The Second Prince rode against the wind and asked, "Why are you suddenly so melancholy?" Ji Feiyu replied indifferently, "I just looked at the boundless world and thought of many things."
When the Second Prince rode with Ji Feiyu, he usually let Jingyun walk slowly or trot, never galloping at full speed. At this moment, they were trotting along with the main force of the Beihan soldiers. Looking at the slowly passing street views, the Second Prince said, "Actually, you know the man who took you away, right? The way he looked at you was different."
Ji Feiyu sat steadily on the saddle and smiled faintly. "Nothing can be hidden from the Second Prince. I do have some entanglements with him, but they are all old things from the past."
The Second Prince said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. The way he looked at you was the same as the way the Khan looked at my mother."
Ji Feiyu raised her eyebrows. "Then tell me what kind of look it is. Maybe I'm just stupid and didn't see anything in his eyes."
The Second Prince then laughed. "How can you say you're stupid? It's just that the person involved is often confused. How about this? I'll tell you the story of my mother."
Ji Feiyu's heart was feeling empty. Hearing that there was a story to listen to, she was naturally willing. She said, "Okay."
The Second Prince slowed Jingyun down to a slow walk and began to tell the story of his mother.
"My mother actually had a child before she met my father." Ji Feiyu was slightly surprised when she heard this, but the Second Prince looked normal and continued, "At that time, my father was already the Khan of Beihan, but he still fell in love with her. My father said that the women from Dayong were different from those in Beihan. They were always sentimental, gentle, and amorous.
"At that time, my mother was being chased and killed. My father took her to Beihan and married her against all odds. But my mother was not happy. She missed her child very much.
"Because of my father's favor for my mother, the Khatun was dissatisfied. The Khatun began to torture her, so she had the idea of leaving. In order to keep her, my father made her pregnant with me. My mother began to deal with the Khatun to protect me, but unfortunately, she still fell victim to the plot.
"Later, I was born. On the day I was born, there was a sky fire on the grassland. Everyone said I was a symbol of disaster. They said my father shouldn't have married a woman from Dayong as a concubine. My father was very painful because of this. He cruelly separated me from my mother. That's when my father and mother gradually drifted apart.
"When I grew up, one day I climbed over the wall secretly to see my mother. But as soon as I climbed onto the wall, I saw my father standing in my mother's yard, looking at my mother's shadow reflected in the window with that kind of look. He stood there all the time but never went in. From that moment on, I knew that my father didn't dislike me because he disliked my mother. Instead, he thought it was because of me that he and my mother became like this."
After the Second Prince finished the story, his eyes were filled with a layer of mist. He blinked quickly and let the mist dry.
Ji Feiyu felt even more melancholy after hearing this story. She unconsciously said, "But your mother still gave birth to you."
The Second Prince said, "Sometimes, I even wish I had never been born. If I hadn't been born, I wouldn't have had to go through so much pain."
Ji Feiyu said, "But life is full of suffering. Who can escape it? I'm really unhappy today. Why don't the Second Prince take me to drink again?"
"Drink?" The Second Prince was stunned for a moment and then laughed. "There's no need to drink. But there's something I've always wanted to take you to do but never had the chance. How about we do it tonight?"
"What?" Ji Feiyu was a little confused. Then she felt the Second Prince stop Jingyun. The Second Prince dismounted and handed the reins to Ji Feiyu. Then he walked up to another cavalry officer. He said something to him in the Beihan language, and the officer dismounted and handed the reins to the Second Prince.
"What's this?" Ji Feiyu looked at him curiously.
The Second Prince smiled at her, mounted the horse, rode over, and said, "Give me your reins."
Ji Feiyu handed over the reins in her hand. The Second Prince rode the horse, said something to the main force in the Beihan language, and led Ji Feiyu away from the main force by holding Jingyun's reins.
Ji Feiyu raised her eyebrows. "Where are we going again?"
The Second Prince said, "Kota Grassland."
The Second Prince pulled the reins of the two horses, and the two horses trotted north together.
The Kota Grassland was boundless. Under the night sky, the bright moon hung high. The gentle breeze blew, and the grass danced. There were occasional twinkles in the moonlight.
"What are those shining things?" Ji Feiyu asked curiously.
The Second Prince pulled the reins to stop them and explained, "They are the eyes of some insects. You can only see them when the moonlight is good."
"How amazing." Ji Feiyu couldn't help but sigh.
The Second Prince looked at the end of the night sky. "But that's not the reason I brought you here."
"Then what are we here for?" Ji Feiyu looked back at the Second Prince. The moonlight shone on half of his face, making his features more distinct.
"Don't you notice that there are few short trees on this grassland and it's very flat?"
"Um... So what?" Ji Feiyu didn't think about it. She didn't want to guess either. She was waiting for the Second Prince to give the answer.
The Second Prince didn't keep her in suspense anymore. He said, "This is the most suitable place for horse - racing."
After saying that, he tightened Jingyun's reins and said, "I'll run with you. Jingyun is wild - tempered and runs very fast. I'm afraid you can't control it."
Ji Feiyu thought that he was probably afraid that she would run away. She didn't expose him but just smiled. "I've never been led by a rope to run. It's really a novel experience."
The Second Prince said, "When I was learning to ride a horse as a child, I was always led by my uncles like this."
"I guess the Second Prince was very young at that time." The corners of Ji Feiyu's mouth turned up.
The Second Prince laughed too.
Then he whispered, "Jingyun is not like the ordinary fine horses in Dayong. You'll know later. Hold on tight."
After saying that, he rode the two horses and started running. At first, the two horses were trotting, and then they started galloping. As soon as they started galloping, the previous bumpy feeling disappeared instantly, and the surrounding scenery flew by quickly.
Since Ji Feiyu was in the front, she could clearly see the surrounding scenery. Soon she ignored the fact that the Second Prince was controlling the horse for her. At this moment, the world was vast, and her heart was free. It was completely different from the feeling of being chased and galloping on a narrow road.
Jingyun was much faster than the horses she had ridden before. Ji Feiyu felt the pleasure of horse - racing on the grassland. She couldn't help shouting out the depression that had been pent up in her heart for a long time. "Ah—"
When the Second Prince saw this, he also shouted, "Ah—"
"Ha—"
"Ha—"
At this moment, the two of them were like two crazy people. While galloping at high speed, they shouted freely. Their shouts released all the unhappiness in their hearts.
Ji Feiyu shouted out all the depression and sadness she had felt during this period. Looking at the boundless grassland, her state of mind was filled with this vastness.