Zongzheng's eyes widened in horror, and they stared helplessly at the smoke and dust that had been violently kicked up by a violent whirlwind, and large clouds of gray smoke swirled in the air, blinding their eyes. The Xuanyi guard froze at the hollowed-out wooden box in his hand, while a wooden board in the center of the bottom of the box was still in place.

The ashes scattered, stumbling along with the icy snow on the wide road. And all the temperature on their bodies instantly receded, and the whole person was like an ice sculpture, stiff and cold.

This winter night robbed them of the sunshine and warmth that was left of their lives.

Broken bones and ashes, that woman as pure and beautiful as a white lotus, in the end, still failed to escape such an ending.

The heavy dark clouds gathered again, blocking the pale white moonlight from this world of sorrow, and the sky was pitch black.

The air was silent, as if everyone's breathing had stopped.

Manxiao felt that all the strength in her body seemed to be exhausted, and she slowly knelt down and bowed respectfully to the place where the ashes were raised three feet away. With the palm of his hand on the ground and his forehead against the back of his hand, the cold air on the ground hits his skin and makes the blood in his body drop to freezing point. Leng Yan and all the Xuanyi guards also knelt down, only Zongzheng Wuwu remained motionless, as if he was demented.

The bitter wind whistled in his ears, with a whimpering sound, like a woman's low sobs through her chest, miserable and mournful. His face was stiff, his pupils were dark and bloody, and he had no expression, so no one could tell whether he was sad or painful in his heart. In fact, there was nothing, his mind was empty, and in the passage of time, those empty places were gradually filled with anger and hatred, and there were only two words in his heart: Fu Kite!

That vicious woman, he wants to make her pay.

With his fists clenched, he turned around and leaped on the horse's back, whipped his whip and "drove" sharply, the BMW neighed, raised his hooves and rose into the sky, and galloped away alone. Leng Yan hurriedly followed, and all the Xuanyi guards also retreated like a tide. Within a few dozen zhang of the Huitong Pass, only a pile of ruined corpses and a thin black horse accompanied the white woman.

In the middle of the night, the goose feathers and snow did not stop, and she still bowed to the ground, her white hair was scattered on the ground, and her hands were drowned in ice and snow together.

Her limbs were numb, she slowly raised her head, stood up on the ground, the snowflakes on her eyebrows and eyelashes fell, and a bitter cold taste swept through the corners of her lips.

At this time, there is only one thing she can do.

Three feet away, she picked up the planks on the ground, walked to the open space on the side of the road in front of her, next to the rocks, squatted down on her knees, picked up the snow, and used her sword to dig the ground that was as hard as a stone after being frozen by ice and snow. She didn't want her mother's ashes to be trampled on the road by tens of millions of people, this was the only thing she had to do at the moment.

Back to the pupil pass, the camp will be a big tent.

Li Shi knelt in front of the bed with a respectful expression, and after Zongzheng's wound was properly treated, he was unable to lie on the bed, and he couldn't even lift his eyelids. After listening to Li Shiyu's report on the mystery of the wooden box, he asked expressionlessly, "Did the queen mother ask you to do this?!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes."

Zong Zheng Wucai frowned slightly, and a soldier came in to report: "Your Majesty, the people and horses brought by the Southern Emperor have all been withdrawn, and only the woman is still there." ”

Suddenly he opened his eyes, he suddenly sat up from the bed, the wound was numb, he seemed to be unconscious, only asked urgently, "Is she alone?" What are you doing? ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, it's a person. She knelt in the snow for half an hour, and then she didn't know what she was digging with her sword. ”

Zong Zheng lifted the quilt without a plan, and Li Shi was shocked: "Your Majesty, you have an injury on your body, you should recuperate."

"Prepare me. Immediately. He pushed Li Shi away, and his tone was firm and unquestionable.

Li Shi had no choice but to order someone to find a soft sedan chair in the city, spread a soft quilt, and try to make him lie down as comfortably as possible.

Out of the Huitong Pass, but the distance of dozens of zhang, it will be there soon. Zongzheng had no plan to ask someone to bring the soft sedan closer. Lifting the sedan curtain, he looked at the woman's thin and thin back, trembling in the wind and snow because of the movements of her hands, he helped the sedan chair to stand up with difficulty, and wanted to go to her.

"Don't come here." She spoke indifferently, and her voice was low and hoarse like hers.

Zongzheng was speechless, his eyes were dim, and he waved his hand to make everyone retreat. The coat on his body was wrapped tightly, but the cold wind was still pouring in, and people couldn't help but shiver from the cold. He stood on his feet for a long time, looking at her in a daze, watching her desperately use her sword to loosen the ice and soil, and then throw the soil out with his hand. The action is very fast, like a race against someone.

