"Don't worry, let's go out." He comforted him so much, picked up Xilingyue and put it flat on the ground, and jumped out of the bottom of the pit himself.

Xilingyue couldn't wait to look out, and shouted Xiao Yi's name blankly, "Brother Yi, you come out!" Where are you? Yue'er forgive you! I forgive you! ”

However, there was no response, only her echo resounded in this empty Taiping Mountain, lonely and desolate.

In the face of this devastation, she also knew that Xiao Yi was no longer alive, so she couldn't help but sit on the sand and cry bitterly.

Just last night, before the cave collapsed, the stone walls had begun to peel off, and she avoided her foot injury, and was almost hit by a boulder several times. Xiao Zhiwu also protected his seriously injured son and dodged in embarrassment, thinking that it was too bumpy, and Xiao Yi, who was in a coma, woke up again.

Maybe it was because of the return to the light, Xiao Yi was unusually awake at that time, and he did the last thing with the only strength he had left-a handful of pushing her into the pit, reluctantly moving the boulder and stuck at the mouth of the pit, and said hurriedly, "Yue'er hold on, King Fu will come to save you." He was never heard from again.

Recalling the last scene, Xilingyue couldn't contain the grief in her heart, and fell on Li Chengxuan's shoulder and cried silently.

Brother Yi did not live up to his original oath after all, lived for her and died for her.

It was she who failed him, causing him to be seriously injured and buried at the foot of Taiping Mountain.

And those beautiful pasts, those sweet memories, will also be buried here with him, and it will be difficult to find them again.

I don't know when a light rain fell in the sky, hitting Xilingyue. In a trance, she seemed to have returned to the scene when she was sixteen years old, when she and Xiao Yi stood under the peach blossom tree, looking at each other and smiling.

Persuade the king not to spare the golden clothes,

Persuade the monarch to cherish his youth.

Flowers can be folded straight and must be folded,

Don't wait for no flowers and empty branches.

At that time, the peach blossoms fell on them, petal by petal, like raindrops falling in front of her, just like her mood.

How happy I was at the time, how sad I was at this moment.

"Xiling, let's go." Li Chengxuan picked her up horizontally and slowly left on the mess all over the ground.

Xilingyue lay in his arms with tears in her eyes, hugged his neck, and unconsciously looked back at the Taiping Mountain.

The Creator is so powerful and so freewheeling that the mountains and rivers of the world are like playthings in the palm of his hand, and they can collapse and crack with the slightest flick of his fingers.

Human life is like an ant, small and insignificant, not worth mentioning.

In the mist of smoke and rain, the scorched earth and sores of the mountains seemed to be invisible, and the heavens and the earth were bright again.

Thousands of years from now, will anyone still remember all this?

I remember that countless living lives were buried here, and I witnessed a catastrophe that ended without a disease with my flesh and blood.

Some people wake up from dreams, some people get drunk.

Some people's dreams come true, and some people's dreams are broken.

Two months later, Chang'an City, Wu Yuanheng's mansion study.

He was looking for something on the bookshelf, and the room was a little messy, when the housekeeper walked in, "Master, Pei Xingli Pei Shaoqing asks to see you." ”

"Please." Wu Yuanheng stopped moving.

The housekeeper specifically asked, "Is it to invite to the front hall or ......?"

"Invite him to the study."

This answer surprised the butler a little. Because not everyone can enter Wu Yuanheng's study, even if the ordinary guests are high-ranking officials in the court, or even Wu Yuanheng's own protégés, most of them are talking in the front hall, and there are very few people who can enter this study.

The housekeeper naturally didn't know that Pei Xingli had left an excellent impression on Wu Yuanheng in a rebellion two months ago, plus his father Pei Yan and Wu Yuanheng were good, and now he regarded Pei Xingli as his own nephew.

The housekeeper didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly invited the guests to come in and hurriedly served tea.

"The younger generation has seen Wu Xiangye." Pei Xingli stepped into the study and bowed down.

Wu Yuanheng hurriedly helped him and invited him to the table, "Hey, Pei Xian's nephew is really a coincidence, and a moment later, the official plans to enter the palace to face the saint." ”

"What a coincidence, the junior just came out of the palace," Pei Xingli said with a smile, "I have come to bid you farewell." ”

"Oh? Where is the virtuous nephew going? ”

"The younger generation has received the Holy Decree today, and he has been transferred from Weiwei Shaoqing to Hedong Order, and he will go to his post when the clear order is issued." "In such a hurry?" Wu Yuanheng was slightly surprised, but when he thought of what happened recently, he could understand him.

