Chapter 59 two

In the 822nd year of the Muslim calendar (about 1419), Shahru once again conscripted Ajaer to worship the exhibition, and fought fiercely with Yu Sufu outside the city of Tbilisi.In this battle, both sides will win or lose.In November of the following year, perhaps God was tired of this protracted war, Yu Su died of a sudden illness overnight, Shah Ru took the opportunity to defeat the army of the Black Sheep Dynasty.Several sons of Yu Sufu narrowly escaped death and retreated to Western Persia to recruit troops to continue to fight against Shahru. The war continued intermittently. This situation continued until the Black Sheep Dynasty was destroyed by the White Sheep Dynasty. Until the signing of the peace treaty with the Aries Dynasty.

Western Persia has been determined to break away from the rule of the Timur Empire. Nevertheless, the empire is still showing prosperity and prosperity under the governance of Shah Rukh. The still vast empire territory involved too much energy for Shah Rugh, and as Ulugh Beg grew from a handsome boy to a diligent and thoughtful young man, Shah Ruh began to consider father and son to rule the empire together. Everything came to fruition soon, and Shah Rugh was going back to Harleigh, while Ulugh Beg had to stay in Samarkand.Before leaving, Shahru summoned me, and he said to me: "Ceccia, I hope you can go to Harleh with me."

I answered him, "No, I want to stay, in Cecia Cave. I made Cecia Cave a home for me and the princess, and I want to be with her." Shahru looked at me for a long time.It took him a while to ask slowly, "May I take a look at your Cecia cave?" "I was just about to ask you to come." "Then, I'll postpone the trip for a few days." I replied: "Okay. Tomorrow, I will wait for you at Sethia Cave." As expected, Shaharu postponed the trip by five days as agreed with me.Early the next morning, he appeared in front of my cave before dawn. He left all his attendants outside the cave, and Suo Du invited him into the cave.This time, if it wasn't for Suo Du's leadership, it would not be easy for them to find Cecia Cave smoothly.

In the cave, he saw the plaque and the incense burner made by me.Aya fragrant cakes are burned in the censer, and the aroma is always elegant.He knew, I was right, I really made Cecia Cave my home with the princess.In this home he is a most welcome guest to us. I asked him to sit down and brought him silver fruit bread. The freshly baked silver fruit bread exudes an unbelievably rich fruity aroma. I got up early and baked the bread myself. I want Shaharu to eat the freshly baked bread once.Of course Shaharu had eaten silver fruit bread which was famous in court for its unique flavor, but even his father, the great Timur King, was not lucky enough to have bread like this made from the spring water of the Holy Maiden Spring. tasted.

I asked Shaharu to sit on the stone chair outside the cave, and put the steaming bread and nut tea on the stone table with my own hands like a courteous housewife. The air in the mountains was a bit chilly, so I specially put on a silver-gray cloak embroidered with crabapple flowers on the hem for Shaharu, and put a cotton-lined cushion embroidered with crabapple flowers on the stone chair, and spread it on the stone table. A piece of blue velvet also embroidered with crabapple flowers. Whether cushions, tablecloths or capes, I originally prepared them for the princess.In the last month of the princess's life, her body became weaker and weaker, so whenever I took her to Cecia Cave, I took care that she would enjoy the fresh air without being affected by the dampness of the mountains. Invasion of air.

Of course, springs and caves have existed for a long time, even if they have no names, they have existed quietly for an unknown number of years.However, no one had ever discovered them before me, and I was the first to discover them, and it took nearly a decade to transform them into what is now Sethia's Cave and Virgin's Spring.Also, I carefully built a medicine pool beside the Saintess Spring.It can be said that Cecia Cave is the most proud masterpiece in my life. I have turned this hidden place that no one has set foot in into a resting place that even gods would envy. I remember that after the construction of Sethia Cave was completed, I asked King Timur to give the princess Sethia Cave and the Holy Maiden Spring.King Timur generously agreed without asking any further questions. In his royal decree, he clearly stipulated that no one, no matter whether princes, nobles or ordinary people, is not allowed to enter Sisi without the king's order or without the invitation of the master. Ya Dong.I don't know, but wherever Timur's horseshoes pass, he will be regarded as the incarnation of the devil by many people, but in my heart, he is always a generous monarch, just like he was a hero in the forest He would give all the cattle and sheep he plundered to his subordinates and people. Generosity seems to be the best nature he was born with.

