Yu Zhiyan knew that he had broken the sky, and the Queen Mother would not change her mind.

The chaos in the palace is unstructured, because the number of people who can be taken away is limited, and the abandoned palace maids and chamberlains are all weeping and rippling, as if the sky is falling.

Just when everyone was scrambling for things, Yu Zhiyan just released the cage, obviously those who were going to run didn't care about them at all.

The queen mother left the capital with the palace guards and the palace when she was a child, as well as the minister's family.

Because most of the carriages were loaded with gold, silver and jewelry, Yu Zhiyan and Gu Yinglian were crowded into a carriage.

Gu Yinglian was still holding the little emperor in her arms, but the little emperor who didn't know what was going on was full of excitement, and he only thought that he was parading out of the palace as before.

It wasn't until the sky was bright that the hungry people barely stopped to rest, Yu Zhiyan was okay with these carriages, and the women who were walking were already exhausted, and the jade feet in the embroidered shoes had already worn out blood.

In this barren land of mountains and mountains, the people realized that they had only gold, silver, and jewels, but they had not taken any of the grain.

Gu Yinglian sat on a smooth stone, looking at the porridge and steamed buns brought by Wang Ken, her face was pale with anger, "Okay, you dog slave, you actually gave me such a thing, even the dog doesn't eat these things." ”

After speaking, she slammed the golden bowl and the yellow steamed bun to the ground, "The mourning family ordered you to bring so much gold, silver and jewelry, are you connected?"

Can't you get some decent meals? ”

Hearing this, the king was full of embarrassment, "Queen Mother, this barren mountain and wild mountain is really impossible to buy, and the only bag of rice is still found from the hunter's house in the mountain." ”

Yu Zhiyan looked at the bright golden bowl, which was not as precious as a bowl of meat, and couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.

She walked over slowly, only picked up the steamed bun sticky with soil, slowly wiped the mud on it with her fingers, and slowly handed it to the Queen Mother.

"Niangniang, there is still a lot of way to go in the future, it's okay to be hungry for one meal or two, but if it's been a long time, how can there be a reason to be hungry all the time."

Wang Ken also cried and said, "There is really no way for the slaves, so you will just have a few meals." Rest assured, these days will soon pass. ”

Seeing Wang Ken and Yu Zhiyan's pleading, he put it in his mouth and ate it. She is also a pampered daughter in the Chengguo Mansion, where has she ever eaten such a tasteless thing, but she still frowned and swallowed it.

She ate a few bites before she remembered Yu Zhiyan, and only frowned and asked Wang Sincerely: "What about the general's wife, she is pregnant again, is she still hungry?" ”

Wang Ken patted his forehead at this time, with a look of remorse on his face, "Oh, look at the slave's memory, he has prepared a bowl of hot porridge, and the slave will bring it over." ”

Gu Yinglian looked at the steamed bun, and she really didn't have any taste, so she only stretched out her hand and handed it to Yu Zhiyan.

"Your body was already weak, and now that you're pregnant, it's better to eat more." Gu Yinglian said lightly.

Yu Zhenyan's stomach was like a hard stone stuffed, and where could he eat it, he still took it all and gnawed it slowly.

And at this moment, a weather-covered guard hurried over, and even his face seemed to be covered with wind and dust.

"Queen Mother, this is a letter from General Gu." The guard's armor was still covered with blood, as if he had returned from a battle on the battlefield.

The king took the letter and handed it over with trembling hands.

Gu Yinglian took a deep breath, and then the letter was opened, and after only two lines, her withered face suddenly filled with despair.

Yu Zhiyan hurriedly asked, "Queen Mother, what happened?" ”

The Queen Mother didn't answer her words, but just handed the letter in her hand to Yu Zhiyan, and she only glanced at it, and said in shock: "Dong Lang is actually injured." ”

Gu Yinglian's tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, and she only hated: "The sky is going to kill me." ”

Yu Zhiyan endured the grief in her heart, and then looked down, but saw that she was scribbled, and she could recognize it for a long time before she could vaguely recognize it.

