The Imperial Palace, there are no stars or moons in the sky tonight.

"Your Majesty."

"What?"

"Urgent military intelligence."

Xiao Chulan waved his hand to Bu Ku, didn't feel bitter, and let people in. Xiao Chulan got up and took the piece and opened... There was a stunned look in his eyes, and he made everyone retreat.

“… Choi Yeon-woo, killed. ”

There was no one else in the hall but him, and he said, "What's the matter, why is this happening?" Three days and moons, you say, why is this happening! ”

"I told you that the courtesy is at the end of the day, and it is all in vain." In the quiet hall, a cold woman's voice suddenly appeared, and a cloud of emerald green light appeared beside Xiao Chulan.

"General Cui was stabbed in the central vein on the battlefield, and he was powerless to return to the sky, and I took more than 20 knives with his body to barely save the defeat. Cui Yanyu will definitely lose this time. ”

There was a pair of emerald green deep eyes in the halo looking at Xiao Chulan, and said, "I helped you if you are a little similar to that person, but after all, those who rebel against the sky will die, and the Li Dynasty will be defeated." ”

"At least... Let Cui Yanyu come back, and calm her-"

The green light vanished, and the empty hall echoed with the man's voice.

"It's late..."

Xiao Chulan pushed the door out, and the eunuchs outside the hall couldn't help but be stunned, and lowered their heads.

"Your Majesty?"

"Don't be bitter, you come in."

Bu followed the young emperor into the palace, and when the palace door closed, Xiao Chulan turned his back to him and said, "You stay here, I will go to Anhou Mansion." ”

In the Anhou Mansion, Ping Ning suddenly had a palpitation today, and he always felt that something bad was about to happen, and it was difficult to sleep for a while. Not far from the head of her bed, someone knocked on the window, and a clear and long figure landed on the window.

"Ninth Brother...?"

Ping Ning put on his clothes and opened the window, Xiao Chulan was dressed in a dark robe, and he couldn't see the look on his face clearly when he lowered his head. At the moment when Pingning opened the window, he took her with one hand and held the person in his arms through the window.

"What's going on? You came alone? Ping Ning stroked his back and let the people come in first. She originally intended to let Xiao Chulan let go of her first, and then come in through the front door, who knew that he would go directly to the window.

"In the end... What happened? Ping Ning was once again taken into his arms.

Xiao Chulan's lips moved, and he said loudly: "Cui Yanyu, he-"

Ping Ning chuckled in his heart, his fingertips were cold, and his hands trembled slightly involuntarily. "Wait a minute. I know, don't say it, don't say it..."

She whispered, "It's not your fault. ”

Xiao Chulan shook his head in denial and buried his head in her neck. The Li Dynasty is weak, it can only be defended and not attacked, Cui Yanyu went to the battlefield to make it clear that there was no return, and he should not have let him go from the beginning.

"I'll tell Jingyu. Brother Jiu, you stay with me for a while. ”

"Okay."

The next day, Cui Jingyu listened to Pingning's words, and the whole person sat there motionless. Her father was gone, her brother was gone, her whole heart was torn apart, and what was even more tragic was that she found herself accustomed to this kind of pain, and gradually became a little numb.

"With my brother here, cry if you want to."

"Pingning, help me take care of Jingyu."

Probably when he left, he knew that he would not be able to come back.

"Jingyu, come."

The two sat on the edge of the bed, Ping Ning opened his arms to her, and Cui Jingyu hid in her arms. Her brother is gone, and she can't cry anymore. Uncle, her father, her brother... Is there really a need to continue this battle?

“… Why do we hold on? ”

Pingning: "The country is in the people, the country is ruined, and someone must guard until the last moment." ”

"Finally? Will the results be any different? Cui Jingyu said in a sullen voice.

Pinning didn't know. The result? The defeat of the country and the surrender of the country are not the same.

"Jingyu, I'll go back first."

"Hmm. Sister, I only have you left. ”

Ping Ning nodded, "I know, everything has me." ”

Ping Ning returned to the Hou Mansion and waved away the subordinates on the side, and the secret sentry sent out suddenly appeared. "How's it going?"

