By the time we arrived at the mausoleum, it was already dark.

The palace people had already lit countless white paper lanterns and surrounded them layer upon layer.

Chu Ning, Empress Yao and others stood at the forefront.

The coffin of the Emperor was loaded on the cart, and the cart slowly drove into the bottomless darkness like a ghost.

Empress Yao gritted her teeth and watched the coffin disappear completely.

She felt torn in half, half of which remained in this shell, half of which was buried in the loess with the Emperor for eternity.

The concubine behind her lowered her head and sobbed, but she was the only one who kept her chin high and never shed a tear in the corner of her eyes.

Chu Ning finally ordered the entrance of the tomb to be sealed.

The palace people picked up their tools and jumped in front of the pit, and shovels of loess were lifted high and slapped heavily at the entrance of the tomb.

Empress Yao looked at this scene and only felt that her heart was gradually numb.

Qiu Mo whispered beside her: "Niangniang, the night is cold, let's go to the palace to rest when it's over." ”

Empress Yao was slightly stunned, turned her face to look at Qiu Mo, and muttered, "The end?" ”

She was shocked, and hurriedly looked back, only to see that the tomb entrance was almost sealed.

"Your Majesty!" Empress Yao let out a low breath, and her body fell limply.

Qiu Mo hurriedly supported her, she leaned weakly on Qiu Mo, pointed to the tomb and said with difficulty: "Let them open!" ”

"!" Qiu Mo hurriedly hugged her arm and glanced at the palace maid behind.

Several palace maids came forward to support Empress Yao, and Qiu Mo lied that the queen was too sad and exhausted, so she went down to rest first.

Chu Ning was silent, watching them help Empress Yao, who was vain in her footsteps, away.

But as soon as Empress Yao took a few steps, Chu Ning heard her mournful cry.

"Let go of Hongu! The main palace is going to be buried with the first emperor! ”

Everyone looked at her, only to see that she completely disregarded decency and shook off the palace maid beside her.

Several palace maids did not dare to touch her, and she stumbled towards the tomb.

"! Queen Mother! ”

No one dared to stop her, she repelled the palace people and ran to the tomb, pointed to the tomb that was about to be sealed, and shouted: "Open the palace!" ”

Chu Ning didn't speak, and the palace people present didn't dare to move.

She suddenly went crazy and used her hands to dig the soil, and her well-maintained ten fingers dug into the loess, and soon blood came out.

Qiu Mo hurriedly knelt beside him and persuaded: "Niangniang's Day mourns, the first emperor has gone." ”

She snorted coldly, "Get out of the way." ”

Empress Yao buried her head in digging the grave soil in front of the grave with her hands, and the bun on her head had already become messy.

The make-up that had been carefully traced in the morning was also pasted, and sweat continued to seep from her hairline, wetting her forehead and cheeks.

After being a country, she looks like an ordinary woman who is grief-stricken at the moment.

Yao Xingyuan pushed through the crowd and rushed to her side, "Niangniang! Don't dig anymore, the first emperor has already settled in the ground! ”

Empress Yao still turned a deaf ear, her slender fingers were covered with blood, and the soil was dyed yellow, yellow, red, and red.

There were more and more onlookers, and thousands of white paper lanterns with the word "lay" written on them gathered together, and they were clearly extinguished.

Chu Ning lowered his voice and asked Xiao Youzi on the side, "The emperor has deep feelings?" ”

Xiao Youzi replied in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Respect each other like guests." ”

Guests, guests.

Chu Ning understood a little in his heart, and personally stepped forward and knelt in front of her, calling "Queen Mother." ”

Empress Yao raised her head suddenly and looked at Chu Ning steadily.

She comforted softly: "If my father is knowledgeable, I will definitely not want to see my mother so sad. ”

Empress Yao's eyes flickered slightly, like a fish thrown ashore, thirsty for water, eager for her to continue.

"The son is the child of the father and the queen mother, the child is still there, please the queen mother for the sake of the child, don't embarrass yourself again."

Empress Yao has nothing to do in her life, and for more than 20 years, what she wants most is her heir Chenghuan.

Now, Chu Ning's words hit the nail on the head, she just wanted to indulge in this moment of vanity.

Chu Ning changed to half-kneeling, helping Queen Yao to slowly help her up.

"Erchen knows very well that the queen mother has a deep relationship with her father, the emperor and the flounder," she said deliberately to everyone, "but the deceased is gone, and the queen mother cherishes it." ”

What a plaice is deeply affectionate.

Empress Yao remembered that someone had said before that the emperor and queen were in deep love.

