Chapter 5 The Beauty of the Dead Country
Until the night, the cold moon hung in the air, the jackdaw screamed a few times, and the sound of sound sleep continued to rise and fall in the palace. Let's go to the water! ”
The light of the fire lit faintly in the royal city, and thick black smoke was emitted.
Suddenly, the footsteps in the city became chaotic, and the maidservants and the inner eunuchs first fetched water to extinguish the fire, but saw that there was water in many places in the palace, and everyone was shuttling in the palace, busy carrying water.
When the fire spread and could not be stopped, everyone panicked, and everyone threw themselves into extinguishing the fire.
An Tingyuan, Qing Ning gradually woke up, she listened to the noise and footsteps outside, wiped her sleepy eyes, her eyes were foggy, and Zhiqiu on the side made her not need to panic, and said that she was just walking in the water.
But it didn't take long for the sound of swords clashing.
Linhua hurriedly ran in and shouted, "Maggie is the opposite!" It's the other way around! ”
Zhiqiu immediately took the clothes and asked Qingning to put them on, but Linhua suddenly cried, and she said tremblingly, "It's lost, it's lost!" Run! Run! ”
Qingning raised her head and looked at Linhua with tears in her eyes, Linhua pulled the clothes in her hand, and cried and shouted, "It's too late!" It's too late! ”
Qing Ning knelt down in despair, and footsteps could be heard outside.
"It's tempting to see that princess at today's feast! How about our little brother try it first, and then give her to Akamo?! The soldier outside said obscenely.
In the dormitory, the candlelight flickered, and only the giggling and slapping of the soldiers outside could be heard, as well as the lewd and laughter, and the sound of footsteps came from far and near.
"What about people? Ran away? A soldier shouted as he looked at the empty An Tingyuan.
"No one escaped, search carefully!" Another soldier said.
Qingning, Zhiqiu, and Linhua hid in the cabinet, and the three girls were so frightened that their bodies were trembling all the time, and the surroundings were pitch black, only hearing their own heartbeats and the footsteps of people outside.
"Da ......" footsteps seemed to stop in front of you.
"Creak", the wardrobe door was opened, Qing Ning looked at everything in front of him in despair, the two people next to him were so frightened that they couldn't cry, they hugged Qing Ning tightly.
"Here." The terrible laughter came from my ears.
The soldiers laughed obscenely and pulled them out, one of the still young soldiers pulled Linhua over, Qingning looked at Linhua in horror and shouted, "Don't! Let her go! Let her go! ”
"Hahahaha!!" Laughter reached her ears.
"The princess let me play first." The soldier said to the two next to him, and he dragged Linhua into the corner.
Qing Ning hugged Zhiqiu and cried, her body trembling constantly.
It was very noisy outside, with the cries of women, the screams of men, all kinds of sounds mixed together, and a choking smell of smoke.
Throughout the night, the royal city was in flames, and the flames continued to spread, staining the night red.
Until Qingning was dragged away by an old soldier, the young soldier next to him hugged Zhiqiu and laughed at the old soldier, "Are you okay?" Hahaha! ”
When dawn came, the palace of its former glory had been burned to ashes, and when the sky was dark, the sun shone on the city, and the corpses were scattered all around, all of whom had died under the merciless sword.
The people gathered at the foot of the royal city, they were all remnants of the Yu Dynasty, and they were cheering for the fall of the Yong Dynasty.
The sun rose, the palace gate slowly opened, and the prisoner cars were full of criminal slaves and were being transported out of the palace, but the people were suddenly silent, they seemed to see that year, when the Yu Dynasty fell, the prisoner car was loaded with the magnates of the Yu Dynasty, those who had been glorious for a while, were as depressed as ants, just like their country. So that year the people knelt there and cried and wailed.
At this time, the atmosphere began to be heavy, the women in the prisoner car were all disheveled, red and purple, some of them were unconscious, some of them were scattered, with the jolting of the prisoner car, they suddenly opened their eyes, and then closed again, lifeless.
