I never forgot the fire, I couldn't escape the dream, and when I closed my eyes, the dazzling light of the fire was in my dream, night after night, destroying everything.

I lay on my stomach in the snowdrift, my face burned by the heat of the fire, and I watched my home burned to ashes by the fire, and I watched my relatives and friends who had grown up with me burned to death......

Fluttershy, I saw Fluttershy running out of the huge palace of flames with fire all over her body, she screamed miserably, she ran for her life, the snowflakes turned into rain before they landed on her, she ran to the people standing in front of her, hoping for some redemption, but an arrow flew straight into her chest, and she fell to the ground and never moved again until she was burned to a dry bone......

"......No," I cried out bitterly, but I couldn't make a sound, and every word that came out of my throat turned into a hoarse murmur, and my voice was already hoarse with crying.

Fluttershy has been my closest playmate since I was a child, she is the daughter of Aunt Wu, Auntie's maid, and her Daddy was sent to Southern Xinjiang by my Daddy, and she only comes back once in a few years, and each time she comes back for a short time, so Fluttershy's greatest wish is to let Daddy play with her every day, just like my Daddy plays with me. My father and mother treated her like their own child, and since she was a child, she and I have slept in the same room, ate at the same table, and listened to my father explain the human body structure and those miraculous herbs...... She just died, burned alive, and her father didn't even know it......

"Daddy...... A-Niang...... Do not leave me...... A-Niang...... Don't you all want Qingyi...... "I lay there and kept muttering Daddy and Auntie, I hope God can give me a little favor, I hope Daddy and Auntie can hear my call, Daddy loves me so much, Daddy is so powerful, they must not bear to leave me here alone, Daddy must have a way to escape from the clutches of the fire with Daddy, they will suddenly appear in front of me, and then smile and hold it up and pat my head and say: "Qing'er, why are you timid and crying nose again......"

However, they didn't, and they didn't come out when the entire Snowy Sacred Palace had been burned to the ground, and the fire that had been burning all night was gradually getting smaller and weaker and finally extinguished.

It was my seventh birthday.

I can clearly see the people standing in the distance who are watching the Snowy Sacred Palace burn but remain indifferent, I can even see the hideous smiles on their faces, I can see, I remember, the person standing on the far left is my uncle! The fourth prince of the Chang'an royal family!

Five days ago, he came to the palace with a group of people I didn't know to celebrate my birthday.

Our family lives on the snow-capped mountainside, and we don't have much contact with the outside world, and every year my birthday is my father and mother and the big and small people in the family help me celebrate together, and I have never been to outsiders. Because my father has always separated his official affairs from his private affairs very closely, official affairs are never brought home, and the people in the family never need to participate in the disturbances of the outside world. Therefore, even as the lord of the entire northern frontier, he would politely refuse the requests of the lords of various countries to visit.

And this year, Ah Niang's family in Chang'an City suddenly visited, Ah Niang has never returned to the Central Plains for so many years in the snowy region of northern Xinjiang, and she also misses her hometown.

I still remember that day I was standing in the main hall of the holy palace with my mother and father, this person came over with a smile and lifted me high, and asked me very kindly: "Xiao Qingyi, do you know who I am?" The last time I saw you, you were just over three years old, and now you've grown into a big girl! With that, he carried me around twice, and I was amused by him and giggled.

The mother stood aside and said with a smile: "Qing'er, call uncle quickly." ”

"Uncle!" I shouted timidly.

"Alas!" The man seemed very happy to hear me call out to my uncle, and he lifted me up again.

I was also very happy, A-Niang told me that my uncle was my mother's brother or brother, but I had never seen my uncle, I didn't know if I had an uncle, and today I finally saw the true image of the legendary uncle, I waved my little hand around his neck, and shouted happily: "Uncle!" Uncle! ”

In those days, I kept sticking to him, asking him to play with me, but he was also generous and cool, and asked me to be his little guide, and visited the entire Snowy Holy Palace.

I took him to the Yunquan and told him that it was a hot spring, and that the seeds of the volcano were buried underneath, and that no matter how thick the ice was on the snow-capped mountains, the spring would not freeze, and that this spring was introduced into the Sacred Palace, and that it was the source of drinking water for all the people in our Sacred Palace; I took him to visit the wonders of the ice field and told him that when the moon first rises in the western sky, there will be a large cloud horizontally covering the snowy sacred palace, and the palace will be hidden in the clouds, and it will not be visible when standing under the snowy mountain.

