The snow covered the inside and outside of the capital, and as soon as Xu Chenglin left the capital, someone followed.

Xu Chenglin has been in the army for a long time, and he quickly noticed such an undisguised tracking.

He deliberately made a detour and re-walked the road he had walked, and in addition to the horseshoe prints of him and his own soldiers, there was a clear line of hoof prints on the white snow.

He dismounted, looked at it carefully for a while, and then stood there waiting.

"Lord Shizi, let's not leave?"

"Follow our men and horses, and the horseshoe nailed to the horseshoe is a horseshoe for officers and soldiers, and it is a person who is a mighty general. ”

Zhang Junguang has not received the news of the capital for a long time, and he is starting to be anxious.

And in such a stormy and snowy weather, if the Qin army launched an attack, what kind of fate Zhang Junguang would take with more than 20,000 Jingwei men and horses, it can be imagined.

After a short time, the men and horses chasing them came back along the road they had walked, and when they saw Xu Chenglin standing in the wind and snow, the person on the horse was so shocked that he almost fell off the horse:

"Xu Chenglin, you, why did you run back here again?"

After Xu Chenglin saw the person on the horse clearly, the tense muscles of his whole body quietly relaxed, and his eyes looked at Zhang Weigong, who was trembling with the horse's neck, with a faint look:

"It's rare that the pampered Zhang Gongzi has come to follow me so hard, how can I not stand still and wait for you?"

Zhang Weigong didn't suffer much, and he was sent by his uncle to inquire about the news in such weather, and he had already frozen.

At this time, Xu Chenglin found out, and he simply broke the jar and broke it, and he didn't get down on the horse, so he asked with a big grin:

"Xu Chenglin, I know that the capital has been controlled by your Weibei Hou Mansion, so you can see that we have met for the sake of a meeting, and give a happy word, what do you want? Do you fight or not? Your righteous sister, do you see the emperor or not?"

Xu Chenglin stared at Zhang Weigong for a while, and had to sigh, although the Zhang family is a good bamboo shoot, Zhang Junguang is a hero, and as a result, he chose such a straw bag heir, but at this time, a straw bag can be compared to a tough guy to attract people.

At the very least, he doesn't have to fight with someone here on a snowy day to delay his trip.

"It's not up to me to see it or not. But I only have one piece of advice for your Zhang family, no matter whether the emperor is in the throne or not, you should not act rashly - because the ending is predestined a long time ago, and you should know it in your hearts!"

Xu Chenglin said arrogantly and toughly, the people behind Zhang Weigong were all Zhang Junguang's henchmen, and when he heard this, he changed color, and he was about to rush forward to reason with Xu Chenglin, but was stopped by Zhang Weigong waving his hand.

Zhang Weigong not only didn't have any anger, but also nodded approvingly.

"Yes, that's what I thought, too. It's a pity that my eldest uncle knows that the heart of loyalty is heavier than anyone else, and this is also something that can't be helped. ”

After speaking, he sighed and said:

"Look at this direction, you are going to the camp of the Qin army, then you can persuade that righteous sister of yours, let her pity and pity us innocent people, and go to see the emperor as soon as possible, and there will be no loss of meat when you meet......"

"That's her business, you don't need to say more. Get out of the way!"

Xu Chenglin interrupted Zhang Weigong's emotion and turned over on his horse.

He still knows a thing or two about Zhang Weigong's temperament, and he will come as soon as he opens his mouth full of nonsense, let him continue, and what he says must be something he doesn't like to hear.

Zhang Weigong arched his hand on the horse:

"Yes, you are a person, whether it is a sister or a sister-in-law, you are your sweetheart!"

"Smack!"

Before Zhang Weigong's words fell, Xu Chenglin's long whip pulled out a long trace on the snow beside him, and the soil under the snow turned out, becoming a deep ditch, Zhang Weigong was so frightened that he even jumped a few steps to the side with the horse and almost fell to the ground.

Xu Chenglin's face was as gloomy as a rakshasa:

"Let me hear your nonsense again, this is what will happen to you!"

Zhang Weigong directly admitted:

"Okay, okay, I was wrong!

Xu Chenglin glared at Zhang Weigong warningly, and then reined in his horse and continued to move forward.

Xiao Shaotang said that day, let him avoid suspicion, so as not to be criticized by others for Cheng Huan, it seems that it is really not untargeted.

Just when Xu Chenglin and his party were about to disappear into the wind and snow, Zhang Weigong suddenly owed to his back:

"Xu Chenglin, I think that's your sister-in-law, it's true!"

After shouting, lest Xu Chenglin come back and whip him, he fled with a horsewhip and ran away.

