Heaven probably took pity on Li Tan's obscurity before his death, so he let the vigorous fire illuminate his way back to the west.

On the third night after his death, the Tanxiang Palace suddenly went on fire, and then the north wind was difficult to control for a while, fortunately it was the middle of winter, the weather was cold, the grass and trees were sparse, if it was the early spring and midsummer when the flowers and plants in the palace were flourishing, it would be a disaster to the entire court.

Fortunately, Li Tan's body was moved out with the guards by Li Can, who sacrificed his life and forgot to save him, but he disappeared into the fire and never came out, and Lin Yueyuan, who was originally guarding the spirit but rushed into the fire to save people, and Li Min, who was sick for a day and did not come, fled in a hurry. The charred female corpse found in the mourning hall in the fire also confirmed the testimony of the guards, the palace maid, and Li Min's personal maid Yao'er. Lin Yueyuan's identity could be vaguely identified from the tattered clothes on the broken female corpse. The other two were completely burned to black ash and turned into wisps of green smoke.

When she learned that Li Min was unfortunately buried in the fire, she regretted and suffered, and cried in front of Li Jin, almost fainting. Li Jin was impressed by her devotion to the Lord, and he rewarded her with great rewards afterwards.

In addition to her, almost all the slaves and maids in the womb of the owner of the accident were severely punished, especially the guards who followed Li Can into the fire to save people, they were even tortured and almost killed, but they never changed their words, nor did they shout grievances, and silently endured all the punishments.

The two masters died, but none of the other palace guards died, but everyone was burned to varying degrees.

Tanxiang Palace was burned down, and Li Tan's body had nowhere to store. Fortunately, three days have passed, and it is time to settle into the earth. Li Jin immediately ordered a team of forbidden troops to escort Li Tan's body to the mausoleum for burial.

The incident happened suddenly, and many of the funeral etiquette were omitted, not to mention that it was an eventful time at that time, Li Jin really didn't have the heart to care about the people who should not have lived in this world in his plan, and he didn't investigate and investigate, so the body was transported out of the palace in such a hurry.

The forbidden army transported Li Tan's coffin out of the city early in the morning, and walked for a day, when the stars were rising, they saw the horse grass of the post house not far from the forest, and they were overjoyed, so they accelerated the speed of the whip horse, and hurried to eat and rest.

Halfway through the road, the accident suddenly changed, the rear wheel of the carriage was stuck by a stone on the side of the road, and with a "bang", the people on the bumpy car were shaken. Everyone stopped, the leader of the team cursed, dismounted to check, and when he just approached, there was a noise in the huge coffin. The crowd was horrified, and retreated, and the crows crowed overhead, and a timid soldier screamed in fright, and was whipped by the frightened general, and drank back.

The general boldly moved forward, trying to lie down and listen to the movement, but a wave of thought came from inside, like the sound of hitting metal, beating everyone's eardrums one by one.

Some of the soldiers began to exclaim that they were haunted and cheated on corpses.

The general swallowed nervously and watched the coffin vibrate with the sound.

With a snap, the iron nail used to seal the coffin in the upper left corner fell off and fell to the ground. The Zongren was shocked to understand the meaning of the contents of the coffin, and it was about to hang down the nails on the coffin and escape from it.

Some soldiers began to drop their weapons and flee for their lives, while others clung to the surrounding tree trunks and froze on the ground, and the general's head was covered with cold sweat, dense like the vapor of a steamer.

The soldiers persuaded the generals to flee with them, but the generals stood still and did not move, as if they had been nailed to their souls, and he was both frightened and curious in his heart, and he had never heard the old people talk about the gods and ghosts.

The heavy iron nails around the coffin kept falling off, and the fear of the soldiers increased to the extreme. The soldiers fled for their lives one after another, and the general finally couldn't help but stop it, and gave an order to kill anyone who escaped on the spot.

The soldiers leaned together in groups of three or five, and one or two of the cowardly lieutenants mocked them mercilessly to strengthen their own courage.

The iron nails on the coffin were knocked out completely, and there was no sound for the time being. The sky was getting darker and darker, and the soldiers lit their torches, reflecting the gray and dark official road like an underworld.

However, after a brief lull, the coffin continued to make a noise, and the lid made a dull and cumbersome sound, and then they saw that the lid was slightly tilted, and the spirits inside seemed to be moving the lid.

At this time, someone proposed to seal it before the contents came out, and go to a nearby town to find a Taoist priest to seal it with a charm. But there are some people who object, after all, it is the body of the Seventh Highness lying inside, if he is really unwilling to be lonely and resurrected, or turn into a ghost and wander out, how dare they commit the next offense. The general was even more irritated by the endless arguments, and he yelled at everyone to shut up, and then knelt down tremblingly on the spot and arched his hand: "Seven...... Your Royal Highness, the small one is the general of the Chongying Palace, who is indifferent, and was ordered to escort His Highness's body for burial, I don't know if the villain has any inadequate service or His Highness has something unfinished, it is difficult to feel at ease, and please ask His Highness to make it clear that the small one must be well cooked. With that, he turned back and ordered the crowd to kneel.