Another thing that reassures me is that even without Wang Ling, there are very few people who can find Cecia's cave.I think it must be because Changshengtian didn't want the princess to be disturbed too much by the mortal world, so he deliberately used layers of rocks and dense trees to hide the way into Cecia's Cave.I heard from Suo Du that those who want to enter Cecia Cave because of their reputation will often get lost near the medicine pond or the entrance of the cave. Cecia Cave and Saintess Spring may be in front of someone at that time, but The man just turned a blind eye.I firmly believe in Suodu's statement, and one thing can be proved, none of the artisans who built the medicine pool and cave for me were able to find it again after they left Cecia Cave.

Although King Timur would eat delicious silver fruit bread every year and drink green fruit wine brewed from unique green fruits and sweet spring water in the mountains, he did not have the opportunity to become Sisi until his death. Ya Dong's guest.Of course, at that time the princess had to take care of Ulugh Beg, and she would only live in Sethia Cave for a certain period of time every year.For the princess, the days in the mountains are like vacations, so every time she invites some female relatives to go with her, the most invited one is naturally the queen, which makes the queen very lucky to heal her disease in the medicine pond. Heart palpitations.Now, the princess has been buried in the jungle behind Sethia's cave, and I buried her alone, as she asked in her lifetime.I have long decided to spend my whole life with her and never leave her side.

I sat down across from Shahru and looked at him.While drinking the nut tea, Shaharu slowly broke the bread into small pieces and put them into his mouth.I didn't take his tsk-tsk admiration to heart at all. How could he hide it from me? His cheerful expression could not conceal the loneliness in his eyes.Yes, at the moment of parting, his happiness was for me to see.As a guest, he has to show his joy at the host's hospitality.However, I am afraid that at this time he himself does not know what he is drinking or eating. Perhaps this is what I admire about Shahru.In the process of fighting for the throne, he unexpectedly showed forbearance and tenacity. He defeated the hard-edged Khalil, Omar and Pi Er with the strategy of keeping a low profile and defeating each other. The unclaimed throne.

From a prince to a king, it does mean a change of identity personally, but I know Shah Ruh, who is in charge of the huge Timur Empire, and it is impossible for a Shah Ruh who became a king to return to the Shah Ruh when he was a prince .The only constant is his love.Shah Ru has been in love with a woman all his life, even if there are vicissitudes of life and Yin and Yang are separated, he can't change his feelings of first love. Secretly cherished love, eternal heartache and happiness, who else in the world is worthy of such infatuated love except Princess Oela! Shah Ruh's teacup was empty, I refilled it for him, and he asked me, "Why don't you drink it?"