When Xu Chenglin turned around, the heavier and heavier wind and snow had already beaten Zhang Weigong's figure a little blurred, but he heard these words clearly.

Even Zhang Weigong can see a little bit of ......

In the end, it was once a person, so in the eyes of familiar people, can it leave traces everywhere?

Xu Chenglin didn't chase Zhang Weigong anymore, and went to the Qin army camp with a lot of heart.

When he didn't know that he was pregnant, Bai Chenghuan didn't feel anything.

But after being diagnosed by the military doctor, everyone surrounded her and asked her if she wanted to vomit, if she wanted to eat sour and spicy, whether she would have back pain, etc., Bai Chenghuan was almost vomited by them.

She simply kicked everyone out and slept alone under the quilt.

She didn't have half of the symptoms that a pregnant woman should have, but if she had to say that she did, it was a little sleepier than before.

It's okay to come and sleep more.

Listening to the sound of snow falling outside the tent, Bai Chenghuan quickly fell asleep in the warmth of the charcoal stove.

Then she had a long dream.

Or maybe it's not a dream, because the cold handrail in your hand feels so real to the touch.

It seems to be in the Zhaoyang Palace, but it doesn't seem to be the Zhaoyang Palace, because there is no large red curtain, but a bright yellow curtain embroidered with entwined branch lotus, and the color is fresh and bright.

A palace maid brought a bowl of black soup, steaming hot, and respectfully placed it in front of her.

"Queen Mother, it's time to drink medicine. ”

Queen Mother...... She didn't live long enough to hear it.

Bai Chenghuan looked up, and the palace maid's face became clear-

"Mei Xiang?"

Isn't Mei Xiang, the big girl who entered the palace with her, dead? Hasn't she been killed by Xiao Shaoyun?

Could it be that she remembered wrong, Mei Xiang was not dead?

Bai Cheng happily went over to take her hand, but watched as his hands passed through her body.

"This medicine, after drinking it for so many years, is too bitter......"

Someone behind him sighed in a low voice, the voice was too familiar—

When she turned her head to look, a graceful and luxurious woman sat on a phoenix seat, and the tassels of the nine phoenix beads reflected a familiar and unfamiliar face.

That's her voice, that's her face, it's the face of Xu Chenghuan in the past!

But that face was completely devoid of radiant brightness, only decay soaked in sorrow, haggard face before aging and heart decaying.

"Niangniang, the medicine is bitter, this time there is a new doctor, maybe it is different from the previous doctor. ”

Mei Xiangqingling's voice was a little low.

Bai Chenghuan saw that the women on the phoenix seat were all vicissitudes, and their eyebrows were only frozen for a short moment, and then they suddenly became sharp:

"I changed the imperial doctor, what about the previous imperial physician Liu?"

Mei Xiang hung her head deeply and remained silent.

The woman on the phoenix seat seemed to understand something in an instant, Huo Ran stood up and angrily smashed the medicine bowl in front of her:

"Is this medicine?! This is human blood and human life! What about the emperor? Where is he?"

Mei Xiang hurriedly knelt on the ground, and a strange-looking eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and begged:

"The queen is angry!"

"Calm your anger? How do you want this palace to calm your anger? If you don't use it, why do you want to kill people?! This is the first one? The fourth or the fifth?!"

The empathetic anger tightly grabbed Bai Chenghuan's heart, it was a kind of anger with sadness and helplessness, which made people unable to find an outlet if they wanted to vent!

Who is to blame, and who can be blamed?

The graceful woman seemed to be going crazy, turned around and ran out of the hall, Bai Chenghuan couldn't help but follow her out, and there were frightened shouts from Mei Xiang and the eunuch behind her-

"Mother, don't go out!"

Why can't you get out?

This palace is her home, why can't she go out?

At the moment when the sunlight poured down outside, Bai Chenghuan suddenly became one with the woman.

She ran aimlessly, but her feet seemed to know the way, and she kept moving forward, kept moving forward, and finally followed Taiming Lake to the front of the Taiji Palace.

Mei Xiang's voice behind him was gradually getting a little farther away, but in the vast open space under the stone steps of the Taiji Hall, there was a crowd of kneeling black.

The leader is a face that has been weathered by years but is still clear and warm, that is...... Song Changqing?

Behind her were countless officials in court uniforms, each of whom seemed to see her, but didn't seem to see her.

Their eyes were fixed only on the high stone steps.

When she looked over, she happened to meet the gaze of a man in a dragon robe.

"Cheng Huan, why are you here?"

The man who seemed to be confronting the whole world ran quickly towards her the moment he saw her.