His heart was sour, and his pity was unspeakable. "Rongle." He screamed, but she didn't respond, and continued to dig and dig the soil very seriously, and the punishment did not stop, as if nothing else had anything to do with her.

The snow fell all over her, and the earth that had been thrown out made the wind sweep back and hit her head and face, and she stubbornly repeated her movements, again and again......

He finally couldn't help it, ignoring his injuries, and rushed towards her, not knowing where the strength came from. Grabbing her hand, his heartache whispered, "Enough, don't dig!" “

Her hands are so cold! It's like the temperature of the sea under the freezing three-foot water. He snatched the moment from her hand with all his might, but the sword was held tightly, as if frozen with her hand. He raised his hand again to drain the dirt that had stuck to her pale face, but she dodged it.

His hands froze in mid-air, hung down weakly, and asked softly, "What do you want to bury?" With such a strong wind, those ashes have long been blown away! ”

What to bury? Her eyes were blank and empty, like the endless darkness of the night. The cold wind is fierce, the ashes are gone, what is she going to bury?

"Bury my happiness,... May I? Her soft voice was ethereal. It seems to be asking others, and it seems to be herself.

His breathing froze for a moment, and his eyes were lonely with deep pity for the woman, "Isn't your happiness in him?" He's alive and loves you, so why should you? She turned her head slowly, her eyes were full of desolate sorrow, and there was a hint of cold sarcasm at the corner of her mouth, and she asked, "What do you think,... So far, I am still happy with him? Having come this far, you... Satisfied? ”

From the moment the box of ashes was raised, she clearly heard the sound of happiness being broken. Originally, all of this could have been done without having to live, but in order to save her, outside the Xuande Hall of tens of thousands of people, he gave up the country, gave up everything, and left his mother's body to his enemies, resulting in the ending of his mother's broken bones and ashes! Carefree He was the mother who loved him so much, how could he accept such a cruel truth? Maybe he won't regret saving her, but he must be burdened with guilt for his mother and can't forgive himself.

Happiness for her, always a moment of fireworks, after the splendor, leaving a long-lasting sorrow wound and no hope for a life, how to go on?

Zongzheng's throat seemed to be stuck, and he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth. This trip to Yuzhou, he may not have come! He has always been rational and cautious, and knows what to do and what not to do, but this time, all his reason is no match for the thought of her, and he is desperate to come to see her, is it wrong? He thought that it would be good to die at her hands like that. However, no matter how carefully he strategizes, his fate always seems to be in the hands of others at the most critical time!

"Rong Le—" He wanted to say sorry, but she interrupted.

"Do you know that the last person I want to see right now..., is you." She knelt in front of the pit she had dug and sat on her own feet, her legs numb and unconscious. Her face was expressionless, and there was a hint of coldness in her voice, "At this time, I don't want to kill people yet, you can go." After she finished speaking, she continued to dig on her own, ignoring the sad man beside her.

After a while, Zong Zheng Wuqiao took a deep breath, turned his head and ordered, "Come on, find tools to help." ”

"Not necessarily. I don't want to fake my hands. She refused indifferently and left no stone unturned.

He frowned, "Don't be stubborn, dig like you, for three days and three nights, the snow will melt, and you won't be able to bury anything." ”

"It's my business, you don't have to worry about it." She threw out a sentence coldly.

Reluctantly got up, his body shook for a while, and immediately a guard stepped forward to help, he returned to the soft sedan chair, and ordered: "Inform Li Shi, close the Huitong Pass, send a large army to the front to guard, within three days, no one is allowed to pass on this road, and violators will be killed." ”

"Yes!"

For three days and three nights, without stopping, a small shallow pit finally became a man's depth, the size of two coffins. The woman took off the fox fur on her body, knelt on the ground in a single dress, swept the snow with the fox fur, buried the ice and snow that had not melted away in the soil pit, covered it with soil, and set up a wooden stake in front of the pit, on which the wooden stake was flattened, and nothing was written.

Zong Zheng Wuji sat in the sedan chair and looked at her silently, and never said a word. The weather healed cold, his wounds deteriorated, no matter how Li Shi pleaded, he turned a deaf ear, quietly staring at the woman who was full of sadness and despair, and his already desperate heart was even more dead.

He kept asking himself: If he didn't come to Yuzhou City, would he stop the queen mother from crushing Yun Guifei's corpse into ashes? If he promised Zongzheng to be worry-free and forced Li Shi to send the ashes box first, wouldn't she have to dig and bury the snow in such despair? It seems that no matter what he does, in the end it will only bring her harm! Rong Le...... She knew that the last person he wanted to hurt was her.

persisted for three nights and two days, under the double torture of body and mind, he finally failed to support it and fainted in the sedan chair.