"County Lord, please see." As a result, the secret letters and letters in the hands of the dark whistle, Ping Ning's face became more and more gloomy and cold.

Well, very well. The officials of the DPRK and China have already found a way out, and they even mixed in with the spies of the enemy country at some point, and the six ministries colluded with each other... Her uncle was attacked by someone, and so was her cousin, saying that there was no problem within the Li Dynasty, but she didn't believe it.

Now that she has been hollowed out from the inside, what is she still clinging to? It's better to ruin them all.

"Get ready, I'm going to enter the palace."

The county lord hasn't entered the palace for many years, why suddenly...? was just stunned for a moment, and the next person immediately went to prepare the carriage and horses.

When the great eunuch reported to the lord of Pingning to ask for a meeting, Xiao Chulan thought that he had heard it wrong. Since Anhou passed away, Pingning didn't like to come to the palace, what's wrong today?

"Let her in."

After Ping Ning came in, he didn't care that others were still there, and rushed directly to Xiao Chulan's arms and hugged him. Xiao Chulan was flattered, and the rest of the people bowed their heads and retreated with great discernment.

"Father-in-law, the lord of Pingning..."

The big eunuch glanced at the man, pinched his throat and whispered: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, shut your mouth for me!" ”

The little eunuch lowered his head aggrieved and frightened, and turned his eyes to see that he was not bitter. Obviously about the same age, he has been serving His Majesty closely, because he is a mute and does not speak, and there is no expression on his face, and the whole person is cold.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Chulan was stunned in place, and the words of concern naturally came out.

"Brother Jiu, I want to get married."

Xiao Chulan was just about to touch her hand and stopped stiffly, and slowly clenched into a fist. "Good. Who do you want to marry, Brother Nine... Marriage to you. ”

"You."

What the? Xiao Chulan didn't react, and he couldn't figure out whether he was on the ground or in the clouds.

"Pingning, I didn't hear clearly, you say it again. Who do you want to marry? ”

"You can hear me." Ping Ning looked at him and blinked, "Can't you?" The ninth brother said that he would give me a marriage, but you didn't joke. ”

"You..." Xiao Chulan let go of his hand and covered half of his face sideways. The sentence that Ping Ning wanted to marry him was hovering in his mind, and it took him a lot of reason to stay awake, and he asked seemingly calmly: "Why did you suddenly think of this?" ”

"Jingyu asked me: why do you keep insisting." Ping Ning sighed, "I thought about it, because of the country's righteousness, because of my father's teachings since childhood. I've lived my whole life as the county lord should be, but I've put Pingning aside. Suddenly I want to be willful, and I'm coming to you. ”

After speaking, she looked at Xiao Chulan, "Brother Jiu, are you afraid that one day I will be left alone?" ”

Xiao Chulan lowered his eyes, this is indeed his heart disease all along, no matter how clear he is in his heart, he can't get around it.

"It's okay. became a parent, even if you are no longer there, you will always be the husband of Pingning, I want to put you in my heart justifiably. ”

Ping Ning understands Xiao Chulan just as Xiao Chulan understands her. What he longs for, what he worries about, what he is obsessed with, and what he can't let go, there is always only one she.

"After that, did Ping Ning poison the ministers at the wedding banquet?" Zhang Qining, who had been watching all this and had not made a sound for a long time, said.

Zhan Suiyu was slightly stunned. poisoned the ministers at the wedding banquet, how could Xiao Chulan stand it?

Long Xinze smiled, "Oh? You even know? Did Shen Zhizhou tell you? ”

Zhang Qining looked at the people who were hugging each other at this time, and the picture after that turned quickly.

After Cui Jingyu knew that the two of them were going to get married, she made a fuss in front of Xiao Chulan, saying that he had snatched away his last relative. Xiao Chulan said: "I really want to marry and want to spend my life with her, and you have no jokes." ”

When he said this, Ping Ning sat beside him and looked up at him, what was she thinking at that time?

