With the entry of the Yinguo cavalry into the city, this war will also come to an end, although it has reached the depths of winter, but there is still no joy in the city, no people plan to prepare for the New Year, maybe this year is too difficult for them, in addition to snow or snow on the empty streets, fortunately there is no blood.

They accepted the reality, and the fighting everywhere gradually stopped and stopped. The chaos has gradually become calmer, but many people have died and will never come back.

Chu Xiaohua didn't interfere in the affairs of the city, and he didn't care, he was just an ally of the empress, not the ruler of this country.

Now there are still many mysteries in his heart that have not been solved, and he needs someone who can give him answers.

But the man did not come.

Even the son he cared about the most didn't want to see him, the two had only met three times, and each time they left in a hurry, the tired and sad gaze made him feel uneasy in his heart, and Chu Xianzhao seemed to be complaining about why he had been bringing reinforcements for so long.

This father of his own...... It's really badly done.

He heard the sound of earrings ringing, and the woman came to him and put on a robe for him, and rubbed his head as she had done in the past.

Chu Xiaohua subconsciously avoided like a stubborn child, and pulled his sleeve with a smile, Chu Xiaohua brought a powerful army as he promised, and the two of them were close enough to share weal and well, no matter what kind of move they made, they didn't feel strange.

The empress was not angry, and said softly, "Tantai Ninghua is dead, I took out the royal breath in his body and gave it to Jing'er?"

Chu Xiaohua didn't understand this sentence, he knew that the empress's earth-shattering move that day uprooted the entire Minsai City and threw it to the concubine pass, which also consumed the royal breath in her body, maybe only a little bit was left like a candle in the wind, and it was scattered, but I don't know why it was more appropriate to give the royal breath to her daughter, to herself?

He didn't pursue anything, but said slowly, "Those damned people are dead, but the problem still exists." ”

"Although I, the Empress of Shuyue, still hold power, my approach has made it difficult for many people to accept, and they will resist this Empress in their hearts, which is not a good thing for the future of Shuyue. ”

"Especially the alliance with your Yinguo is still a thorn in the hearts of the people, and the death of Shantai Ninghua has not changed anything, because the people know that the person who allied with your Yinguo is me, and I am the one who started it. ”

"The Tantai family has ruled Shuyue for so long, and there is such a terrible civil war, I take most of the responsibility, my surname is Tantai, and I am willing to pay a little price for this matter, whether anyone wants it or not. ”

The empress accompanied him to stand on the Fengqing Pavilion and watched the falling snow, stretched out her hands to catch a snowflake, and smiled and talked to her beloved man.

But every time she said a word, Chu Xiaohua's heart sank, he reached out and touched her cheek and said, "You have to be strong, now Shuyue needs you as the empress, your daughter needs you, and I also need you ......"

The empress restrained her smile, and there were snowflakes reflected in her beautiful pupils, and she looked at the palace looming in the snow curtain and said calmly, "What else do you need from me? You just need a passage to the southern continent, I can meet this condition, after all, you have done so much for me." ”

Chu Xiaohua took a deep breath, looked at her weak side face, and said with a trembling right hand, "Why?"

"I'm tired and want to rest. ”

She furrowed her good-looking eyebrows slightly, her haggard face was indescribably weak and moving, the years have added some charm to her appearance, even if the gray hair is beautiful, Chu Xiaohua reached out and hugged her into his arms, and buried his face in the woman's white hair.

There was silence on the walls.

He saw a tear flowing from the woman's eyes, his mood at this time was far more complicated than hers, and when he realized the woman's motives, he was even more surprised and puzzled, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

He said in a hoarse voice, "Think of your daughter, she's only ten years old, don't you think it's selfish?"

Tantai Ningsu smiled and said, "I have done everything that a mother can do for her, and someone will take care of her for me after that, I have made arrangements for this matter, now the situation is difficult and complicated, I have no body, Wang Xi is really not important to Shu Yue, my life is really not important, if I am not here, maybe it will be good for the next situation, at least those who are dissatisfied with me can no longer make irresponsible remarks, I am the same as Tantai Ninghua is a person that Shu Yue does not need."