This is a big lie, no matter when, she willingly believes it.

Chu Ning ordered Qiu Mo to help Empress Yao down to rest.

She turned to say in public: "The emperor and queen are deeply in love, which is commendable, and it should be a good story for the harem generations." ”

After speaking, she motioned to the palace people to continue sealing the tomb.

Not far away, Liu Tingchuan looked at Chu Ning lightly, and the emotion in his eyes was fickle.

Han Tang stood in the crowd, so crowded that he couldn't see what was happening in front of him, but he just saw Liu Tingchuan's eyes.

The moon is full tonight, and countless people have their own thoughts.

After Empress Yao was sent back to the Imperial Mausoleum Palace, her eyes were empty as if she had lost her soul.

Qiu Mo tried to persuade her, but she didn't pay attention.

Yao Xingyuan also came to visit her sister, and when she saw her like this, she couldn't help but say anxiously: "My good sister! What burial are you going to be buried with? ”

He didn't choose to speak, and said angrily: "Don't you understand, even if he is buried with him, he only wants to bury the woman Concubine Shu next to him!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Qiu Mo hurriedly glanced at him.

Yao Xingyuan realized that he had lost his words, and was about to turn around and slip away, but he heard Empress Yao repeat: "Concubine Shu? ”

Qiu Mo saw that she finally spoke, so she had to bow her head and say, "Yes, the favorite concubine of the first emperor who died early." ”

Empress Yao's pale lips suddenly hooked up in a strange arc.

She sneered, looked up and asked, "Is that the concubine?" ”

More than ten years ago, when the first emperor wanted to canonize that woman as a concubine, he personally chose the word "Shu" for her as a title.

At that time, Empress Yao was happy for Emperor Boxian, so she couldn't bear her sadness and asked with a smile, is it taken from the virtuous and virtuous Shu?

Speaking of that woman, the first emperor's smile came through his eyes.

He shook his head and smiled, "My Fair Lady, good gentleman."

Thinking of this, her dim eyes suddenly lit up.

The eyes were a little creepy, Yao Xingyuan trembled, and asked cautiously, "Niangniang?" ”

When Empress Yao looked at him, she returned to her usual commanding demeanor.

Her smile was gentle, but it was like ice, and she said softly: "It's a pity, if she comes out of the belly of the palace......"

Then she will not treat Chu Ning as a substitute for Concubine Shu in the future.

The night was long, and Empress Yao had long been used to it.

But tonight she finally began to yearn for tomorrow.

By the time the funeral was over, it was halfway through the night.

Chu Ning ordered everyone to go to the palace to rest first, and then return to the capital early tomorrow morning.

But she didn't feel sleepy, and under the pretext that she wanted to worship her ancestors, she sent away the palace people who followed her and went to the cemetery alone.

Chu Ning carried the lantern and walked in the cemetery, carefully examining each tombstone.

The newer the tombstone, the clearer the inscription, the more imposing the tomb will be.

More than a dozen imperial tombs are lined up one after another, and the middle one is the most humble.

Her gaze rested on the tombstone of Emperor Zhaowen, the second emperor of Later Zhao.

"Brother."

Chu Ning couldn't help but mutter, and raised his hand to gently stroke the moss and dust on the tombstone.

Before dying in her previous life, the last thing she saw was her brother's face.

Unexpectedly, after being reborn, she met her brother in this time and space in another form.

After two hundred years of wind and frost, the tomb of Emperor Zhaowen is almost decaying.

Chu Ning's heart was sour, and he took his eyes off his tomb and slowly looked at the tomb dozens of steps away.

That's, her grave.

Before coming to the Emperor's Tomb this time, she thought that she must go to see the tomb of her previous life.

But now that it has really come, her grave is close at hand, and Chu Ning has retreated a little.

Yes, is it more timid to be close to home?

But there was only a dry skeleton there, a lonely grave, so what could she be afraid of?

Chu Ning took a deep breath and walked forward slowly with a lantern.

One step, two steps, three steps......

Her breathing grew heavier, and for the first time she didn't know if she wanted the road to be longer or shorter.

Finally, by the flickering candlelight, she could barely make out the inscription engraved on the tombstone.

"The tomb of the Holy Ancestor Zhaowu Emperor Chu Mingsi."

Chu Mingsi, this name has left her.

Now as Chu Ning, she has returned to the place where she was buried in her previous life.

There was silence in the cemetery, and Chu Ning let out a long sigh of relief.

When a person dies, there is nothing.

