die young

As the night wore on, everything was silent under the darkness, and the endless mountains were devoid of the roars and howls of wild beasts, except for the faint chirping of insects. In the jagged alleys of ten thousand homes, there was no noise of the day, and there were faint one or two humming songs to lull children to sleep, and even the golden palace began to fall into a quiet and lonely darkness.

In the center of the crimson palace, there is a very different palace that is still brightly lit, everyone in the palace knows that this newly crowned queen is not a weak woman in the boudoir, she has worn armor, held a long whip, and turned the tide in battle after battle to defend the capital of this hundred years.

The lights in the palace are only bright in the middle palace all night, which is a problem left by her when she was marching, and the emperor personally allowed it.

In the middle palace where it was still like the day, a weakened figure stood under the shadow of the fir tree, the palace maid brought the silver basin and placed it in the moonlight, turned around and took out paper money, candles, tin treasure, dark paper, and put a pot of wine and two wine bottles, after doing all this, the palace maid bowed respectfully to the shadow of the tree and quietly retreated.

The person in the shadow of the tree in the faint moonlight walked out slowly, dressed in plain clothes, with a cold and cold iron whip hanging on her waist.

Her expression seems to be sad or not, although it is a double decade, but the withering in her eyes makes her look very old, she walked to the moonlight and dragged the corner of her clothes to sit on the ground, she put the copper coin on the candle, and when the blue and red fire ignited on the copper coin, it will be slowly put into the silver basin, she grabbed a handful of copper coins and slowly put it into the faint flame, looking at the slowly rising fire, she sighed, and the silence between her eyebrows instantly eased a little.

She poured two bottles of wine, took a glass in her left hand and a glass in her right hand, slammed one of the bottles into the loess after slamming it with herself, and held a bottle of wine in front of the empty darkness, with a faint trace of tenderness in her eyes.

After three glasses of wine, her face is ruddy but not drunk, she drinks very well, she just likes her face, and every time she drinks, her face is always hot and spicy.

Facing the calm and quiet darkness, she looked down at the flickering fire in the silver basin, suddenly shook her head and smiled, "It's been five years unconsciously, I have always scolded you for being stupid, I don't want you to be the smartest one, you are completely escaped, but the pain and loneliness in the future are left to me, I don't blame you for being ruthless, I am self-inflicted, young and ignorant have to force you to death, if you are still alive, whether it is a conspiracy between the two of us, a trick!" It's been a wonderful day, but now...... What is this called? ”

"You are in a hurry, I haven't had time to tell you many things, I was thinking to say it to make you feel painful and jealous, but who knows that these things have now become a poison that eats my bones and eats my heart, tormenting me every day, tormenting me. There are many people in the palace, but I want to say it to you alone. ”

The flickering firelight shivered in the cold cold light, she took a wad of paper money and slowly put it into the silver basin, the old memories seemed to have just happened yesterday, the man was still chic and unrestrained, carrying a longbow and whipping quickly, standing among thousands of figures and smiling.

She is the eldest daughter of the Meng family, although she lost her mother since she was a child, her father never treated her badly, but took pity on her and lost her mother and indulged her even more, no matter whether she drank and messed around or got into trouble and fought, her father never blamed her, she was an unruly savage, and she was used to it like this.

She never disdained the flattery and overtures of Gongsun Gongzi in Kyoto, because she knew that they had to be genuinely good to her, but she was jealous and greedy for the three armies of the Meng family.

In order to avoid those eyes with other plans, she often disguises herself as a woman to go out, she doesn't like the singing and dancing halls that noblewomen and ladies often go to, but sneaks to the alley wine shop to drink alone, or holds the wine jug to listen to the old gentleman tell some stories about the ancient god of war, although they are all lonely and alone, but fortunately she has been used to drinking alone since she was a child, drunk and lying on the cold stone.

However, the lone butterfly does not last long, and the lone crane hopes to stay.

She saw him in thousands of figures, and he lived in her heart ever since, and this dwelling was a lifetime.

Spring hunting, the emperor's dragon drove to Tiandu Mountain, accompanied by not only civil and military officials, but also some princes who came from the fiefdom or lived in the mansion for a long time, she wore a silver lion helmet armor, dressed up with a black iron whip tied to her waist, galloped fast, and the yellow sand smoke and dust were broken under the horse's hooves. The beasts fled in a hurry, she flung the black iron whip and followed closely, seeing the opportunity to kill an adult muntjac with a whip, and she watched more and more prey under her red flag in the sound of gongs and drums, and laughed proudly on the horse.