"I can't protect her for the rest of her life, she has to learn how to grow up and be as brave as your child. ”

A gleam of pride appeared on her face, as if she saw the far future.

Chu Xiaohua said in a hard voice: "I won't watch this happen. ”

"When a person has the heart to seek death, even if the other party has a hundred ways to save him, he can find a hundred and one ways to die, and no one can control life and death. ”

Chu Xiaohua wanted to say something, but he felt like a fish in his throat.

"You have lost a lot of weight, when I was not by your side, were there a lot of people bullying you?" Chu Xiaohua reached out and gently touched her face.

"Would you care if I was bullied? I thought you wouldn't care about anything but winning the war. ”

"Absolutely. Chu Xiaohua said in a low voice, "I will kill them all, including those they love." ”

Tantai Ningsu smiled lightly and gently hugged his head, "A man like you is afraid that others will take away what belongs to you, but some things don't belong to you in the first place, even if they fall into your hands now, as there are more and more things around you, they will disappear one day." you

There are many things you want, but you don't know what you really want, and when you realize it, that thing has already left you. ”

After speaking, she took off the jade pendant from Chu Xiaohua's waist, and slowly recalled, "At that time, I secretly ran out of the palace with you to play, you took a fancy to this jade pendant at a glance, you came to Shuyue for the first time to give me a gift, you said that this jade pendant is engraved with a snake and an eagle It is the two of us, and you will take me to travel far away." It was snowing like this day as it is now, the two of us walking side by side on the snow, your hair is slowly dyed white by the snow, I think it would be nice for the two of us to go on like this, let me watch your hair turn white little by little...... Little by little. ”

She laughed as she spoke, and tears dripped on the jade pendant, "There are only two men who love me in the world, one in the yang world and one in the underworld." ”

Chu Xiaohua's voice was a little hoarse: "If you die...... What should I do? Don't be so willful, okay?!"

"Aren't all women willful? I wanted to go all the way with you, wherever you went, but you left me first. There is no real empathy in this world, but when we met, you and I were both children!" Tantai Ningsu left his embrace and turned his back to him and whispered.

"Is that so...... Then I get it. ”

She nodded in relief, then disappeared behind her, falling into the snow.

He had a thousand ways to pull her back from the railing, but he did nothing but silently accept it as it happened, because he saw the woman's last smile.

He couldn't bear to break such a quiet and beautiful smile, and that smile made him feel comforted and sad.

He stood on the edge of the railing, and looked down for a long, long time, until the blood under her slowly encroached on the snow, and the red made him think of the wedding dress that the woman wore when she got married, and the rose field like a brocade cloth in Lin'an City, the white color reminded him of the circle of white silk on the wrist of the deceased, and the white and endless distance.

His woman died, died in the snow, buried with those irreparable faults.

Perhaps he had witnessed death too many times, and it was difficult for him to feel the heartbreak of life and death, those dead appeared in his life and came and went, and never came back.

In the battle of Concubine Pass, Chu Xiaohua, the emperor of Yinguo, led the Iron Shura Army to the battlefield, leading all the rebels in Shuyue to the battlefield, and stabilizing the turbulent situation in Shuyue in one fell swoop.

The sense of accomplishment brought to him by this battle was no less than that of leading the Golden Horde cavalry into Lin'an City, those who deserved the damn were all dead, and those who were still alive now at least did not want to die.

But Tantai Ningsu died, the woman who had loved him for more than 20 years died, Princess Lou Huan, who accompanied him back to Lin'ancheng, also died, and the maid Bai Su, who gave birth to children for him, also died, and the women who loved him died.

Now he was the only one left standing alone on the city wall, a real loner.

He looked at the woman with some indifference, and the wind and snow had dyed his hair white, and the snow particles slipped down his forehead and into the placket of his face as if he were weeping.