Because of the current national crisis, she proposed to keep everything simple. "As long as I can put on a wedding dress and show you, nothing else matters."

However, Xiao Chulan watched her walk towards him in a fiery red wedding dress, witnessing her dragging herself into the abyss. The first to fall from poisoning was the prime minister, followed by the people of the six departments, and then the officials who usually don't take the lead.

Sikong Yuan felt that there was something wrong, so the wine and food on the case were not moved. Tao Xiuru was cautious formed over the years, and rarely drank outside, so he escaped. The rest of the officials who found out that something was wrong immediately cut their throats and spit out the wine, and someone went to ask the imperial doctor from the Imperial Medical Department.

After counting the number of people, the ministers of the DPRK and China actually lost half.

"It's only half—" Ping Ning sighed regretfully, and spilled the secret letter from the secret sentry down the stairs from his sleeve. Sikong Yuan and the others picked it up to see what it was, and after reading it, they couldn't help but shudder down their spines, and they made meticulous work, turned their backs, and bought them... One by one, it is confronted with what happened in the Li Dynasty, but behind the seemingly reasonable lies a dirty and despicable truth.

Ping Ning turned to look at Xiao Chulan and looked up calmly. “… I'm sorry. Brother Jiu, you come. ”

Xiao Chulan seems to be a bottomless connivance of her requirements, even if she uses the matter of marriage to make a game. He walked calmly towards her, and there was even a doting smile on the corner of his mouth. He walked over and, as he had done countless times, asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Half of the ministers fell to the ground and died of poisoning, and the other half of the ministers had the imperial doctor to see him; There are those who scolded the county lord of Pingning for his rebellion, and asked Xiao Chulan to execute her on the spot; Some eyes are confused when they look at the secret letter of the letter, and they don't know how they can make such a fuss today; There are those who are silent from beginning to end, standing on the sidelines and watching this farce.

The atmosphere in the hall was extremely strange for a while, except for the two people in the scarlet wedding robe in the center of the main hall, who were excluded and were not affected in the slightest. They looked at each other and smiled, like a fairy couple. Ping Ning stretched out his hand and took Xiao Chulan's hand and walked out, and when he walked to the door, he pulled out the sword of the guard on the side, dragged it out on the ground, and walked out.

On the Sumeru platform outside, Ping Ning held a sword in one hand and held the white marble fence with the other. She looked at the imposing palace and sighed deeply, then smiled.

Faced with the fact that she couldn't see the end and couldn't see the palace outside the palace gate, she said: "I really hate this city, until one day, I bumped into a little boy under the begonia tree, I didn't expect that there would be such beautiful people in the imperial city." Brother Jiu, you were really difficult to deal with when you were a child. ”

Xiao Chulan also thought of something and smiled. "I never thought that there would be such clean, presumptuous people in the Imperial City. If I could turn back the years, I would have grabbed you the moment I hit you, not run away. ”

"The people in the court are no longer the old people, and after today, the Li Dynasty will no longer tolerate me. I don't want to die at someone else's hands. Xiao Chulan took the sword in her hand, and Ping Ning said, "Brother Jiu, help me." ”

"I'll never turn you down, and this time too."

Ping Ning turned around, and the smile on his face was more real and relaxed than ever. She really didn't want to have anything to do with the royal family anymore because of her identity, she was really fed up and wanted to cut it all off. Xiao Chulan raised her sword, she almost greeted it like a sacrifice, the blade of the sword slashed through her chest, and the wind blew each other's sleeves and hooked together.

Xiao Chulan caught her fallen body, a tear fell on Ping Ning's face, she asked him to lower a little, a little lower, her soft lips kissed his cheek, and whispered against him: "I am today... I really want to marry you, Brother Nine. I didn't... Lie to you. ”

"I know."

"The number of courtesies and vitality has been exhausted, don't guard this country, give it up..."

"Okay."

"When I was alive, I thought about living in seclusion with you."

"Then I'll go find a beautiful place and spend the rest of my life in peace."

"It's good to meet you." Ping Ning snuggled up to his chest and gradually closed his eyes with a smile. "Jingyu..."