At this moment, men admired her heroic posture, and women envied her recklessness.

Even His Majesty smiled and said that after the Meng family deserved to be a general, her daughter was so brave and good at fighting, and she would definitely become General Meng's right-hand man on the battlefield in the future.

There was a sudden cheer from the crowd, and she looked for it, and a white shadow flashed through the herd like lightning, it was the color head of this hunt, a pure white polar snow fox.

The snow fox is cunning by nature, human, and when it encounters danger, it is different from ordinary beasts that blindly escape, it is good at hiding, good at using tricks, and it is extremely fast, and it is difficult for ordinary treasure foals to catch up with it.

The most popular and shrewd hunter is not the run-away herbivorous mountain beast, nor the arrogant and ignorant king of the mountain, but the most favorite and most proud is the most cunning and cunning fox in the mountains.

She is the most favorite hunter in the Meng family's army, so naturally she will never let go of such an opportunity.

She flung the Xuantie whip and followed closely behind the snow fox, watching it flee in all directions in the rush of the beasts, the faster it escaped, the more Meng Le's blood boiled, and a pair of eyes were tightly hooked on the snow fox, eager to use the Xuantie whip to break its neck in the next moment.

The snow fox is a cunning fellow, it got into the thorn bushes in the mountains and forests and grasses left and right, completely disappeared, the mountains and forests are not easy to ride horses, she abandoned the horse and jumped into the mountains and forests, with the stumbling movement in the grass, she found the whereabouts of the snow fox again, but the snow fox was clever and cunning and soon knew that someone was following her, I don't know what to do, let her listen carefully with patience, but she couldn't find the slightest sound.

She was a little impatient and whipped the whip the bushes and trees beside her, hoping to use force to scare the color head out, who knew that it had been half an hour, but there was no movement at all, just as she sighed faintly, and when she was about to give up, she only listened to the "Qiang!" behind her. With a thud, a flickering arrow passed by her, striking at the white rock at her feet.

She was about to throw a whip at the man who shot the arrow, but suddenly she found blood gushing from the rock under the arrow, and she crouched down to see that it was not a stone but the cunning snow fox.

It turned out that the snow fox shrunk itself into a ball and hid in the void under the huge rock, it was white with the rock, and it was hiding in the gap of the rock, and it couldn't be found at all if you didn't look carefully.

A green shirt fell beside her, picked up the motionless snow fox and smiled at her, "What kind of armor does the little girl's family wear, the more you want to pretend to be a man, the more you don't look like it, this armor reflects your pretty, it's very good-looking!" ”

After speaking, he flew away like lightning, and at the same time, a long whip fell from the place where he was standing just now, and the city gate caught fire and affected the pond fish, and the rock on the side was swept by the whip tail, "Bang! With a loud bang, the huge rock turned into a piece of dust, and she secretly said: This prodigal son is really more cunning than the snow fox!

The smug laughter came from the air again, "Although there is some courage and no strategy, but you dance this whip dance well, I took the color head, and it will be indefinite!" ”

Meng Le withdrew his long whip and flew to stop him, watching him lie fearlessly and uninhibitedly on the tree, the anger in her heart instantly poured half of it, and she made a bet with the unobstructed disciple to compare who had more prey before the hunt was over, and the man in green shirt responded with a chic smile.

The day is getting westerly, the gongs and drums of the hunting ground gradually slow down, and the sound of the horn at the end resounded throughout the Tiandu Mountain, Meng Le looked triumphantly at the prey like a hill under his red flag, there are muntjac, sambar, galloping wolf, wild boar, roe deer, mountain python, and an adult leopard, the whole hunting ground has the most prey under her banner, and it is an extremely difficult beast to hunt, even the emperor is amazed that she is a rare leader in the hunting ground.

In full view of everyone, the guards behind him carried a half-man-high sack and walked out, and the eunuchs who tapped their prey opened the sack together and poured out nests of hares.

This is the hunting ground that His Majesty came to in person, everyone wants to take the opportunity to hunt some fierce and difficult beasts to show their martial arts, those hare and are running to their arrows, they will not hunt them, otherwise Your Majesty will despise himself, and the face of the clan will be gloomy.

