Chapter 6 — Hoang Thai Nu Tri Doanh

My eyes immediately turned red, almost instinctively, my body moved faster than my mind. One hand pulled down the stiff bow hanging on the wall! Withdraw name! Install the bow! Bang... The arrow's feathers tore through the air, firmly piercing the man's heart. 8 When the royal father and Bui Soc ran to the Eastern Palace, the royal brother was paralyzed in his chair, trembling like a sieve, his sharp voice cracking: "Father! Tieu Tri Doanh is crazy! She killed the Northern envoy! She still wants to kill her child! She is crazy! She is a crazy person!" My arrow was still firmly pointed towards him, the bowstring was tight, my fingers were tight until they turned white. Bui Soc ran to my side first. Seeing that I was not injured, he breathed a sigh of relief and gently held my bow hand: "Ah Doanh, let go." His father stood outside the palace gate, like a heavy mountain, pressing down on the clouds. His eyes swept across the wet hem of his brother's shirt, across the body of the great Northern man on earth, across the frightened maids clustered into a group, and finally fell on him. He looked at me for a long time, so long that the palace was suffocatingly silent. Then, the emperor laughed. His voice was not high-pitched, as if he was saying something very normal: "The arrow method was taught by me personally, A Doanh did not forget." Turning his head to look at the royal brother, the smile immediately disappeared: "Block the Eastern Palace, strictly guard the crown prince, without my orders, no one is allowed to visit." The royal brother's face was pale, he wanted to say something, but was frozen in place by his father's eyes, opening his mouth but not making a sound. His father didn't look at him anymore, just raised his chin at me: "A Doanh, follow me." Father didn't take me elsewhere, he took me directly to his royal study. The lights in the Royal Study Room were on all night, no one knew what we said. Early the next morning, the decree to oust the crown prince was announced. The entire royal court was surprised, because the emperor's father only had one son, the royal brother, and he was already old and had coughed up blood several times last night. "My body is not done. I thought, even if he is not close, at least... it is the blood of the Tieu family, this country that can barely be entrusted..." Before he finished speaking, he coughed again, tearing his heart and tearing his lungs. I looked at the person's pained appearance, his back bent, his face filled with indifference. Such a person is also given to me. When I was a child, the people who raised me on their pillows often exclaimed: "Ah Doanh is so smart, it would be great if he were a prince." When I heard it, I immediately lowered the medicine into your soup, giving it just a little at a time. If you said it once, I would give it once. That medicine works slowly, but is very damaging to the roots. Father said I was his smartest child, because he would never have a smarter child. When the royal brother was dragged out of the royal study by the guards, he struggled until his face turned red, fiercely glaring at me and scolding: "Tieu Tri Doanh! It's you! Your single father! You're not stupid, are you? You're planning on me!" I stood on the high platform, looking at his twisted face, suddenly remembering when I was very young. At that time, he was willing to let me sit on his neck, take me to Ngu Hoa Garden to pick strawberries, the strawberry juice dyed his newly sewn brocade shirt, he was not angry, just smiled and tapped my nose, calling me a greedy kitten. Later, my mother lost favor and told me and my royal brother to go outside the royal study to wait for my father. The emperor's father asked about his brother's homework. The prince hesitated and could not answer. I stood next to him, looked impatiently, and immediately continued to answer. The queen mother praised me as her little blessed star, turned around and used a ruler to hit the palm of the prince's hand, scolding him for being "ignorant", "useless", "not even my sister". From that day on, the prince no longer smiled at me. It wasn't until I drank the Duc Lady's sour apricot soup and became stupid, always falling down on the road, that he started to laugh at me, laughing at me for being a stupid princess. His scolding became more and more distant, I took out Bui Soc malt candy from my sleeve pocket, the sweetness spread from the tip of my tongue. The storm of the crown prince's death had not yet subsided, but the emperor's father issued an order again, appointing me the crown princess. After the edict was read, the court immediately exploded, filled with sounds of protest. Again qu

A few days later, the emperor ordained Bui Soc as his wife, choosing an auspicious day to get married. Bui Soc stepped out of the line, knelt on one knee to the ground, his voice was deep and strong: "God, Bui Soc, thank you! I will definitely use all my strength to support the princess, there will be no end to death!" His voice was like a needle pinning the ocean, causing some of the commotion to temporarily subside, but more underground currents were flowing. People in the palace looked at me with changed eyes, some with fear, some with fear. Tieu Lenh Uyen was the one who was most afraid. She rushed into the royal study room, knelt in front of her father, crying until she cried: "Father! My daughter wants to denounce the fifth emperor sister! She was jealous of Tu An Chi becoming close to me, but poisoned Tu An Chi! Now Tu An Chi is in a coma in the palace, as can be seen... it's not over!" Hearing this mournful cry, I had just entered the palace door. 9