"Don't worry, I'll help her arrange it and let her choose for herself."

“… Good. ”

Brother Jiu, Ping Ning will go first.

Xiao Chulan pressed his chin against the top of her head, hugged her tightly and refused to let go.

In the end, Pingning's body was snatched back by Cui Jingyu who broke into the palace. When she saw it, she didn't know what method Xiao Chulan used, but Ping Ning's body was still preserved as before. Cui Jingyu scolded her: "Liars, you are all liars!" ”

After that, the enemy army captured the imperial city all the way, Xiao Chulan didn't have to do anything with dissenting courtiers, abdicated and took off his dragon robe, dressed in white, and left with a piece of purple beam jade and jade seal that was not bitter around him, a jewelry wooden box, and a piece of purple beam jade jade seal that could warm the soul.

However, the courtiers who invited merit naturally wouldn't say this, and they also sent people to keep an eye on Xiao Chulan all the way, but because there seemed to be some force around him to protect, they could only follow all the way to the beautiful mountains and rivers that Xiao Chulan found. After making sure that he would not leave, Litaizu remembered that he was once an emperor, so he let him stay inside, and sent someone to guard him outside.

Six years have passed, Xiao Chulan felt something in his heart one day, and he couldn't come to his side: "After so many years, I have worked hard for you." ”

This man was extremely intelligent, and when he heard him say this, he immediately knelt down in front of his bed and shook his head.

Xiao Chulan hugged the jewelry wooden box next to the pillow, and gently rubbed the patterns on it with his eyes. "Actually, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, so it's not painful at all, and you shouldn't be sad. When I die, bury the wooden box and the jade seal with me. Don't be bitter, live happily, you can go or stay. ”

He didn't look at him bitterly and nodded seriously.

Xiao Chulan opened the wooden box, a silver-purple tasseled hairpin was lying quietly in it, and there were some dry fragments next to him that he didn't know what they were, he clearly remembered that they were two white begonias, which bloomed in the treetops and fell one after another and stuck to his clothes, sticking for a lifetime.

He closed the wooden box with satisfaction, remembering that Ping Ning was running on the palace road with no end in sight, turned back to wait for him, and urged him: "Brother Jiu, you hurry up!" ”

Then he followed.

"Here we are."

*

I knelt down in front of the bed for a long time before going out to prepare for the next thing.

As he left, a green halo appeared beside his bed. I still remember that day, the county lord of Pingning died, he held her corpse and didn't ask her if she had a way to return her soul, just hugged her like that, and asked: "Can you let her keep it like this for a while longer, I want to see it again." ”

Sanriyue said: "It was not ordinary people who she poisoned, but courtiers. Whether a courtier is loyal or treacherous, she has her own destiny, and if she accumulates grievances after death, she may not have good results. ”

Xiao Chulan was stunned, "What will happen then?" ”

Three days and moons: "The karma is deep, and it does not enter reincarnation." ”

Not in... Transmigration.

No, absolutely not! Xiao Chulan hugged her, "Three days and moons, I will pay tribute... The identity of the sixteenth emperor orders you to let her reincarnate smoothly and protect her from evil spirits and disasters. ”

"..."Three Days: "That's it?" Don't you pray for marriage in the next life? ”

Xiao Chulan smiled: "Even if you don't ask God to ask the sky, she and I will definitely meet again." ”

San Riyue looked at Xiao Chulan, who was already lifeless on the bed, and slowly turned around, and a trace of residual thoughts gathered into a human form and stood behind her.

"Even if you go to reincarnation, can't you let go?"

The remnant walked to the bed and touched the wooden box with cherishment. "What was promised to me—"

"Don't worry, I'll send her to reincarnation."

"Thank you."

*

"So far, it's the edge of the two." Long Xinze shook the dust, "Presumably, Miss Zhang is also very clear about karma. ”

"So what?"

"Huh?"

Zhang Qining turned his eyes and looked at him coldly: "This Sumeru mustard seed doesn't seem to have the effect of pulling out karma except for letting people see the things of the previous life. What is the purpose of bringing us here? ”