I lightly touched the back of his hand with my fingers and replied, "I want to watch you drink." He smiled and put my hand in his, which was warm and moist. "It's nice that you're still the same as when you were a child." "Really? Why do I feel that I am old." "No. In my eyes, you are still the same as when you were fourteen." At the age of fourteen, I gave myself to the Shah Ruh.The maiden's flower quietly blooming under his body is my pride and a secret between me and him. "Shaharu." I called softly. "what?" "Live well." "Are you worried about this?" "yes." "You're the only one who understands me." "yes." "do not worry." "is it okay?" "Yes. Ouyila also told me." "So you don't forget, do you?" "Yes. In order to help me, she endured too much fright. Now, I have won the throne as she hoped. If I can't do it, how can I be worthy of her!" "You said...can't do...what?" "Be a good monarch, manage the country left to me by King Timur, and make it stronger. This is Ouela's hope for me. Also, I want to live and use my eyes to see the sky for her Floating clouds, use my nose to breathe the clear air for her, use my ears to listen to the wonderful music for her, and use my mouth to taste the delicious food for her. I know that as long as I live, she will live. Only On the day when I close my eyes forever, I will be able to leave with her with a clear conscience." Tears slowly fell from my eyes, and then dripped onto Shahru's hand that was holding me.At this moment, what else do I have to worry about?Shaharu is intelligent by nature, he understands the princess better than anyone else, understands the princess' love and expectation for him.Shah Ruh was never afraid to do anything for the princess.And me, why not!I even have a premonition that the princess left early just to transfer her lifespan to my healthier body than ordinary people, so I will live as long as two people. Shahru has been watching me silently.When I stopped crying, Shah Ru gently wiped away the tears on my face with his hand that was a little rough from holding the rein all the year round.We stared at each other, our eyes revealed our love for each other without any scruples, and we were still so close. In this world, I am afraid that no one would regard each other as the closest confidant like us. "Cessia," Shah Ru put my hand into his palm again, "do you know, no matter where I am, I will always miss you like now." "I understand. Shah Ruh, I love you and that will never change." "Me too. I will never forget that day, that day, you performed a miracle." "Yes, I haven't forgotten either. You may not know how proud I was when you wrote to tell us the news of the concubine's pregnancy. I attribute all the miracles to myself." "You can, that's what it is. But Cecia..." "What do you want to say?" "Is it because of this that you rejected Ayilai?" "no." "Really?" "Really. You and Ayilai, you occupy different positions in my heart. The love I have for Ayilai is a real relationship between a man and a woman. The hope I entrusted to a man, then this man must be Ayi Lai." "But I heard you rejected him again." "I have hesitated and contradicted, but I still can't decide whether I can change myself for him. This change includes the beliefs I insist on and the way of life I am accustomed to. Therefore, if I cannot change myself for him, I will It means that I can’t love him wholeheartedly. If I can’t love him wholeheartedly, love will lose the meaning of equality it should have. Even if Ayilai willingly accepts this kind of unequal love, I still can’t do it. To the point of handing over to him a version of myself with a flaw in my heart. I can’t do that, I can’t. No regrets are fair to Aylai, whom I love deeply.” "I don't quite understand what you mean, but it's really a pity." "It's nothing, wait for the next life." "An afterlife?" "Yes, if there is an afterlife, I hope to meet him again." "But I really don't want to meet Oeira in the next life." "why?" "If I put my hope in the next life, I'm afraid I don't love her enough in this life." I met Shahru's eyes.For a while, I just felt my heart beating and I couldn't speak.Shaharu's infatuation made me not know what to say. For a man who loves so deeply that I will never forget it, and who I will never forget in my life and death, I still feel that I don’t love enough. For such a man, what kind of words can I use to express my admiration and love for him? After refreshments, Sodu came to invite Shahru to change into the bath with a light blue cotton bathrobe and bath towel.The collar of the bathrobe and the four corners of the bath towel are embroidered with beautiful patterns of crabapple flowers as usual.Many years ago, when I was a child, the princess got a gouache painting by chance, a picture of a colorful crabapple. At that time, her expression was so excited, she told me that crabapple flower was her mother's favorite flower during her lifetime. A kind of flower, therefore, she has always regarded the crabapple flower as her mother's flower in her heart.Because of this, I embroidered patterns of crabapple flowers on the cloak, cushions, tablecloths, pajamas, bathrobes and bath towels prepared for her. I think that when the princess is accompanied by crabapple flowers, she will definitely feel like a princess. In the warm embrace of mother. Yes, how could I casually let others, including myself, use what Princess Oeira used?Shaharu is the only exception.Princess Oeira has passed away, and I hope that the pattern of crabapple flowers can also bring some comfort to Shaharu's lonely heart. It will take at least an hour for Shaharu to take the medicinal bath, and he will be hungry by then, so I have to make lunch in advance.I set up an iron pot and iron rack not far from where Shaharu had breakfast. I don’t have to worry about what is cooking in the iron pot. I just need to keep turning the beef shank on the iron rack. Grilled beef shank, this is