He waited with his head down for a long time, and the sound in the coffin stopped. There was silence all around, like a pool of death. After not replying for a long time, he said indifferently and courageously: "If Your Highness has no instructions, then please go on the road with peace of mind, and don't wander in the world anymore." Please allow the minister to reseal the coffin. He turned his head and waved to the soldiers behind him, and everyone was afraid to step forward, and urged several times, and only a few stood up with knives without fear of death.

At this time, a sentence floated faintly from the coffin: "Yin Yin, you left five people and two horses, and left with all the other horses and horses, and never came back." “

Everyone was frightened and silent, indifferent thought that they were hallucinating, and there were really human voices in the coffin. He forced himself to compose, he hesitated for a moment to ask again, but the ghost in the coffin seemed a little annoyed, and gave him a shout to hurry up and do so.

Yin Mo stood up slowly, only feeling that it was inappropriate, so that it would not violate the emperor's order, but he did not dare to offend the ghosts and gods, so he ordered a few darers, negotiated with them to let them stay, and tied the two good horses to the side ones, and took the rest of the people to the post station to wait for a few days before making plans.

Those five people were also brave, and after Yin Mo left, they did not flee from the battle, but obediently waited for the dispatch.

After a long time, the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps faded away, and the voice in the coffin sounded again: "The five of you lowered your heads, walked over, and moved the lid of the coffin. ”

The five of them understood it in a row, so they moved the heavy coffin lid according to the order, and the coffin was pitch black, and one of them couldn't help but sneak a glance at it with his afterglow, and a handful of choking white powder suddenly squirted out of it. The five people inhaled white powder, and all of them felt dizzy, their limbs were weak, their eyes were blurred, and they staggered for a while, and fell to the ground one after another.

After they lost consciousness, four fingers appeared on the edge of the coffin, and then the cyan sleeves flashed, and a figure quickly jumped out from inside, he looked sideways at the five people lying on the ground, put his hand into the coffin as black as hell and said, "They are all unconscious, come out quickly." ”

A hand reached out from inside and climbed up his arm, and with a hard pull, a girl in a red dress jumped out of it. After she came out, she jumped on the spot twice, shook her arms and arms, and exhaled deeply: "This day can suffocate me to death." ”

She threw away the extinguished fire in her hand and shouted at the coffin, "Ah Min, quick, I'll pull you out." After speaking, she reached out again and pulled out the slender and tall Li Min.

Li Min's feet just touched the ground, as if stepping on cotton, Lin Yueyuan half-hugged her, her sallow face showed a sad look, and she sneezed a few times.

Li Can turned over the five people on the ground, and the five of them were indeed so dazzled that they passed out, he untied the belts of the five people and trapped their hands and feet, and asked Lin Yueyuan for more ecstasy and poured them down.

"According to your irrigation method, it is better to beat them to death with one palm." Lin Yueyuan shouted at him, "If you eat too much, you will die." ”

"Then I can't do that much." Li Can patted the white powder on his hands, and tore off the hem of their clothes to plug their mouths. Then they were thrown one by one into a pile of dead grass in the forest by the roadside.

Lin Yueyuan helped Li Min to sit down under the tree, and also rushed over to help, and asked while busy: "You just let them go like this, don't be afraid that they will sue Li Jin." ”

"Killing people on the official road will only expose you faster" Li Can carried the last person to the forest, Lin Yueyuan picked up the knives dropped by the soldiers and kept them for backup.

"What's more, even if we kill them all, Li Tan's coffin is not delivered on time, and the officials guarding the mausoleum will report it truthfully, and this matter cannot be concealed at all, and Li Jin will know sooner or later. Rather, it is better to pretend to be a god and deceive them, so that if he cannot figure it out for a while, he may buy us some time. Li Can continued to explain.

Lin Yueyuan nodded and sighed: "Yes, it's just that we escaped like this, and there are too many people involved." When Li Jin finds out, I'm afraid that a few of your subordinates and debtors won't be able to save them. ”

"So we have to live harder, and one day in the future we will kill back to Chang'an and avenge the dead!" Li Can's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said categorically.

Lin Yueyuan paused at his feet, only to feel cold teeth, looking back at Li Tan's coffin, Li Min's sad sobs came from his ears.

The two looked at each other with the same sadness in their eyes, and they walked silently into the woods without stopping or comforting them.

They cut down some dead branches and covered the five of them tightly.