Qingning lay on the body of the maidservant girl who didn't know it, Wang Cheng was getting farther and farther away from her, she looked at the head of her father hanging on the city tower, and suddenly she grabbed the wooden pillar of the prisoner car, her voice was hoarse and she couldn't shout anymore, and the tears on her face blurred her vision.
In the spring of the second year of Yongyuan.
Soon after Jiang Nuo captured Jin'an, he stayed in the Jingxi Palace of that year, and he ordered people to rebuild the palace, among which he renamed a palace "An Tingyuan", and ordered people to plant flowers and trees and renovate them, so that his favorite daughter could live in it.
That year, the much-loved "Princess Le Yao" attracted the attention of 10,000 people.
"Abu, will you stay by Qingning's side all the time?" Qing Ning asked Jiang Nuo with a wink.
Jiang Nuo touched her head and said gently, "Abu will always be with you." ”
It wasn't until the second year that Jiang Nuo's temperament became suspicious and tyrannical, his power made him inflated, he regarded human life as an ant, and he began to indulge in beauty and pleasure.
"Father! You are not allowed to pamper her anymore! Qing Ning walked into his dormitory and pointed to the Central Plains beauty and said.
It was the first woman Jiang Nuo loved, and that woman looked very much like Qing Ning's biological mother, especially those affectionate eyes.
"Get out! Don't let the princess step into the king's palace again! Jiang Nuo yelled at the people below.
The fox charm of the Central Plains beauty, but only a few days, Jiang Nuo no longer went to the morning court.
The Di people have always lived in the grassland, the totem is the eagle, Qingning grew up with her father since she was a child, she remembers the feeling of running on the grassland when she was a child, looking up at the eagle soaring in the sky in the air, and a group of people galloping on the grassland.
The prison cart had been gone for a long time, Qing Ning's thoughts had been confused, she was very tired, her body was full of bruises, she was in pain when she moved, her hair was messy, her face was smeared with black ash, she was wearing a handmaid's clothes, and she was sitting in a prison cart with seven or eight handmaidens. But she knew that some people were out of breath.
"It's too late! It's too late! The sound of Linhua's crying seemed to be right in her ears, she snatched the dress in Qingning's hand, took off her clothes, and changed into Qingning's dress.
As it got late, the yellow afterglow fell on her face, the tears on her face had dried up, and the day had passed, and the prisoner car had left the royal city, and she didn't know where it was going, but she vaguely heard a soldier say, "Take them to the barracks at the border gate, and treat them to the brothers." ”
The prisoner cart stopped, the insects gradually sang in the grass, the cold moon hung high, and the tired birds returned to their nests.
"Dead? Throw it down! ”
The corpses in the car began to be thrown down, and one of the soldiers touched Qing Ning's hand, which was Wen, and he threw Qing Ning back into the car, and all of a sudden, there were only three or two people left in a prisoner car.
"Why did you die so much?" One soldier muttered.
At dawn, the prisoner cart continued on its way, and last night it rained, and the road was potholed, and the prisoner cart was wobbly moving. It's quiet, and it seems to have fallen into the middle of nowhere.
Qing Ning was in a coma on and off for a few days, she gradually regained consciousness and began to open her eyes, seeing that it seemed that she was already some way away from the capital, the scenery began to become desolate, and her eyes were dilated, like stagnant water.
A soldier escorted a prisoner cart, the prisoner cart was separated by a distance, Qing Ning saw the two maidservants in the prisoner cart with her, very strange, I don't know which palace it was, their clothes were torn, and their clothes were not covered.
"No! Stop and rest! A soldier in front shouted.
The prisoner cart stopped, and they would stop every hour or two to take a break.
Qingning trembled all over, every time she was conscious, those unbearable pictures would spring up in her mind, as well as the screams of Linhua and Zhiqiu, she closed her eyes and shouted, her voice had long been unable to shout, and it was just babbling and muttering to others.