Chapter 32 two

At noon the next day, Toke Khan sent a bodyguard, and for the first time ever, he asked me to join him when he summoned the princess.His sudden kindness was so bewildering, but the princess was not surprised at all, and I even saw a look of joy cross her face. A bigger surprise than this was that we met Shahru and Nuriddin in Tok Khan's big tent. Shaharu was much thinner than when we were first imprisoned, his cheeks and eye sockets were sunken, and the eye sockets were also darkened.I can imagine, during these days, how worried he was about Princess Oeira, how he could not sleep or eat.

Of course, I was one of the people he missed.Anyway, we grew up together with the princess and have a deep friendship with each other. The princess glanced at Shahru and Nuriddin before walking towards the seat set up specially for her by Tok Khan.Her concerned eyes met Shaharu's worried eyes, they didn't say anything, they had already told each other what they wanted to say. When Toke Khan saw the princess, a smile appeared on his face.Obviously, this is a kind of heartfelt pleasure. "Oela, please sit down." He actually called the princess "Ouyila"!I noticed that Shaharu's brows were wrinkled, and his eyes were a little impatient.If the princess hadn't turned her head and smiled at him as she sat down, he might not even have the patience to listen to Tokhan's nonsense anymore.

Tok Khan didn't pay attention to Shaharu's anger at all, he only had the princess in his eyes. "Ouela, what a pity." He stared at the princess and said word by word.His words baffled me. For his inexplicability, the princess responded gently: "Khan, we have been talking these days, and I sincerely hope that you can consider what I have said to you and end this war as soon as possible. Be a good Lord, govern your khanate well." "I still say the same thing, some things are beyond my control, and some things... for me, I can only follow the situation. I have signed a peace treaty with King Timur, and he withdrew to Samarkand. Release you."

"I know that you will keep your promises to each other." "However, Ouela..." "what?" "Do you have to go back? You can also regard the Golden Horde as your own home." "I don't have a home for a long time. Now, wherever my children are, that's my home." "Oela!" "Khan, don't persuade me any more. That's all I want." "Okay, Ouyila, this time I respect your wish and let you go. But if next time, yes, next time, if you still appear in front of me, I will take it as Changshengtian's will , I will never let you go again. Do you understand?"

"I see." "Oela, I will never forget you." "thank you." Toke Khan waved his hand to signal the beginning of the banquet.The maids filed in and put roasted mutton, two kinds of grits, butter, wine and fruit in front of us, and the musicians played music.Everything was carried out according to the banquet specifications and procedures of King Timur. The difference was that such a sumptuous banquet was only for a few of us, and no one else was invited by Tokhan.Toke Khan still remembered that he had prepared kumiss for the princess, and he offered the princess first.

The princess drank the wine in the glass. Toke Khan respected Shahru again, but Shahhru didn't express anything. "Shaharu, don't you want to say something to me? Since you entered my sweat tent, you seem to have become dumb. Are you afraid that what you say is inappropriate and will anger me?" Tok Khan did not Minding Shaharu's rudeness, he raised his glass and sneered at Shaharu. Shahru glared at him. "Yes." After a moment, he answered word by word. "But you must have a drink for my kindness." "I never drink the wine toasted by villains!"

Toke Khan threw the wine glass in front of Shaharu, the wine splashed on Shaharu's face, and the atmosphere in the sweat tent suddenly became tense. "Shaharu, I advise you not to toast or eat fine wine." Shaharu sneered and didn't bother to answer. "It seems that you haven't stayed in my Golden Horde enough. If that's the case, I'll let you stay longer." "Khan." The princess exclaimed in surprise. "Oela, this is a matter between me and Shaharu, don't worry about it." "Khan please calm down, Shahru is still a child."

"Child? I think, if he hadn't followed his father to fight this battle, he would have married a wife and had children? No, I remembered wrongly. Shahru should have married once, although he was just A silly little boy whom I should consider a man even though the girl who married him died not long after." "Khan, please forgive Shahru. I know, he didn't mean to be rude to you..." Shaharu interrupted the princess in a rough voice: "Princess, don't ask him. He is just a poisonous snake that my father raised by mistake." This metaphor completely angered Tok Khan, he slammed the table hard and shouted, "Come here!"