Someone came to him and saw the woman lying under the city wall, but he didn't react for a long time.

He looked at it for a long time before he raised his head, with a hint of confusion in his purple eyes, and asked, "Why?"

"No why, no why......"

While saying this, a trace of grief flashed in Chu Xiaohua's eyes, and the words before Ning Su's death deeply pierced his heart.

His eyes were a little dim, but he didn't hide his face and shed tears like Chu Xianzhao, but stood tall in the wind and snow, like a stone sculpture, so strong that people felt cruel.

Up and down the attic, a dead man, two snowmen.

The gate of the palace was tightly closed, perhaps because of Ningsu's orders, no one outside knew what was happening, but the people inside began to appear some small black spots in the snow.

The little black dots began to kneel slowly around the woman who had long since died, and the cries came from below, and the bells in the palace rang slowly, echoing indifferently in everyone's hearts.

The father and son walked in silence in the deeper direction of the palace, this place was very strange to Chu Xianzhao, but it had not changed much to Chu Xiaohua, he familiarly bypassed those pillars, from Qingliang Lake to the bamboo forest that was still green in the depths of winter, he looked at the bamboo leaves swaying in the wind and snow, and slowly sat on the snow.

Chu Xianzhao stood behind him silently, how heavy his heart was at this time without any explanation, he didn't know why his father wanted the empress to fall from the pavilion, thinking about it, he realized that he seemed to have done such a thing, he began to understand the feelings of those who seek death to see the death, watching his beloved woman disappear from his side, he can really be indifferent?

The death he had seen along the way made Chu Xianzhao's mood no longer before, he felt very depressed, this depression could not disappear after sleeping or killing someone, it was like a lock clasping his heart, making him feel short of breath from time to time, and the man sitting in the snow in front of him picked up a piece of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, looking up at the sky.

It's like a toad sitting in a well and watching the sky.

......

......

The father and son sat on the solid snow, looking at the dim sky, and the two were silent and did not speak.

Chu Xianzhao occasionally looked at the expression on his father's side face, looked at the white hair in his ears, once upon a time it was also pitch black, when did it turn white so quickly?

Emperor Yin was silent for a long time,

But he never opened his mouth to say anything, he was very bored and wanted to say something to his son, and after thinking about it for a long time, he only squeezed out such a sentence.

"Let's go home, your sister and aunt miss you very much. ”

"Yes. ”

Chu Xianzhao agreed with a heavy face, Emperor Yin finished eating the piece of snow and handed his son a piece of snow, Chu Xianzhao held the snow block but did not stuff it into his mouth like his father.

Emperor Yin's heart was a little gloomy, thinking of his son's feats in the past year, coupled with his current expression, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"What about the tranquility of the platform?"

After pondering for a moment, the Emperor waved his hand and sighed weakly, "If she is willing to go with us, she will go...... I will send people from the imperial court to take care of everything in Shuyue, and I will never let the people from Houchu invade this land, and I will continue to do it for her if she does it, and I will do it for her if she can't do it. When her daughter is eighteen years old, I will let her choose whether to stay in the country for the rest of her life or come back to inherit the throne left to her by her mother, and I absolutely respect her opinion. ”

"I will treat her like a sister, and I will remember your words from my father. ”

"That couldn't be better...... Xiao Zhao, if you feel uncomfortable, you can always come and talk to your father...... If you don't say some words for a long time, you will become a thorn in your heart. ”

Emperor Yin looked at the bamboo forest in front of him a little tiredly, Chu Xianzhao did not leave, he knew that his father needed someone to accompany him now, and he was the same.

"We won...... But won nothing. ”

Chu Xianzhao muttered these words, and was carried by the wind and snow to an unknown distance.

After a long time, Emperor Yin turned his head and glanced at Chu Xianzhao, and said calmly, "Xiao Zhao, do you think that Father Emperor has forced the people around him too hard over the years?"

