Chapter XXXIII: National Mourning

When Xia Zimo left the palace, it was still raining heavily. The horse's hooves made a splash when they stepped on the stagnant water on the ground. He grasped the reins in one hand and the sword in the other. When he left the palace, he still wore a dragon robe with gold dragon pattern on a black background in order to have time to change his regular clothes. This dress was enough to represent his identity, and everyone he met along the way knelt down and saluted when they saw him.

The heavy rain wet Xia Zimo's hair, and the water slid down his cheeks, as if God was crying for him again. The cold rain did not extinguish the anger in Xia Zimo's heart. He could guess that it was King Chen who killed Qiu Luoxue, so his current destination was King Chen's fief. Hanshan has been following Xia Zimo to protect his safety.

Xia Zimo hurried out of the city, and the soldiers guarding the city immediately went back to report when they saw him leaving the city. Xia Zimo walked more than ten miles outside the city, and Xia Ziyan caught up with him on horseback, accompanied by Jin Fu. No one had an umbrella, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was much darker than usual because of the rain.

"Brother Huang......" Xia Ziyan's horse stopped in front of Xia Zimo's horse, making Xia Zimo unable to move forward.

"Get out of the way." Xia Zimo said coldly that with his current state of mind, the people who stopped him would not have good results.

"Brother Huang, you can't go to Uncle Chen." Xia Ziyan said.

"Don't call him Uncle Wang." Xia Zimo said angrily, "Since he was opposed to his father, he has not been a member of the royal family. ”

"It was he who killed Luo Xue, and I want him to pay for it with blood." Xia Zimo continued.

"You're alone now, you can't kill him at all. Besides, if you kill him, what will the world think of you? Where is Xia's country? Xia Ziyan said, speaking in the heavy rain had to raise his voice, it sounded like he was shouting.

"I don't care." Xia Zimo said, "The people of the world, the Xia family...... I don't care, the people I care about are dead, what else is there to care about. ”

"Brother Huang doesn't care, but Luo Xue does." Xia Ziyan said, "Because she cares about you, what people in the world think of you, and what the Xia family thinks, she will resolutely resign when she knows that there is danger." ”

"She gave her life to leave, because she didn't want the imperial brother to become a faint monarch in the eyes of the world, but now you go to kill King Chen, kill blood relatives, jealousy of virtuous ability, and the image of violent and mediocre will be determined." Xia Ziyan continued to persuade.

Xia Zimo became crazy because of Qiu Luoxue, and moving out of Qiu Luoxue to block the way was naturally the most effective. If Qiu Luoxue was alive, she must have thought so.

After Xia Ziyan finished speaking, he jumped off the horse, knelt on the ground and said, "Brother Huang, please think twice and return to the capital quickly, there are still many things waiting for you to deal with."

"Please think twice." Jin Fu and Hanshan also knelt down and said.

Thinking of when Qiu Luoxue left, Xia Zimo's mood calmed down a lot. Yes, she left for him, knowing that she might be killed in the future, but for him, in order not to make him an incompetent monarch in the eyes of the world, and for his country. She resolutely chose to leave.

Thinking of Qiu Luoxue's tearful eyes, the sadness in Xia Zimo's heart could not be broken. He didn't expect that his impression of Qiu Luoxue's last appearance would be tearful.

He once again felt powerless, although he was the most noble man in Great Qin, although he had unsurpassed rights, he still couldn't protect his lover, and he couldn't avenge her.

He could not express this feeling of powerlessness and anger, and he jumped from his horse with a shout, and waved his sword wildly in the pouring rain, as if the rain were his enemies.

"Your Majesty ......" Jin Fu looked at Xia Zimo very distressed, and wanted to step forward to stop him.

Xia Ziyan grabbed Jin Fu and said, "Leave him alone, if he vents it like this, he will feel better."

Xia Zimo tirelessly swung his sword in the heavy rain for a few times, and finally collapsed to the ground tiredly. Lying on the muddy ground, looking up at the gray sky, the icy rain hitting his face made his consciousness more sober. In front of his eyes, he seemed to see Qiu Luoxue's crying face when she left.

"You said I would abandon you, and you said you would wait for me where I was. But before I could go find you, you left......"

A line of water slipped down from the corner of Xia Zimo's eyes, I don't know if it was his tears or the rain in the sky. But whatever it is, it has a sad tinge. This summer, it is destined to be shrouded in sad rain.

"Luo Xue's business...... Is it true? ”

When Xia Ziyan returned to the palace, his body was already soaked, and his body was slimy, he changed his clothes after bathing, and when he came out, he saw Su Muyi outside.

Su Muyi also received the news of Qiu Luoxue's death, but she really couldn't believe it.

"It's true." Xia Ziyan said that he didn't want to admit it, but that was the truth.

After confirming, Su Muyi's tears fell, and she cried and said: "How is this possible, she wrote to me a few days ago, saying that she was going to Nanliang to play, and asked me if I wanted to be together." But...... How could she, how could such a thing happen? ”

Su Muyi couldn't cry anymore when she said this, Xia Ziyan hugged her when she saw this, and said, "The world is unpredictable, don't be too sad."

On this day, the Imperial Palace, the Yanwang Mansion, and the Prime Minister's Mansion were all replaced with white lanterns as one of the forms of commemorating the autumn Luoxue.