Chu Ning took a deep look at his tombstone, and soon, he found that there was a slightly lower tomb next to the tomb.

Whose grave is that?

She couldn't think for a while that there was anyone else in her previous life who could be buried in the imperial mausoleum after death, next to her.

Chu Ning's heart seemed to be crushed by a stone, and his heart couldn't stop sinking.

She wanted to shine a lantern to see what was carved on the tombstone in front of the grave.

But her hand slipped, and the lantern came out of her hand, falling to the ground and rolling around.

The candle in the lantern overturned, lighting the paper cover of the lantern.

The white paper with the word "lay" written on it was quickly burned to ashes.

The soil of the cemetery was moist, and the flames were extinguished in an instant.

Chu Ning hesitated a little, slowly stepped forward, and looked down at the words on the tombstone.

The handwriting was a little blurry, and she struggled to make out the words "clothed mound" by the faint moonlight.

But then she didn't see the words on it very clearly.

Chu Ning thought of something in her heart, but she suddenly became uneasy, but she trembled and touched the words on it.

"This is the tomb of my Han ancestor." Han Tang's voice sounded behind her.

Chu Ning didn't look back, repeated those two words in a low voice, and said, "Han? ”

Han Tang approached her with a lantern, shone the lamp on the tombstone, and said, "Exactly, the ancestor is the number one general under Emperor Zhaowu. ”

"Han Che."

Before he could continue, Chu Ning had already blurted out and completed it for him.

Han Tang nodded, put the lantern aside, and knelt down in front of Han Che's mound and kowtowed.

"The ancestors are above, and the descendants of Han Tang will disturb the ancestors tonight......"

Han Tang's voice fell on Chu Ning's ears, becoming more and more blurred until it fell completely silent.

The world was annihilated, and there were only those two words left in her world.

Han Che, Han Che.

He is her Dingguo general, her first god of war, and the sweetheart she was waiting for before she died.

Chu Ning sat on the ground and stared blankly at his tombstone.

Han Tang's face quickly expanded in front of her eyes, and he frowned, his eyes full of worry.

His lips were closed as if to say something to her.

But Chu Ning couldn't hear anything, just opened his eyes, looking at his face and the clothed mound behind him.

Han Tang had to half-kneel down and carefully encircle Chu Ning between his arms.

I don't know how long it took, Chu Ning heard himself ask calmly, "Only General Han Che's clothes are buried here?" ”

"Yes," replied Han Tang, "buried in the mound is the suit of armor that the ancestors most often wore during their lifetimes. ”

He paused, then said, "There is also the broken spear left over from the last battle of the ancestors. ”

Chu Ning's voice became calmer, and he asked again, "Where are General Han Che's bones?" ”

"The ancestors died on the battlefield, and were dismembered by the enemy, and Emperor Zhaowen ordered people to rummage through the battlefield, only to find the broken spear of the ancestors."

"Really?"

Chu Ning felt that he quickly sank to the bottom of the lake, and the feeling of suffocation came to an end.

The heart is like a knife.

In her previous life, when the Jokhang Kingdom was destroyed, Han Che desperately protected her and took her out of the palace.

It's him again, spear and armor, who was born and died for her, and fought in all directions.

The past is like smoke, I thought it had long since disappeared, but after a little retrospect, I remember it vividly.

Chu Ning's body softened and leaned back.

Han Tang hurriedly supported her and called her one after another, "Your Highness, Your Highness." ”

In a trance, Chu Ning thought of Han Chelai again.

"Your Highness, I'm here."

On the day of the collapse of the Jokhang Palace, it was Han Che who wiped the blood and tears from her face, took her hand and walked out.

"Your Highness, I will fight this battle."

When she fought the first battle, she was so nervous that she couldn't hold the reins of her horse, and Han Che picked up her gun and smiled at her proudly and casually.

Thinking of the past, the corners of Chu Ning's lips rose slightly.

But she didn't realize it herself, she was already in tears.

Han Tang's heart hurt terribly for a while.

His arm strained slightly, and Chu Ning was tightened tighter.

Chu Ning didn't notice it, his eyes stared at Han Che's tomb, and all he remembered was his proud and smiling face.

Han Che, does he only laugh?

Even when he was under siege, she galloped through the starry night to relieve him, and all she saw was him laughing softly in the enemy camp.

The spear rises and falls, invincible.

When she and he joined forces to repel the enemy army, he rode her out of the enemy camp on horseback, still smiling.

He carried her off the horse, but he leaned on the horse's back, laughed freely, and stretched out his hand to her, saying, "Mingsi, come here."