The servants came in.The princess stood up. "Drag this little bastard to me and hang him! Huh, I want to send his head back to Samarkand, let King Timur come to me for revenge, there will be such a day between me and King Timur sooner or later , either he dies, or I die." The attendant stepped forward and grabbed Shaharu's arm, but Shaharu's resistance was useless. "Sweat! Shaharu!" Seeing that Shaharu was about to be sweated by the attendants, the princess's face suddenly lost all color. She staggered and fell into the arms of Tuke Khan. "Oela!" This was the exclamation of Toke Khan.

"Princess! Princess!" Shahru and I yelled at the same time, our voices were full of the same panic, the same sadness.Shaharu tried to shake off the attendant's hand, but failed. In fact, sudden attacks of headaches are an old problem for the princess, but Shahru and I have never seen her attack as scary as this time. Tok Khan hugged the princess tightly in his arms, eagerly calling her name.The princess came back to life slowly. Although her face was still as pale as snow, she didn't care about it. She just begged Toke Khan in a weak voice: "Khan, I beg you. Please!"

Tok Khan understood what she meant, and made a gesture to ask the attendants to let go of Shahru.Shah Ru took a few steps back, and stopped in place again.He stared at Princess Oeira in pain, and the princess's weakness completely calmed down his mind. Toke Khan ordered his attendants to invite the most famous doctor in the Golden Horde, but the princess stopped him gently.I gave the princess a pill, and after a while, a tinge of blood gradually appeared on her face.I always carry pills with me that can treat her headaches. I heard from her that a lama in Tibet prepared the pills for her and they worked very well. When she left Tibet, the lama gave her the prescription.The color of the pills is bright red, like red gemstones.I could feel Toke Khan's concern for the princess. He carried the princess to his own carved wooden bed covered with luxurious bedspread in the sweat tent, and then ordered the maid to remove the banquet. Perhaps it was because Tok Khan was by the princess' side, but Shah Ruh never came over. Toke Khan signaled all the people to wait outside Khan's tent. I refused to leave the princess, so he let me stay. "Ouela, are you better?" He held the princess's hands in front of his chest and asked with concern. The princess told Tuke Khan that this was an old problem.During the process of her escape, she suffered from a serious illness, and after recovering from the illness, she fell to this difficult root cause.She is like a good person when she is fine, but once the disease flares up, she will have a splitting headache. She has seen many doctors and tried many medicines, but the only way is to take a pill of Tibetan medicine, and then take a good rest, and she will be fine. . "Really?" Toke Khan was still worried. "Really, I'm better." "Ouyila, you look like this, why don't you just stay with me for a few more days." "It's okay, we must be on the road tomorrow." "Are you really not willing to stay with me for one more day?" "No, Big Khan. I understand your kindness, but I really don't worry about Shahru. He is still a child, and he doesn't know how to control some things. Big Khan, Shah Ruh is taken care of by me, for you and His father's peace treaty, I hope to bring him back to Samarkand sooner." "Oela, I..." "Khan, please send us away tomorrow." Tok Khan hesitated for a moment.Although a bit reluctant, he nodded. Princess Oeira smiled softly at him.At that moment, I felt that Tok Khan's eyes seemed a little moist.I even heard him say such a sentence in his heart: Oela, what a pity, I am not destined to be with you in this life, and I hope to be with you in the next life. In my impression, Tokhan was a cruel and capricious monarch, but in front of the princess, he became a kind, considerate and tender man. What a sharp contrast. In the evening, the princess regained some energy and insisted on taking me back to the small tent where we lived for more than ten days, saying that I needed to pack up my things.I know that she dragged her sick body away just because she didn't want to spend the night in the sweat tent. If she stayed in the sweat tent, even if I was by her side, it would still cast a shadow over her innocence.She didn't particularly care about her own reputation, but she couldn't help but care about Shahru's feelings. Worry and happiness were intertwined, and I finally fell asleep very late.In my dream, I saw the sun rise again, and Princess Oeira, Shahru, Nuriddin and I finally set foot on our way back... When I woke up, my dream became reality.