Walking out of the imperial study, Cheng Jinzhi raised his head and closed his eyes slightly in the snowy daylight, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone and everything have passed like a cloud of smoke, and the dust will finally settle, and it is time for you to let go of all your worries and fetters.

In the middle of his eyes, he suddenly saw not far away, a figure in gorgeous clothes came surrounded by a group of palace people. After seeing her standing on the stone steps, she was slightly stunned at first, and then a kind smile rose at the corner of her lips.

"Jin Zhi, you are finally willing to enter the palace. ”

"The courtiers meet the queen. ”

Facing Cheng Xiuning, who is now the queen of the dynasty, Cheng Jinzhi also smiled back, whether it was on his face or in the depths of his heart, there was no longer the estrangement and discomfort that made people want to stay away.

Once upon a time, the two were still "enemies" who gritted their teeth as soon as they met, but after experiencing so many joys and sorrows, life and death, those small hatreds and hatreds that could not be let go of were insignificant.

"Between you and my sisters, don't be polite, hurry up. ”

Seeing this, Cheng Xiuning stepped forward and raised her hand to hold her wrist, her eyes flashed with a kind soft light, but it didn't make people feel dazzling at all. "Jin Zhi, you have locked yourself up in the palace alone these days, and Your Majesty and I are worried that you will ......"

"So much has happened, I just want to calm down and be quiet, so that Your Majesty and Niangniang are worried. ”

Cheng Xiuning nodded thoughtfully when she heard this, turned her gaze slightly, and took a deep breath with emotion.

"Alas, year after year, time flies. Seriously, since I was a child, especially after you married into the Yan Wangfu and became the princess, I always tried every means to hope that you had a bad time. But now, I miss a little bit of the time when you used to call me second sister and deliberately bully you. ”

"Yes, listening to Niangniang say this, it also makes me feel that the days in Chengfu in the past are still like yesterday. Cheng Jinzhi's lips hooked up a shallow smile, "However, Niangniang is now the mother of a country, she has just given birth to a little prince, and she has the favor of His Majesty, which is the envy of thousands of people, and she should enjoy the present and focus on the future." In the past, let it pass. ”

"You also know that I am a high-minded and arrogant person, always thinking of flying on the branches and becoming a phoenix. But now she really became a queen as she wished,

His Majesty has taken care of every opportunity, working day and night for state affairs, and he no longer likes to joke as much as before. Sometimes I can't help but feel that the days of the palace in the past are still happy and comfortable. ”

"People are always like this, until they really lose it, they learn to miss it, and they know how to cherish it. ”

Cheng Jinzhi lowered his eyes, and muttered in a deep voice with deep eyes, although the voice was very soft, it still fell into Cheng Xiuning's ears. "Golden Bough......

Looking at the hidden sadness in Cheng Jinzhi's eyes, she pursed the corners of her lips, and just wanted to open her mouth to comfort, when she suddenly saw a team of well-trained royal forbidden soldiers walking briskly towards this place on the corridor of the main hall on the right, and then stopped in front of her, please salute.

At this time, Cheng Jinzhi noticed that these forbidden soldiers were holding a man, who looked like he should be a guilty person.

And when her eyes came into contact with this prisoner who was close at hand, her originally calm eyes suddenly tightened, and turned to a layer of indifferent chill.

"Who is he?"

"Hui Niangniang, my subordinates were ordered by His Majesty to escort Yuan Peng, the prince of Southern Chu, into the palace to face the saint. ”

"Prince ....... Southern Chu"

Cheng Xiuning frowned when she heard this, and hurriedly glanced at Cheng Jinzhi sideways, obviously very concerned about her feelings at the moment.

Even if she has never seen this enemy prince who once intended to get involved in the Great Zhou Dynasty, she is naturally clear about the grievances between this person and the Yan Wangfu and Cheng Jinzhi.

