li Wei's heart tighten. She instinctively reacted: "No! I can go to the Zhou people with you, and I will go wherever you go. Isn't that okay?"

"Li Wei," Wei Duoyou said with a serious expression: "You have never been to the Central Plains, don't you understand what kind of life the women of Zhou people live? You won't get used to it. I ------ don't want you to repeat

Following my mother's footsteps."

Speaking of this, both of them felt infinite bitterness in their hearts. After a long time, they heard Li Wei whisper: "Cousin, I understand. We will be good brothers and sisters all our lives." The tone was bleak, and Wei Duoyou said

There was infinite pain in his heart, and he couldn't even speak. He just nodded lightly.
Chapter completed!