In order to prove that what I told him was true, I also specially wore a mink coat wrapped into a zongzi in the middle of the night and took him to the top of the snowy mountain, when the clouds and mist covered it, the gorgeous and magnificent palace gradually disappeared in the clouds, revealing only the top layer of pointed carved beams and paintings, just like the legendary fairyland, my uncle pinched my little face and called it good-looking, and helped me wrap my clothes for fear that I would catch a cold......

I also told him the secret of the Sacred Palace, the Snowy Sacred Palace is backed by the snow-capped mountain, and others can only enter through the main entrance, but the side with the snow-capped mountain is actually the defensive pass of the entire Sacred Palace, if the enemy comes, when they have not yet reached the main gate, they can be wiped out from the back of the engine. However, there is a special route to the back mountain, this route is known to all the people in the Holy Palace, but outsiders don't know it, and my father said that these things can't be told to outsiders, but I think my uncle is not an outsider, so I told him.

I told him everything I knew as if I were offering a treasure, and how could I know what kind of scheming was in the heart of this man who was called my uncle, and how could I know that all that I had told him would in the future be important and beneficial information for the destruction of my whole family.

"Qing'er, do you know what secret passages there are in this holy palace? Or if there are bad guys, how are you going to deal with them? "My uncle asked me kindly.

"Bad guys? Daddy said that there will be no bad guys now, Daddy doesn't like to fight with others, Daddy said that he wants our family to live here in peace, we don't offend others, and others don't offend us. The snow-capped mountains we live in are the westernmost part of the entire northern frontier, surrounded by countries led by Daddy, and they are all Daddy's people, and they will keep us safe! I spoke to my uncle seriously, explaining to him why we didn't need to guard against bad guys.

The uncle muttered: "Yes, your father is known for being detached and indifferent, but he is the leader of the Northern Frontier after all!" Isn't there anyone looking for trouble with him? ”

I tilted my head and thought for a moment, then shook my head seriously.

I heard Aunt Wu and other people in the family say that my father was a wise and upright monarch, and under his leadership, all the countries in northern Xinjiang have become rich and strong, and wars have rarely occurred. If there is a rift and contradiction between the two countries, Daddy can always divide the entanglement of interests between them well, and both countries will be convinced. Therefore, for so many years, Northern Xinjiang has maintained its strong strength, and the secret lies not in anything else, but in the unity and friendship between the countries in Northern Xinjiang, the peace of the people and the raising of soldiers, and everyone twisted into a rope, so even the smallest tribe in Northern Xinjiang does not dare to provoke foreign enemies.

"Let's go! Uncle will take you to the top of the snowy mountain! My uncle stood up and took my little hand. My heart blossoms, my favorite is to go to the top of the snow mountain to play, standing on the top of the snow mountain can overlook the whole of the whole northern Xinjiang, the endless grassland is dotted with cattle and sheep, and the yurts in the distance are like chess pieces, scattered on the earth. Occasionally, I could see the smoke curling from a distance as they cooked barley wine and danced around the campfire, and I stood there and looked at them from afar, as if I could already hear their laughter and feel their happiness.

To the south of the grassland is the dark yellow Gobi Desert, and I know that across this next door, where it meets the sky, is my mother's hometown. I often fantasize about what the lights of the streets in the market are like, after all, I have only seen the snowy holy palace that is cool and not like the world.

Auntie is not in good health, afraid of the cold, she rarely comes to the top of this snowy mountain, Daddy only comes when picking snow lotus, and most of them don't take me. Therefore, I rarely come to the top of this snowy mountain, and I am very happy that he only accompanies me here every day when my uncle is here.

That day, I watched from afar a group of men chasing a group of galloping horses at the foot of the mountain, and I knew that it was a horse race of the Inujung, and every boy in the Inurong tribe was a good hand at the royal horse, and from the age of five each of them would have a young horse that would accompany them for life, and they would begin to learn to take care of their horses before they were even older, feed them, tame them, and accompany them, and the horses would be their companions for a long time.

The Dog Rong people love horses like their lives, and they also produce a horse that is more precious than the sweat and blood of the Huns, called the Black Soul. This black soul is jet black all over, and there is no feature in appearance, but the four hooves are three times larger than ordinary horses, which also determines the speed at which it runs, and it is also three times faster than this sweaty BMW! In the horse race that day, there were seven or eight black souls.