Since the original attempt of Southern Chu to collude with the prince to force the palace, the king of Chu did not repent, and still raised troops to the south, desperately trying to turn the tide. Unexpectedly, in the end, the resourceful Cen Feng rebelled against the first army, and used the divisive strategy to unite the northwest tribes to counterattack Southern Chu.

After the defeat of Southern Chu, Yuan Peng was pledged as a prisoner of war and returned to Beijing.

"Princess Yan, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed?"

At this time, Yuan Peng's clothes were shabby, his face was full of dust, and he completely lost the proud demeanor of the original fresh clothes and angry horses.

After seeing Cheng Jinzhi, who appeared unexpectedly, he was obviously a little surprised. But more than that, it's a vague color that is hard to guess.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Royal Highness King Heng, I'm fine. ”

Even though the enemy she once gritted her teeth was in front of her, Cheng Jinzhi was extremely calm at this moment, and nothing seemed to be able to deter her.

"But Your Highness, even if you are unscrupulous and the organs are exhausted, aren't you still reduced to a prisoner who is a mermaid?"

"I was born at the wrong time, and the time is not for me. A wry smile of disdain tugged at Yuan Peng's lips, "I didn't lose to anyone, I just, lost to luck." ”

"You have today's fate, is it true, there is no regret?"

"Heh, since ancient times, what is there to regret about becoming a king and defeating a villain?"

"What about Princess Yuanxi?"

Hearing Cheng Jinzhi suddenly mention Princess Yuan Xi, Yuan Peng, who was originally fearless, suddenly had a twinkle in his eyes, and the sporadic points of light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and finally turned into a pool of stagnant water.

"When the princess was alive, I always saw her standing in the highest attic of the palace looking at the sky to the north. Later I learned that from

Starting from the capital, all the way to the north, crossing the Chuyun River, is Huaiyang, the capital of southern Chu. ”

Cheng Jinzhi didn't look at Yuan Peng's expression, but raised his eyes to look at the floating clouds in the northern sky.

"I have asked Your Majesty for my life to escort the princess's ashes back to Nanchu, so that she can return to her roots. I think that even if you and the King of Chu are so cold-blooded and ruthless to her, in her heart, she still misses the place that once gave birth to her and raised her, and has all her good memories. ”

"You... Why are you doing this, shouldn't you hate me?"

Cheng Jinzhi's words were like a sharpened blade, piercing straight at the scar in Yuan Peng's heart that he didn't want to be revealed, and at the same time ripped off his last trace of pathetic disguise.

"I did this for Princess Yuanxi, she is a very affectionate person, and she is also a poor person, and I have never hated her. ”

Cheng Jinzhi said this, and slowly turned around to meet Yuan Peng's sloppy gaze, which seemed to be as plain as water, but it was clearly three feet cold. "And as for you, you don't deserve my hatred at all. ”

"Hold it down. ”

Looking at Yuan Peng, who was shouldered in an instant and his face was like ashes, Cheng Xiuning sighed lightly and waved his hand towards the leader of the forbidden army.

Looking at Yuan Peng's back as he was gradually moving away under the escort of the forbidden army, he stared for a moment, and then turned his expression to look at Cheng Jinzhi with deep eyes.

"Golden Branch, all those involved in that incident have been duly punished, and you should let it go. You are still young, life has just begun, if you live alone in the palace, take that child named Xiao Heng to live in the palace, and our sisters can talk from time to time. ”

"I am grateful for the kindness of the queen mother, but I still have a wish to be fulfilled, and I can't accept the grace of the mother. Niangniang is a blessed person, and she will definitely be able to grow old with His Majesty, and she will have a full house of children and grandchildren. ”

Cheng Jinzhi smiled softly, bowed to Cheng Xiu and thanked him, and in the other party's reluctant gaze, he took firm steps and walked down the stone steps step by step.

The thin figure left deep and shallow footprints on the heavy snow. Until the end, it finally turned into a distant and insignificant point in the vast world.

Jun buried the spring under the spring to sell the bones, and I sent the world full of snow.

His life was too hard and lonely.

I can't, I can't, I can't leave him alone anymore.