Shaharu's favorite food. The troublesome thing is that the strips of meat must be marinated properly in advance.When Shahru lived with us, whenever I made him a roti, he would say it felt like a festival. In addition to roast beef shank and stewed food in an iron pan, I also specially prepared green fruit wine for Shaharu.In fact, this is the only green fruit wine left in the world. In the third spring after I discovered the Holy Water Spring and Cecia's Cave, the green fruit tree that had existed for an unknown number of years hung down its slender green branches and ceased to bloom or bear fruit.At the same time, the two unknown big trees next to it seemed to be full of small yellow-pink flowers overnight, and surprisingly produced oval-shaped fruits. Summer passed, and the fruit was the size of a pear. Soon, the green color on the peel faded little by little, and finally turned into a beautiful silver-gray.I couldn't explain the secrets endowed by heaven and earth. I was amazed and named the two trees "Silver Fruit Tree". Since then, the Silver Fruit Tree has become the most beautiful scenery by the Saintess Spring. When late autumn came and the silver fruit on the silver fruit tree was fully ripe, I picked one of its fruits and tasted one. I found that the ripe silver fruit was completely different from the green fruit, and its pulp tasted a bit like fried. Walnut, and the taste is as sweet and sour as fresh fruit, which is delicious on the lips and teeth.I almost gave up at that time and place the idea of ​​using it instead of green fruit to make wine. Instead, I made a bold experiment, grinding its fruit into powder, and making bread.It was this attempt that made silver fruit bread replace green fruit wine as the most unique and precious flavor in the Timur court. Now let's go back to the green fruit wine.I remember the first time I presented the brewed green fruit wine to King Timur, I deliberately left two jars of green fruit wine marked with my name and Ayilai's name respectively and buried them in the ground next to the green fruit tree.By the time Shah Ruth officially came to the throne, the two jars of wine had been buried in the ground for more than ten years.At the grand banquet held after Shah Ruth ascended the throne, I sent a jug of wine marked with my name into the palace. When the jug was unsealed, almost everyone was intoxicated by its wonderful mellow aroma. Now this altar of green fruit wine marked with Aylai's name has added a few flavors of precious medicinal materials brought back by Ayilei from the Ming Dynasty. It may not be as delicious as pure green fruit wine. I am not mistaken, I asked a famous court doctor to appraise the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials, and let him taste the medicinal wine. He said that this kind of wine combines the nutrition and medicinal properties of the green fruit, and it can be called wine. It is a rare product, and drinking it regularly will definitely play a role in prolonging life.It is precisely because "Ayilei Green Fruit Wine" is so rare that I have carefully kept it until now. When Shahru and I are about to part, I will give it to Shahru as a gift. I just brought the roasted beef shank to the stone table and poured green fruit wine when Shaharu came back. He hadn't changed his nightgown yet, and his every move seemed leisurely and cheerful.This is because people's whole body will be extremely relaxed after soaking in the medicine pool, and it looks like they just woke up from a wonderful dream. Thirsty and hungry, Shaharu couldn't wait to drink down a glass of green fruit wine, and then elegantly began to eat the roasted beef shank.He praised me for getting better at grilling meat, I just laughed but didn't answer, because he was too hungry, so he naturally had such an illusion. Shaharu drank a few glasses of cider and asked me to replace him with kumiss.Green fruit wine is too precious, he is reluctant to drink more.However, the medicine in the green fruit wine and the burial of more than ten years have doubled the effect of the wine. Although Shaharu only drank five or six glasses of wine, he looked like he had drunk a lot of wine, and his eyes were a bit blurry. Reddened and chattering. He recalled many interesting things when we were young, even the little things like the princess peeled the orange and gave it to me first.He said that at that time, he felt that the princess was very eccentric, and she was worried about me for almost a whole day.My role naturally changed from an attentive housewife to a pampering mother. No matter what Shahru said, I listened quietly and laughed quietly. Later, I lifted the pot and served a yogurt and carrot soup.Shaharu stared at this long-lost dish in astonishment, and the heat caught his eyes, and his eloquence stopped abruptly. I forked a piece of carrot and placed it on the china plate in front of Shahru.Shaharu slowly chewed the unique taste of yogurt and carrots. Suddenly, he covered his eyes with his hands, put his head on the stone table, and remained motionless.After a long time, his shoulders twitched violently. Shah Ruh stayed in Sethia Cave for five days, and on the morning of the sixth day, he bid me farewell. I sent him on the mountain road out of the mountain. He looked at me and smiled: "Cesia, I want to ask you one thing." "what?" "Two months, no more than three months. You can stay in Harleigh for a few days and let me talk to you. In this world, the only ones she can leave for me are you and Ulugh Beg. " "I understand. I will." I watched Shaharu leave, his unable to straighten his back was full of melancholy.He would have been a benevolent monarch, but as a lover he ceased to exist the moment the princess departed. He said that he would love his country with the loneliness that dances with the wind. He said that when he lost his love. He also said that he wants to live well when one of his hearts is dead.