But his posture has long since lost the vigor of the past-

That is, Xiao Shaoyun?

is still vaguely handsome, but why is his temples frosted and his eyes have horizontal lines?

"Go back, Cheng Huan, go back quickly!"

He tried to hide something, but the people behind him couldn't hide it.

"Your Majesty, the Xu family is jealous, and there is nothing to do, for the sake of the Great Qi and the country, for the emperor's heirs, and ask the emperor to abolish his throne and select new people!"

"The demon girl of the Xu family is really an ominous person! she will cut off my great Qi dragon heir, and ask the emperor to make a decision as soon as possible!"

"Xu, if you have self-knowledge, how can you live in the queen's phoenix position safely?"

……

It seemed that because of her appearance, those ministers who were originally a little quiet completely put aside their scruples and shouted loudly.

"Cheng Huan, go back!"

Xiao Shaoyun looked at her with panic and pleading eyes, but Bai Chenghuan only heard the question that he couldn't control:

"Xiao Shaoyun, was Imperial Doctor Liu killed by you again?"

The eyes that were also full of vicissitudes suddenly filled with anger:

"Who is talking so much in front of you? He's not good at medicine, damn it!"

The haze was heavy, with a fierce look in her eyes, and she took a step back.

The man in front of him, along with the noisy shouts of the minister behind him, became distant and empty.

How could her husband, the emperor of Great Qi, become such a person?!

Xiao Shaoyun took a step forward with her, raised his hand to cover her ears, and his lips were closed:

"Cheng Huan, go back, wait for me well, I will never abolish the queen, I will never lose you! I will definitely kill them, so that they will never dare to criticize you again!"

It's a pity that such an act is in vain, and she still clearly feels the hatred of those courtiers for her-

Why did they hate her like that?

Heir......

It seems that someone in my ear has said that Xu Chenghuan gave birth to five sons and three daughters, none of whom survived!

It seemed that a thunderclap had exploded the fog in front of her, and all the sorrow she didn't understand came flooding in, and the sorrow that didn't belong to her occupied all her mind—

What a child!

Every time I am pregnant, every time I am pregnant for ten months, every heart-rending pain of childbirth, but then the child dies!

Eight children, eight ah!

None survived!

She gave birth to eight children, but she never heard a baby cry!

She only heard her own crying with blood and tears, echoing in the palace night after night!

Why? Why is she Xu Chenghuan such a fate?

What did she do wrong, and God wanted to punish her like this?

Jealous, a demon girl who brings disaster to the country, an ominous person, why is she Xu Chenghuan living like this?

It's better to live than to die!

What Xiao Shaoyun was saying, she couldn't hear it clearly.

All she heard was her own voice:

The emperor was angry, and the concubines retired. ”

She didn't know if there was blood and tears on her face, and what kind of despair her back was when she turned away.

She couldn't control the body, and she couldn't change anything.

She watched as the grief-stricken woman dismissed everyone, and then threw the white silk onto the delicately carved beams.

When the pain of suffocation at the last moment came up, just like the moment when her neck was cut by Xiao Shaoyun's own hands, she reached out and grabbed something in the air, but she couldn't grasp anything.

Xiao Shaoyun...... Xiao Shaoyun......

If it weren't for me, you probably wouldn't have had to suffer like this again, and you would no longer have to be forced by such cruel years, born early, tormented day and night, and forced by your subordinates to have no way to escape.

It's just, it's a pity...... At the last glance, I can't see you......

The green smoke of the Zhaoyang Hall curled up, like a soul slowly dissipating.

It turns out, Xu Chenghuan, are you willing to die?

Bai Chenghuan seemed to understand something, but he didn't understand.

But there is a low sigh lingering in my heart—

I love him.

So, how can I make him so miserable and burdened by me?

After I leave, he will have a beautiful new person, a healthy child, and a good rest of his life.

Xiao Shaoyun, I'm tired, but your Chenghuan always hopes that you will be happy.

The sound of the door of the Zhaoyang Hall being kicked open, the panicked cries of the palace people, and the roars of Xiao Shaoyun all sounded in the empty Zhaoyang Palace.

"Cheng Huan, Cheng Huan!"

He took the long-dead woman in his arms like a madman, and called her name over and over again, but no one responded to him tenderly.

"How can you leave me alone?

The emperor's tears eventually dried up, condensed into eternal ice, with the color of blood that sank into hell.

The emperor who reappeared in the Taiji Hall has become a bloodthirsty Shura.

"I will not forgive anyone who forced the queen to death. ”

"Let's all die. ”

A fluttering sentence enveloped the ministers, and since then the blood has flowed like a river.