Chu Ning's heart seemed to be a piece of unconscious dead flesh, cut by a thousand knives and twisted into mud.

She broke free from Han Tang's arms, turned around and threw herself in front of Han Che's grave, and hugged his tombstone into her arms.

Han Tang was at a loss, so he had to half-kneel down beside her, raise his hand and gently wipe her tears with his fingertips.

People who practice martial arts all year round have rough calluses on their fingertips.

Touched by his fingers, Chu Ning's eyes burst into tears.

She turned around in a trance, only to see that the young man under the moon was still there, and couldn't help asking, "Why didn't you go back?" ”

Han Tang was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, I have always been there." ”

In his memory, Han Che smiled casually and said, this is the last time I will lead the troops on the expedition.

He said, when I bring back the head of the Lantai monarch, I will be disarmed and returned to the field and enter your harem, okay?

He said, "Your Majesty, wait for me."

In front of him was Han Tang's handsome face, the same sword eyebrows, and the same heroic spirit.

Chu Ning looked back at him, there were fragments of starlight in his eyes, as well as her mournful face.

She saw her face gradually enlarge in Han Tang's eyes.

His dark pupils shrank suddenly.

He felt Chu Ning's soft lips fall between his eyebrows.

It's obviously a gentle temperature, burning on the skin, but it's amazingly hot.

But for a moment, the distance between her and him immediately widened.

Han Tang only felt that everything was fluttering, his soul seemed to be hooked away, and he looked down on himself in a vain and floating manner.

He saw himself looking at Chu Ning, and his eyes were full of Chu Ning.

It's a stone's throw away.

For a moment, he didn't know where he was, he didn't know who he was.

There was only one thought in his heart, and she cried.

So close, as long as he stretched out his hand, he could take her into his arms.

The impulse tormented him, mocked him, and his heart seemed to rise and sink in boiling water.

The next moment, Chu Ning looked at him with teary eyes and said in a low voice, "You are not him." ”

Han Tang suddenly came to his senses.

When you wake up from a dream, you are close to the end of the world.

Chu Ning stood up and said lightly: "It's been a long time since I came out, and it's time for the palace to go back." ”

She was as calm as a glance at stagnant water, like Liu Tingchuan.

Han Tang's expression was gloomy, and he picked up the lantern on the ground, "Your Highness, please come here." ”

The next day, as soon as Chu Ning returned to the palace, he ordered King Xin to personally go out of the city to meet the envoys of the Jingshuo Khanate.

Although she did not officially ascend the throne, she had the support of King Xin and Empress Yao, and the whole court regarded her as the new monarch.

The Jingshuo Khanate and Hou Zhao had been at odds for many years, and this time the envoy did not express his intentions, and the court officials were all terrified.

"Here, His Royal Highness King Xin and the Mobei Mission are here."

As soon as the palace people who sent the message at the gate of the palace came, the civil and military officials in the main hall couldn't help but feel nervous.

Wang Qitang looked at the door worriedly and said in a low voice, "I don't know what the Jingshuo Khanate is here for. ”

He Chunyi, a scholar, also had a worried face, and whispered: "No matter what happens, our courtiers must trust His Highness to handle it properly. ”

Shi Yihuai next to him listened, sneered, and said disapprerovingly: "Do you think that the Northern Barbarian and the harem woman are generally easy to deal with?" ”

Although he was talking about a woman, Wang Qitang heard that he was insinuating King Xin, and glanced at him with a calm face.

Shi Yihuai sneered: "Lord Wang, save it, leave your bitter and hateful face to the one above." ”

Chu Ning was in a high position at the moment, and when he saw the civil and military officials talking to each other, he whispered, but he didn't take her seriously.

She coughed lightly and winked at the eunuch next to her.

The eunuch preached loudly: "Out." ”

Everyone was stunned, Chu Ning stood up, came with all the money, and led the crowd out of the palace to greet the envoys.

The ministers followed behind Chu Ning, and seeing that she didn't need to be reminded by the courtesy, the courtesy of receiving the ministers was unexpectedly thoughtful.

He Chunyi had never seen Chu Ning before, and when he returned to see her at the beginning of his serious illness, he only regarded her as a puppet-like tool.

But Chu Ning walked in front of the hundred officials, his figure was tall, his steps were calm, and the royal family was majestic in his own way.

Behind her, it was as if there were thousands of mountains and rivers opening up.

He Chunyi sighed in his heart, this princess's posture was just right.

