The morning phoenix, which was supposed to be a warm sun, was gloomy, the sky was dark, and only an orange sun hung in the sky. The glazed palace has also lost its former dazzling brilliance, and everything looks dull as ash.

In front of the door of the carved phoenix lattice hall with vermilion lacquer and gold, Li Ni, who was pale, sat weakly on the cushion and leaned on the table.

She had been sick for a long time, but she had only recently felt a little better, and she really wanted to see the scene outside the house and absorb the clear breath outside, so she discussed with Xuan Ming to sit under the eaves in front of the door for a while.

She fell ill suddenly, and the imperial doctor said that it was caused by panic and depression, and sudden sadness.

It turns out that a person is going to be heartbroken and painful like this. The scars of the sudden death of her father and queen mother have not healed, and the horror of being killed by the ghost of the giant wolf is uncertain, and she wants to stay alone with Xuan Ming in this strange place like a cage because of the war, but even so, cruel things still follow.

On that day, she combed her braided bun, wore a special gold silk bright red lapel narrow sleeved robe made by the princess, stood sideways in the grassy open space with a bow and arrows in her hand, and there was an arrow target not far in front of her, Xuan Ming and Nangong Jingyan stood beside her, the naked and emerald tailed young red bird who was injured by Jingyan in the Chaoge Flower Field and was saved by her stopped on her shoulder, and not far from them stopped two big and one small three horses, they tapped their hooves on the grass, occasionally snorting, one of them was a slightly smaller horse with a red body was hers, she liked it very much.

Li Ni, who was about to be thirteen years old, took the arrow and pulled the bow, held his breath and concentrated, "Whoosh, pop!", the feather arrow hit the bull's-eye in front of him, and the danque also flew happily.

Li Ni happily looked at Nangong Jingyan on the side, and then at Xuanming, both of whom smiled appreciatively at her.

When she drew the arrow from her quiver again, a soldier in Xuanjin armor staggered in the distance, it was the guard that Li Yao had left for them.

Li Ni, who was holding the arrow, lowered his hand and stood in place, looking at the guard who was running hard, and became a little uneasy.

The guards ran up to them panting, knelt down, and cried out to her in mournful voice, "Eldest Princess, King Yao has been defeated!"

As soon as Li Ni's hand loosened, the bow and arrow fell to the ground, and Xuan Ming asked eagerly, "Where is King Yao?"

"King Yao, he died in battle!" the guard cried out.

Xuan Ming was stunned for a moment, and then asked, but his voice suddenly became small and trembling, "Where is my emperor?"

"My emperor escaped alone, but he has not been found so far, and his life and death are uncertain!"

When Li Ni heard this, there was a buzz in his head, and he couldn't help but let out a soft groan, and sat down on the ground with no strength.

Jingyan hurriedly came to help her, supporting her crooked body. Uncle Wang died in battle, Yu'er's life and death were uncertain, only these two things echoed in her mind, tears suddenly fell, her heart suddenly tightened and ached, she heard Jingyan anxiously ask: "What about my father?

The guards cried and shouted: "The Chunyue army has not been rescued, and has now entered the upper capital!"

Li Ni's eyes finally darkened, and he was no longer conscious.

This time, their Li clan's Longxiang army was completely annihilated, and her uncle Li Yao, who had galloped through the barbarian land, was killed in a heroic battle, and when she was unconscious, she vaguely heard the battle report that when she found Uncle Wang, he was left with a bruised torso, and his head had been cut off by the barbarians. Prince Li Lie's line was also killed in battle. Whether it is relatives or those familiar voices that have been together day and night in the evil city, all are gone. Her poor twin brother is still missing. The princess and concubine also fell seriously ill due to grief.

She lay on the sickbed for more than a month. At first, every time I thought about this, my heart was sad, and my eyes were red and swollen from crying. Xuan Ming took care of her day and night, Xuan Ming was not as sad and flustered as her, she was still firm, but she no longer smiled, but Li Ni knew that she must also be sad and sad.

More than ten days later, when they paid tribute to Uncle Wang, almost desperate, a fast horse from Di Jun brought a message that Emperor Li Yu was safe and sound, and ascended to the upper capital, and the Li family succeeded to the throne, and the Sheng Dynasty was extended.

When Xuan Ming eagerly came to the couch to inform her of the news, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, tears fell from the corners of her eyes again, and she hugged Xuan Ming and cried.

They are going to Dijun, Yu'er is isolated at the moment, and she must be in a dangerous situation. But her body has been recovering slowly, and she has not been able to travel far yet. She looked at the dim sun in the sky and couldn't help but sigh again.

Xuan Ming walked up to her with the decoction, blew it and let her drink it, and said casually: "Nangong Jingyan came to see you again, and you are about on the way here." ”

Li Ni was stunned, looked up at Xuan Ming and said, "Xuan Ming, I'm going into the house." Xuan Ming handed the medicine bowl to the maid, stretched out his hand to help her up, and helped her to the door. "No, I still don't want to see him. Li Ni said softly.

She sat down in front of the desk after entering the house, and after a short time, the maid came in to deliver the news. She looked at Mingming, who nodded and opened the door and went out.

"Eldest princess, her?" Jingyan's concerned voice came from outside the door, "Let me see her, shall I?" he pleaded.

Xuan Ming's cold voice came, "She doesn't want to see you." ”

"She hates me...... But ......" Nangong Jingyan sighed, and after a while, he heard the sound of his footsteps leaving.