"The Qiu clan, since the founding of the country, has made a lot of contributions to Great Qin, and has cultivated a total of one hundred and eighty-one prime ministers, all of whom are good ministers. Qiu Luoxue, the last bloodline of the Qiu clan, was diligent and promising when he served as prime minister, and the solution of the Connecticut famine and counterfeit money rebellion, and the realization of the Triple Alliance, Qiu Cheng was quite the first contributor. Helplessly, he was jealous of his talents, and Prime Minister Qiu was unfortunately killed after leaving office. Every time I think of this, I feel sad, so I sent a special escort team to welcome the coffin of Prime Minister Qiu back to Beijing and bury him in the imperial mausoleum. In the first and second half of the country, no music and dancing are allowed, and white lanterns are lit inside and outside the capital to show memorials. ”

On the second day, Xia Zimo issued such a holy decree and sent it to the whole country. And he himself did not go to court on the second day, and he did not go out for a day in the Qilong Palace.

In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and the channels for disseminating news were also inconvenient. So everyone received the news of Qiu Luoxue's death at different times, but they all showed sadness without exception.

Su Mufei, who was in Nanliang, was the first to receive the obituary of Qiu Luoxue's death, and after receiving the news, he was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Spread my order, from now on, the whole country will not be allowed to play music and dance, every household will put on white lights, and the whole country will mourn Prime Minister Qiu."

"Your Majesty, is it necessary for us to do this? This Qiu Prime Minister is a person from Daqin, and he has nothing to do with Nanliang, so why should he ......? The eunuch beside him asked.

"Qiu Luoxue is the prime minister of Great Qin, and at the same time the minister of the Seven Kingdoms, Nanliang is one of the Seven Kingdoms, so it is natural to pay tribute." Su Mufei said.

After that, Su Mufei retired from the eunuch next to him, alone in a daze. In his life, Qiu Luoxue was only passing by for a short time, and there were not many memories about her. But for some reason, his memory of Qiu Luoxue is clearer than everyone else.

Nan Liang, like Daqin, issued a decree of national mourning, and soon received a response from Kitazawa.

"There are not many women in the world who have the ability to make a world in the world of men, and Qiu Luoxue is one. It's a pity. "This is the evaluation of the eldest princess of Kitazawa on Qiu Luoxue.

After Nanliang Beize issued a mourning decree, other small countries also issued decrees, after all, the work of face still has to be done. After this, the Seven Kingdoms were all a plain pickaxe to commemorate the death of Qiu Luoxue.

Nie Yuanren was at the border pass and received the news a little late. The letter was written to him by Xia Ziyan. Xia Ziyan knew Nie Yuan's feelings for Qiu Luoxue, so he wrote a letter to tell Nie Yuan about it.

Seeing the words in the letter, Nie Yuan's face was full of disbelief, crumpled the letter into a ball, and said to himself: "Impossible, this is impossible!"

"He's lying to me, isn't he? Speak. Nie Yuan grabbed the collar of the soldier next to him and said.

"General, this matter is absolutely true, the emperor has issued a condolence order to all parts of the country. Prime Minister Qiu...... Really dead. ”

"There's no way she's going to die, it's impossible, it's not going to ......," Nie Yuan kept saying as if he was comforting himself.

Yes, Qiu Luoxue's death hit him no less than Xia Zimo. At first, he thought that Qiu Luoxue no longer needed his protection, so he left her and went to the border. But now, Qiu Luoxue was assassinated, which shows that his original judgment was wrong. That kind of self-blame and chagrin filled Nie Yuan's heart.

This fatal blow, the pain of grief, swept through Nie Yuan's heart, and he suddenly felt that his body was weak, and he actually fell down. When he fell, Nie Yuan held on to the table next to him and fell down with the table.

However, he only lost the strength to support it for a while, and did not faint.

"General, General......" When Nie Yuan fell, a group of soldiers around him hurried over to help him.

There is another person who also received the news of Qiu Luoxue's death. That is Cai Ying, who she rescued twice. At the ceremony at the end of last year, Cai Ying was arrested for assassinating Xia Zimo, and later Qiu Luoxue rescued him, and agreed that all hatred would wait until a year later to make a decision. What Qiu Luoxue wants is for Cai Ying to cleanse his soul in the rivers and lakes and give up revenge.

After that, Cai Ying was really floating in the rivers and lakes, but he accidentally received the news of Qiu Luoxue's death. He stood on the notice board on the side of the city wall with a hat, and saw the mourning order written by Xia Zimo himself.

"Dead...... Is it? Cai Ying looked at the contents of the mourning order in disbelief.

"Heh, hahahaha...... Liar, you said that I will go to you for revenge in a year, and you are dead, how can I get revenge? You should wait for me, wait for me to find you. It is not difficult to hear his sadness in Cai Ying's words, although he is smiling in the front, but the more he goes to the back, the more he can hear his sadness.

Since the day of the Qiu Luoxue accident, it has begun to rain in Daqin, and it has not stopped. Sometimes it rains heavily, sometimes it drizzles. The convoy carried the coffin of Qiu Luoxue in the rain, and the procession traveled to Connecticut. The people of Kangzhoucheng, both adults and children, went outside the city to bid farewell to Qiu Luoxue, and people wore robes and hats, kneeling all the way from the city gate to the pipe.

As soon as Qiu Luoxue's coffin appeared, the people of the whole city were in pain, and with a gentle drizzle, it was really sad. In the hearts of the people of Connecticut, the most unforgettable thing is the autumn snow. She saved the people of the whole city, and if it weren't for the autumn snow, I don't know how many people here would have died in that famine.

The same scene was seen when the escort team marched to Annam County. If Qiu Luoxue is the life-saving benefactor of the people of Connecticut, then in the hearts of the people of Annan County, she is a close friend.

Was she lucky or unfortunate to receive such an honor after her death?