Outside, the envoys of the Jingshuo Khanate came to meet them, and they saw Chu Ning personally leading hundreds of civil and military officials out of the palace to greet them.

Her momentum was submerged and soaked, and the white jade steps under her feet seemed to be bathed in her brilliance.

The envoy led by the leader saw Chu Ning, laughed and stepped forward to give a big salute to Mobei.

Chu Ning smiled slightly and said, "Excuse me, envoy please." ”

Word by word, neither humble nor arrogant.

After the envoy followed Chu Ning into the palace, he first did his best to mourn the emperor, and persuaded Chu Ning to mourn.

After he finished speaking, before he could speak, Chu Ning took the initiative to say: "Hou Zhao wants to exchange markets with your country, I don't know what your country wants?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the court immediately exploded.

Wang Qitang plopped down and knelt on the ground, and said hoarsely and dissuaded: "Your Highness! Never! ”

Although Shi Yihuai did not speak, his face became even more gloomy.

Over the years, the Jingshuo Khanate has wandered and plundered the border of the post-Showa Lantai Kingdom, disturbing the livelihood of several cities on the border.

The materials they looted were not a small amount in the eyes of both countries.

Now, Chu Ning actually took the initiative to ask for mutual trading with such a country.

Once the market is exchanged, the border defense line is wide open, which undoubtedly opens the door of one's own house to attract foreign thieves in.

At this time, the envoys of the Jingshuo Khanate had not yet expressed their position, and several ministers in the court had already stood up one after another.

"Your Highness, this move is too reckless and inconsiderate."

"How is this different from luring a wolf into the house?"

"It's strange that His Highness treats state affairs as child's play?"

"His Royal Highness King Xin, Prime Minister, this matter is related to the tranquility of the northern border, and we must not tolerate it."

……

There were many opinions, but no one was on Chu Ning's side.

Chu Ning was also calm, letting them argue for a while, and indifferently watching everyone's reactions.

The envoy of the Jingshuo Khanate said curiously: "How does Your Highness know that the King of Khan sent us just to exchange something with you." ”

Chu Ning smiled: "Horses for food, but? ”

The envoy's expression confirmed her suspicion.

While appeasing the ministers, she consulted with the envoys of the Jingshuo Khanate, thinking that the matter of the horse farm had been settled this time.

Next, it's up to the Mo family.

The largest jade shop in the capital was opened by the Mo family.

The shopkeeper is also from the Mo family, shrewd, a pair of eyes can not only recognize jade, but also people.

As soon as the teenage rich lady entered the door, he immediately cheered up and drove away the man to receive her in person.

"Miss, please come here."

The shopkeeper's face was full of smiles, "There are some new Lantai jades in the shop, all of which are rare and good goods, and they are the most suitable for the eldest lady." ”

"Yue'er is obviously still young, why do you say that I am 'eldest lady'?"

Chu Yue looked at the shopkeeper, and then looked back at the maid behind her.

The shopkeeper was asked by her, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, and saw that she was really cute, and patiently coaxed: "Then, little miss? ”

While leading Chu Yue to the store, he ordered his men to fetch the expensive jade bracelet.

"Miss might as well try it, this pair of bracelets has a warm texture, and the jade quality is one in a hundred, and it looks very white when you wear it."

Chu Yue glanced at it casually, and said with a sweet smile: "It's good-looking, but it's not as good-looking as Yue'er's bracelet." ”

As she spoke, her wrist flicked, and her sleeves hung down, revealing a gold-encrusted bracelet.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, "Jin Yu is wrong, this?" ”

Behind the screen, a half-grown teenager walked out, snorted and said, "Come on, your things can't get into her eyes." ”

"Yes, yes, the young master has taught me a lesson."

Mo Yunhuan, the young master of the Mo family, walked around to Chu Yue and said with a smile: "Let's go, the things are hidden in the backyard." ”

"Hmm!" Chu Yue jumped down from the chair and ran to him in a hurry, "Brother Yunhuan! ”

"Okay, little ancestor, your powerful sister heard it, why don't you peel my skin and sew a mattress for you?"

Chu Ning threw the jade seal to the Mo family last time, turning the Mo family upside down.

Cen Yin personally stared at the craftsman, day and night, two days and one night, before the jade seal was mended.

Mo Yunhuan was trained by Cen Yin a lot, and blamed Chu Yue's sister for all this.

Chu Yue stuck out her tongue, smiled sweetly, and turned around and ran into the yard.

"That's right," Mo Yunhuan turned his head and pointed to the pair of priceless jade bracelets, "wrap them up and give them to her." ”