When I turn around and brag to the tribesmen, saying that I fought a fierce white tiger and a mountain wolf on the hunting ground where His Majesty came in person, the tribesmen are envious, and the patriarch has to offer you as a role model for teenagers. If I hit a nest of rabbits on the hunting ground where His Majesty came in person, if the patriarch doesn't slap you, you will be considered thick-skinned.

The entire hunting ground was stunned by tens of thousands of people, and after an instant, there was a deafening laughter from the hunting ground, and he leaned aside and ignored them, just raised his eyebrows at her, and secretly reminded her not to forget the agreement with him.

She clutched the whip tightly, her teeth clucking, and while all eyes were on the hare, she saluted him and signaled that she had thrown in the towel.

After all, she said it herself, whoever hunts more prey wins, and just that big push of live and jumping hares, she doesn't need to know that she hunts more.

Someone in the crowd laughed and said, "The fourth brother stays in the house all the year round, and he is not physically strong when he comes to the hunting ground, and he must have done his best to hunt these rabbits. ”

Another wave of laughter rippled in the crowd, and then she realized that he was the fourth prince who was soaked in the medicine jar, and she thought that he was a guy who was only on the stage, but she didn't want to be so chic and uninhibited, and she couldn't see that he was a weak and long-term sick person, and the eclectic free and easy looked like a free and easy man in the rivers and lakes.

The cold wind howled, rolling up the burning paper money in the silver basin with a "whirring", the burning spark lasted in the dark but was swallowed up for a moment, and a few pieces of residual debris rose and fell with the wind, just like a helpless life, you don't want to go, it pushes you to go.

Meng Le sat on the faintly bubbling land and drank alone to the moon, she smiled bitterly and said, "He was dressed in plain clothes all day long for you, hiding his original free and easy, and replacing it with the illusion of being as warm as jade." I'm so stupid, since he could have changed his makeup and temperament to get your attention, why couldn't he have pretended to lure me in the first place! ”

She was fascinated by his uninhibited uninhibitedness, and when the two met by chance in the suburbs, they always had to roll up their sleeves and make a comparison, sometimes comparing literary fights, sometimes comparing chess skills, and sometimes riding horses and whips to chase the remnants of the sun.

At that time, when she first tasted the poisonous fruit of love, she only knew that the flesh was delicious, and she would have thought of the day when she died of poisonous hair.

When her grandfather had an old illness, his personal guards had secretly sent tonics, and her father had warned her not to get too close to the prince, otherwise she would be in unnecessary trouble. She understood what her father meant, as long as the Meng family was in control of the three armies for a day, those princes would stare at the Meng Mansion with fierce eyes, and those people in the court were all dish-eaters, as long as they grabbed the slightest bit of wind and grass, it would definitely be Wang Ba who would bite people and not let go.

Since ancient times, what military generals are most afraid of is the suspicion and anger of the Son of Heaven.

But she didn't care, she generously accepted into the mansion, she was young and ignorant and a tendon person, she knew that she liked him, and she also knew that as a prince, he would either ascend the throne and embrace the world, or leave Beijing and enter a fiefdom, which would happen sooner or later. Therefore, she secretly decided in her heart to use the three armies of the Meng family behind her to help him ascend to the throne.

It was also such a cold night, she turned into his mansion in black, and put a solemn and majestic tiger talisman "Bang!" patted in front of him, patted his chest and said, "I don't care what your identity is, how much bloody rain you will face in the future." I like you, so I want to help you. Me, Meng Le! As the daughter of the Meng family, I am here to assure you on behalf of the Meng family, with all the strength of the three armies of my Meng family, to help you ascend the throne as the emperor, if you succeed, you are the emperor, I am the queen, I will take care of the battlefield, you will take care of the court, we will depend on each other in life and death, and we will share the shame and suffering. ”

He glanced down at the tiger talisman that was scorching and flickering in the candlelight, and said with a smile, "What if you lose?" ”

She looked at him directly, and said clearly word by word, "If you are demoted, let's go to the fiefdom together." If convicted, we will go to prison together. If the execution is carried out, the two of us will get into the prison car together and go to the execution ground. ”

He grinned, laughed breathlessly, pushed the tiger talisman back in front of her, in her surprised eyes, he swore and said, "The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated, the lives of the three armies of the Meng family will be shared by me from today onwards, you don't have to go to the fiefdom, and you don't have to worry about going to prison, I will do my best to let you live in the middle palace where women all over the world are envious and jealous, and sit on the unique nine-winged phoenix chair, I want your mother to honor the world." ”

The two hit it off and gave each other the most sincere promise on a cold and windy night.