Walking out of the forest, Li Min was still crying, this day she was lying in the compartment under the coffin, not daring to make a sound, as if she was really in hell, as if she had been wandering in the underworld in a trance, if it weren't for Li Can and Lin Yueyuan's body temperature warming her cold heart, she almost couldn't help but scream loudly.

The two returned to the coffin and worked together to remove the coffin from the carriage. Li Can untied the torch used for lighting from the tree, Lin Yueyuan jumped into the coffin again with the firelight, solemnly untied the robe on Li Tan's corpse, and took out the edict and national seal hidden on him. Then he took out the wrapped clothes, shoes and socks from the compartment of the coffin, as well as a bag of life-saving gold bars and some broken silver and fire folds for the journey.

It was this coffin compartment that was originally used to house the burial utensils that saved their lives.

The two of them packed their things and carried them on their backs. Lin Yueyuan was lying on the coffin and looked at Li Tan, he was as peaceful and quiet as before his death, his body was covered with a faint fragrance of medicine, her face that she would never forget in this life was about to disappear in this world, she blinked her eyes and couldn't help but shed tears of incomprehension.

Li Can patted her on the shoulder, and she hurriedly turned around and dodged to the side. He raised his head in the night, which was often like water, took a deep breath, and then lowered the torch, facing the corner of the coffin, the orange flame had been consumed for a long time, and finally spread along the corner, bringing the fire to every corner of the coffin.

The flame shone brightly and hugged the black coffin tightly, and the coffin instantly resembled a brilliant fireball, constantly releasing more brilliant light, as if Li Tan's bumpy and short life, burning himself for the sake of others, finally emitted a strange and dazzling brilliance on the day of his death.

After the flame was extinguished, Li Can took out a white porcelain bottle from the baggage and collected the ashes scattered on the ground, this was the last trace of thought that Li Tan left them, even if it had been turned into powder, Lin Yueyuan, who was holding the porcelain bottle in his arms, could still feel the warmth inside through the thick bottle wall, which was a special temperature belonging to his relatives.

Lin Yueyuan handed over the porcelain vase carrying Li Tan's soul to Li Min, in order to fill her sad and empty heart, and sure enough, Li Min, who took the porcelain vase, instantly quieted down, she was like a lost child smelling her mother's body fragrance, and the feeling of safety and steadfastness filled her heart, in fact, Li Tan never left, he has always been with them.

The two untied the reins, Lin Yueyuan and Li Min rode a horse together, Li Can had a horse for each person, and the three of them did not dare to stay, and braved the north wind all the way south overnight.

Because Li Min's health has been sick, the trips of the three of them are quite slow, and the weather is getting colder and colder, although they go south, there is also rain and snow along the way. They did not dare to take the official roads too publicly, took the secluded paths, and detoured many mountain roads, and did not dare to blatantly enter the towns they passed by without customs clearance documents.

Although Li Can is also a delicate child in the palace, but she is better than her mental fortitude, she is strong and strong, Lin Yueyuan has been used to beating since she was a child, and she has been traveling south and north like a boy since she was a child, I don't know how hard it is, but Li Min suffered, although she has never enjoyed great blessings since she was a child, and she has been bullied everywhere, but she has not received the bitterness of sleeping outside.

Li Can is very excited about this journey, although every day like a foot monk, but what he has seen and heard on this road has enriched his experience, increased his knowledge, he has read thousands of books, there are hills and valleys in his heart, and now he has traveled thousands of miles, understanding the people's livelihood and suffering, he is extremely excited these days, and from time to time there will be a lot of wonderful ideas. Lin Yueyuan occasionally laughed at his fuss with a habitual attitude.

Although this road is full of hardships and tribulations, it is not only sorrowful, Lin Yueyuan will still fight with Li Can from time to time, Li Min occasionally sees new things, and will also give birth to a bit of liveliness, in the past, he was not happy to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas in the palace, but now he is very happy to pick a wild fruit on the side of the road. Life is like this, only the combination of sweet, sour, spicy and salty can be wonderful.

Unconsciously, they have been walking for a few months, in the blink of an eye is the middle of spring, they enjoy the heavy spring along the way The mood is also much lighter, they are about to change to the waterway, to the east to Jinling, these months of wind and rain, trekking mountains and rivers although hard, but at least did not meet the killer sent by Li Jin, once the boat into the river, it is even more difficult to hunt them down, seeing that they are about to enter the sea like a fish, Li Can was finally able to settle down and sleep well.

Lin Yueyuan, who has no heart and lungs, talks and laughs during the day, watching the scenery like a tourist, but at night her true emotions are revealed from tossing and turning, and sleepless nights, in fact, each of them has never come out of grief, but Li Min is too obvious, Li Can is too calm, and Lin Yueyuan is too deliberate.

They know their own hearts and never want to touch their wounds in front of others, so they always have a bit of a forced smile.