Another dark night came, and after she had done everything, her limbs and even her body seemed to be not her own, and she didn't listen to the call at all, and even wanted to raise her eyelashes. The snort was faint but burning, the nails of both fingers were broken, the flesh of the fingertips was blurred, and the dirt penetrated into the flesh and coagulated together with the blood. She knelt down in front of the stake and prayed in her heart: "Mother, if you have a spirit in heaven, please bless him." ”

He propped himself up with his sword, but he could not stand. She tried hard several times, but before she could get up, she had already fallen. She lay on the ground, looking up at the sky sadly, the sky was full of clouds, endless, she slowly closed her eyes, her chapped lips trembling slightly in the wind.

When she woke up, it was the middle of the night, and she was lying on the big bed in Shangqiyuan's bedroom, her legs still numb.

In a daze, I heard someone say: "Niangniang's cold air has penetrated into the bones, and these legs are afraid of ......"

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid it is...... It is not easy to recover. ”

"What? It's so serious! Doctor Xiao, you hurry up and find a way to save it, if Niangniang's leg is really good, you and I are a family, I'm afraid none of them can escape! ”

"Yes, yes, Lord Yu, let's find a way for the small ones. But...... Niangniang's golden jade phoenix body, the little one wants to give needles to your mother......

When is this all the time, still care about this! You go. ”

"Yes......"

A dense tingling sensation came from her knees, and fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead. The hand moved slightly, and when she opened her eyes, the doctor had finished applying the needle, and her legs finally felt something. When he saw her wake up, the doctor was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for forgiveness. She was weak and slightly open. His throat burned as painfully, and he said in a dumb voice, "Get up." Lord Yu, where is the emperor now? ”

Outside the curtain tent, Lord Yu hurriedly replied: "Back to Niangniang, the emperor left Yuzhou City overnight for some reason three days ago, and I heard that he returned to Jiangdu. ”

She frowned slightly, lowered her eyelashes, tried to calm her tone, and asked, "Have you left anything behind?" ”

Lord Yu said: "Back to Niangniang, the emperor explained, when Niangniang wants to go back to Jiangdu, let Weichen prepare a more comfortable carriage to escort Niangniang back." ”

Want to go back to Jiangdu? He is not here, what is she doing in Yuzhou City? She slowly closed her eyes, her thick eyelashes trembled a few times, and she clenched the corners of the quilt, and her ten fingers were bandaged by a thick cloth, thick and bulky. After a while, she asked again, "...... the messengers of the fourteen kingdoms?"

"Please rest assured, Weichen entertained the envoys of the Fourteen Kingdoms at the emperor's behest, and sent people to escort them away yesterday, it should be ...... There will be no mistakes. ”

"Should?" He opened his eyes and looked sharp, "It can't be a should, it must be an affirmation." How many escorts did you send? ”

Lord Yu was slightly stunned, and hurriedly replied: "The envoys of each country have arranged a hundred guards in the open, and there are ...... in the dark Without waiting for him to speak, Manyao frowned, "You are expanding the enemy's target!" ”

Although Lord Yu has limited talents, he is also a rather conceited person, seeing her react like this at this moment, she is only unhappy because the emperor left early, and she can't help but be a little disapproving, and said: "The elites sent by Weichen are all selected from the army, Niangniang don't worry." ”

Man Yao sat up with his body propped up, his face was solemn and deep, and he said in a stern tone: "Don't worry? I'm afraid that if something happens, you can't bear it with one head! You send men disguised as envoys of various countries, and follow the paths, trying to catch up with them in one day, and disturb the enemy's sight. Do it now. ”

Lord Yu felt that her ability to do things was doubted, and she felt a little unhappy, secretly thinking that she was a harem concubine and was nosy! But because of his identity, even if he didn't want to, he had to obey orders. "Wechen will do it."

Lord Yu retreated, called the housekeeper in the house, and ordered: "Prepare the carriage immediately, and the palace will return to Jiangdu." ”

Dr. Xiao exclaimed, "Niangniang, your body ...... She said expressionlessly: "Don't get in the way, you go and help Bengong prescribe a few medicines." ”

The war is about to be advanced, and many things have not been done yet, so she has to go back quickly. The housekeeper of the Yu Governor's Mansion was very efficient, and the carriage and everything needed on the road were all prepared with a stick of incense.

Two maids helped her into the carriage, and she lay down in the thick brocade quilt with her eyes closed.

The road was bumpy, she was confused, and she didn't know it day and night.

Phoenix Nirvana, the soul of women