Li Ni stood up, walked to the door, stepped out of the door and stood beside Xuan Ming, looking ahead in a daze, there was no one in front of him.

"I said that the people of the Nangong family, the princess still has little contact. Xuan Ming said.

"Mingming, take me to the street one more time. Li Ni said as if he hadn't heard.

They were going to leave here and go to Dijun, and she thought she should buy a gift for Jingyan as a farewell. He was an upright teenager who treated her very well, teaching her archery, riding horses with her, and telling her about the history of Chunyue, which she didn't really care about.

She finally begged Xuan Ming to take her out on the street. She was still weak, and after walking with her head down for a while, she was panting and breaking out in a cold sweat, but she held on to her silent, not letting the roar that followed her see it.

The streets of Chaohuang City were still bustling, like a peaceful and prosperous world when nothing had happened, but she was not interested in all kinds of shops or street jugglers. She knew that Jing Yan liked bows and arrows, so she asked Xuan Ming to take her to a bow shop.

Xu saw that they were dressed in brocade clothes and asked them if they were buying bows to give away, and the shopkeeper personally enthusiastically picked up all kinds of good bows hanging on the wall one by one to show them an introduction.

Li Ni didn't listen much, she looked around, and suddenly felt a chill in her heart, no matter how good the bow is, it is used to hunt and even kill. She noticed a wrench on the cabinet.

Li Ni moved up, lowered his head and looked carefully, although the bronze and simple wrench fingers were a little old, but the texture was excellent, and a circle of auspicious clouds was engraved on it, and the whole item seemed to exude the secret light of the ancient. She thought that although this wrench was small, it could protect his hand, and when he shot arrows in the future, she might still be able to think of him. She looked up at Mingming. Xuan Ming nodded, and then negotiated with the shopkeeper.

While she waited for Lumming to buy the wrench, she looked at the bows again with nothing to do. "Ni'er!" she suddenly heard a clear voice call her, and looked sideways, but there was no one.

"Ni'er!" she heard again, she looked at the loud sound, she didn't hear it, she was still checking out, she followed the sound to look for it, walked out the door, and went to the bustling street.

She listened to the sound like a jingyan, but she couldn't tell for sure, besides, there were no acquaintances in the street at the moment, people were busy laughing, and some people looked at her as they walked by, but they couldn't tell who called her.

"Ni'er!" she heard well, and took a few steps forward, but found nothing.

After pausing for a moment, she returned to the bunk in confusion. Xuan Ming was no longer in the shop, and the shopkeeper said that she had gone out to look for her.

Li Ni was a little anxious now, and hurriedly went out, and got into the crowd, "Xuan Ming!" She called out in a trembling voice, sweating on her body, but her voice was easily drowned out by the noise of the market, she looked again and again looking for Xuan Ming's figure, but she couldn't see it.

"Mingming!" she walked for a while, discerning everyone who walked by, and when she was about to cry, her arm was pulled hard, she looked sideways, and Mingming, with an anxious expression, found her, "Come back with me." ”

"Hmm!" they both breathed a sigh of relief.

The two hurriedly walked back, and after walking for a while, Li Ni saw a dirty girl in ragged clothes sitting paralyzed on the side of the road.

She hurriedly pulled the sleeves of her coat, she couldn't bear to see this, she always had to help.

Xuan Ming stopped and looked, pulled her to the child, took out the money and handed it to the other party.

The girl looked up at them, her face covered in dirt and her eyes large but a little gray, and she shook her head at them and licked her chapped lips.

Li Ni understood something, pulled Xuanming's sleeve again, and pointed to the food shop not far away.

Xuan Ming looked back at her, shook his head helplessly, and dragged her to the food shop to buy snacks.

"Ni'er!" Li Ni, who was waiting behind Xuan Ming, heard a call again, and she subconsciously looked back, and the crowd was still the same.

"Ni'er, I'm here! you have to be strong!" this time it was real, she hurried a few steps to look for it, only to see the talented child in front of the crowd glancing at her, and then walked forward.

"Hey!" she tried to stop her, but when she saw that she was leaving without looking back, she hurried after her.

But the child walked very fast, walked for a short time, and then looked back at her, Li Ni's weak body could not catch up with her, and before she knew how far she had gone, she would disappear into the crowd and never see her again. Li Ni looked back, and he couldn't see Xuan Ming for a long time.

"Ni'er, I'm here!" the call came from the side again, like Jingyan's voice but not, with some nervousness but not like it was trying to hurt her, Li Ni turned around and walked to find it.

She walked into an alley where no one was around. The noise of the right talent is hidden behind him.

"Who is it?" she asked, timidly.

No one answered her. But a black-clothed figure appeared in front of him.

The sudden appearance of the man in black made her stand still in fear, and she tried to turn around and run away but felt her body freeze uncontrollably.

Almost at this moment, the man in black with his head down actually came to her, he raised his head, and his emaciated wrinkled cheeks were revealed in front of Li Ni's eyes. She seemed to have seen him, but before she could remember anything, she saw his lips pursed, as if he had recited an incomprehensible incantation, and then a dark green incense burner crossed in front of her eyes, and a strange fragrance rushed into her nose, and a trembling jingling sound sounded in her ears, and her eyes instantly darkened, as if she had fallen into the abyss, and was no longer conscious.