Chu Xuan summoned Youyou and said, "It's because you pushed yourself too hard, and the people around you didn't want to look at it, so you pushed yourself so hard." Aunt Ning told me that when I looked at you gritting your teeth in Shuyue before, I always felt that you were pitiful like a child. ”

"Every man is born with a sword, and if he doesn't sharpen his heart, he will never be sharp. Emperor Yin said calmly, "I tried to sharpen your brother, and I almost broke him...... That's why I brought you into this battlefield with a lot of determination, and it seems that you didn't disappoint me. ”

Chu Xianzhao smiled a little stiffly, Emperor Yin sighed and said slowly, "You have made great progress this year, especially the world-renowned battle exploit of Yan Mang, which makes me feel ashamed, I don't know if Hua Youyue has taught you many things, in short, now the entire Yin Kingdom treats you as a hero, I am very satisfied with your performance, and when you return to the Yin Kingdom, your identity will no longer be the third prince, but His Royal Highness!"

When mentioning the lonely woman who often wore black, the corners of Chu Xianzhao's eyes couldn't help twitching, and he faced his father with courage and said calmly, "You let General Hua Youyue accompany me to learn the art of war, it still has some effect." ”

Emperor Yin didn't ask him directly about him and Hua Youyue's, but said calmly, "Actually, it's not bad for Meng Yu or Ye Zang to teach you this kind of thing like the art of war, but they are different from you, I think you also understand that the reason why I let Hua Youyue accompany you is because you are the same person as her, and you have divine weapons in your body, only that woman can tell you how to control this power, and the entire Yin Kingdom can no longer find a second person except Hua Youyue can teach you." ”

Although I don't know how my father guessed that Tai'a Jian was in his body, Chu Xianzhao is not entangled, since he was a child, his father has always been very fond of him, but he is not lacking in strictness, when he was a child, he always liked to sit on his father's lap and listen to him talk about those strange things, but when was the last time his father told him a story, he had forgotten it...... It seems that the father and son have not been together so simply and calmly for a long time, and I really miss those old days.

"I learned a little bit about you from her, and your performance on the battlefield left my father speechless, but I still have some questions for you?"

Chu Xianzhao vaguely guessed what it was in his heart, and slowly crushed the snow in his hand, and Emperor Yin said in a cold tone, "There are eggs under the nest, what did I say in my letter to you? We don't need to have much mercy on the defeated side, why is that Princess Yan Mang still alive?!"

Emperor Yin's gaze at this time was extremely cold, "Have you forgotten Su Changqing's lesson? I have already suffered the loss of these children of the dead country once, and I don't want my own children to suffer too, you should have killed her directly when you caught her!"

Chu Xianzhao pursed his lips and said nothing, it was rare for Emperor Yin to speak to him in such a stern tone, "Since you have the courage to kill that queen, you should kill that princess to prevent future troubles, you have great power in your hands, but you still don't know what the will of a king is, you are not as good as me." ”

Emperor Yin continued: "Why don't you kill that damn King Chai Muzhi of Huaiquan Domain? What kind of effect can this play for us in the future, leaving so many princes and grandsons surnamed Chai...... Sooner or later, my country will give it to you, if they have a rebellion in the future, it will be you who will suffer, although you have laid down Yan Mang, but you have left too many small tails that you shouldn't have, these tails will sooner or later become poisonous snakes and bite you, who will help you then?"

Chu Xianzhao sighed and said: "It was Chai Muzhi who gave us a shortcut to attack Anxibi City, and also gave food and herbs to the wounded soldiers in Jingnan City, the current situation is very complicated, I can only choose to temporarily form an alliance with him...... Whether he is a traitor to Yan Mang or not, his son is a man who knows how to repay his kindness, as for the princess...... I killed her mother with my own hands, and I really couldn't kill her. ”

"If you don't kill her, one day she will come and kill you, this is your fault, and many people may bear your so-called mercy when the time comes. ”

"She's just left us, and you haven't understood anything until now, have you?"

(End of chapter)