Just half a month ago, their group returned to Chang'an from Wuning County, and Li Chengxuan and Xilingyue also returned. Within a few days, there was a funeral in the eldest princess's mansion, announcing that the world's beloved daughter Guo Lingyue was seriously ill and died, and the marriage between the Pei family and the Guo family was also stopped.

But those who are familiar with the inside story know that Pei Xingli's fiancée is not only not dead, but now she is still living in King Fu's mansion to recuperate. Looking at the meaning of the Son of Heaven, he intends to rebuild his brotherhood with King Fu, and Xilingyue's identity is delicate and her future is uncertain, so it is impossible to marry Pei Xingli.

Presumably he was also extremely hurt and refused to stay in Chang'an.

Wu Yuanheng couldn't help but sigh, "The virtuous nephew is too anxious, with your merits this time, there is definitely more than one position of Hedong Order, you can wait." ”

Unexpectedly, Pei Xingli looked very open, "This is the younger generation's own choice, Hedong is the ancestral source of my Pei family, and there are still hundreds of clansmen living there, and it is also a beautiful thing for the younger generations to return to their hometowns and reunite with their clansmen." ”

"Listen to you, it is." Wu Yuanheng responded in his mouth, but he still felt sorry in his heart. wanted Pei Xing to set up a talent, but he was delayed in Zhenhai for several years, and finally promoted to the history of Qinzhou because of his merits, and he did not go to the post, and was reappointed as Weiwei Shaoqing. Now it's good, I didn't find a good place to serve as a assassin, nor did I stay in Chang'an as a Beijing official, I went back to my hometown, and my family affairs were not settled.

Pei Xingli knew that he was sighing for his choice, so he hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "I heard my father say that Xiangye is also rushing back to Xichuan?" ”

"Yes, Xichuan is the nest of the Xiao family after all, and the saint is afraid that the rest of the party will slip through the net, so he ordered the official to go back to deal with the aftermath as soon as possible." Wu Yuanheng took the opportunity to mention, "You go back and convey to Ling Zun that this official will leave in three days, so that he doesn't have to send it." When the official returns to Beijing at the end of the year to report on his work, he will make an appointment with Lingzun to get together. ”

"Yes, the juniors must convey it." Pei Xingli's original intention was to resign, but after the words were finished, he didn't want to stay for long, so he got up and said goodbye, "Xiangye is busy with government affairs, so the juniors won't bother you, today Dr. Bai and Guo Jun made an appointment with the juniors to eat and drink." ”

Hearing these two official positions, Wu Yuanheng was still a little uncomfortable for a while. Half a month ago, they pacified the rebels and returned to the dynasty, and now on the merits, Bai Juyi was awarded the left legacy, and was also pleased to be married by the Son of Heaven himself, and is about to marry the famous and noble daughter Yang.

Guo Zhongting also shouted for the saint to give him a marriage, and officially asked the saint to marry the descendant of Hu Guogong, Qin Se, the county lord of Qizhou. How could the saint deliberately make things difficult, so he had to go to Nanpu County to be the county guard, claiming that he had to properly dispose of Wuning County, check the huge amount of money in Taiping Mountain, and recruit the local secret guards smoothly before allowing the county lord of Qizhou to marry him. There is a deadline for this task, within one year.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuanheng couldn't help but smile and said, "You tell Guo Junshou on behalf of this official that if he encounters any trouble in Nanpu, he can send someone to Chengdu Mansion to tell him, and this official will do his best to help." Also, congratulations to Mr. Bai...... No, it's Dr. Bai, so he said that on his big day, the official has his own congratulatory gift. ”

Pei Xingli responded with a smile, and was about to say goodbye again, but Wu Yuanheng remembered one more thing, "Oh, by the way, have you found the corpses of the Xiao family's father and son?" ”

"I heard Guo Junshou say that Xiao Zhiwu's body was found, and he recognized it by his clothes. Xiao Yi's body has not been found. Pei Xingli told the truth.

This is also Guo Zhongting's biggest headache. When today's son is suspicious, especially the Xiao family's father and son, who are in serious trouble, and they don't see the corpse, he won't rest assured. But the Son of Heaven did not know the situation of the collapse of Taiping Mountain that day, they all saw it with their own eyes, how difficult it was to find a person from countless boulders, sediment, turf, and clods?

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