Gu Jue has always cared most about decency, and his handwriting is also neat, but now he writes so urgently, half because he is seriously injured, and half because the war is tight.

After reading the letter, Yu Zhiyan was covered in a cold sweat, and it all told that he was losing and retreating, and the forces everywhere were rebelling, and almost everyone was supporting the phoenix.

When she finished looking, Gu Yinglian had already stood up from the stone, and her face had regained her composure, "After reading it for a while, I will destroy this letter, don't let people see it." ”

Yu Zhiyan raised his head sharply and looked directly at the guard who came to deliver the message, "How is Dong Lang's injury?" ”

The guard's face was solemn, "General Gu was ambushed and hit by three arrows, although it was not fatal, but he could only recuperate in the city." ”

After breakfast, he fled again, and it was not until the evening that he rested in a small village in the middle of nowhere.

Most of the people in the village fled, and Yu Zhiyan and the Queen Mother were also placed in the home of a relatively wealthy person.

At night, it was still porridge and steamed buns, but people who were tired all day still cared about the unpalatable, and even Gu Yinglian ate the food cleanly.

After Yu Zhiyan drank the gruel, he only felt sore, but he saw that it was quiet outside, presumably to say that those who were tired and hungry had fallen asleep.

She couldn't sleep, and her body ached from the hard bed.

However, at this quiet moment, Yu Zhiyan vaguely heard a small sound outside. When she carefully identified it, there was the sound of drawing a bow and arrows.

Yu Zhiyan's ears were originally more sensitive than others, and after listening to it for a while, he sensitively sensed that something was wrong.

She hurriedly sat up from the bed, slowly entered the inner room, patted Gu Yinglian's body gently, and said in a low voice: "Queen Mother, get up quickly, it doesn't seem right." ”

Gu Yinglian sat up suddenly, looking at Yu Zhiyan with a nervous face, "What's wrong?" ”

Yu Zhiyan didn't have time to explain, he only stretched out his hand to pull her under the bed, and even the sleeping little emperor was tightly hugged by Yu Zhiyan in his arms.

The Queen Mother also faintly noticed something, and before she could speak, she saw countless arrows breaking through the window, if it weren't for the three people hiding here, they would have been killed by random arrows.

Gu Yinglian's face turned pale with fright, and she asked tremblingly. "What should we do, what should we do?"

I don't know how long it took, but I heard a hurried sound outside, and it was Ling Ning and Wang Ken who rushed into the house.

"Queen Mother, Madam-" Wang Ken's voice was full of nervousness, but by the light of the fire outside, he saw that there was no one on the bed, and he barely survived.

Hearing Wang Ken's voice, the Queen Mother hurriedly got out from under the bed with the little emperor in her arms, and asked with a blank face: "Who shot the arrow?" ”

However, as soon as her words fell, she heard the sound of fighting outside, and the panicked screams of the woman.

It was Ling Ning who was the first to speak, and she cried: "Queen Mother, the slave maid looks at those people who are fierce and vicious, they must be bandits on the mountain. ”

Gu Yinglian was angry and hateful: "I didn't expect the mourning family to be angry with those barbarians, and the mourning family wanted to crush their bones and scatter ashes." ”

As soon as her words fell, Wang Ken hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, they attacked just now, and we have suffered countless casualties, so let's leave here." ”

Yu Zhiyan had already climbed out from under the bed at this time, listening to the sound of fighting outside, she hurriedly said: "These mountain bandits have always been mercenary, I'm afraid that they are worried about the treasure, or abandon them and leave quickly, this barren mountain and wilderness, we have no food, naturally we can't beat those mountain bandits." ”

These treasures were all the lives of the Queen Mother, so that she abandoned how she was willing.

Seeing that she couldn't make up her mind for a long time, Yu Zhiyan suddenly turned pale in a hurry, "Queen Mother, compared to life, what are these things?" ”

At this time, the king was also sweating profusely, "Queen Mother, those guards can't resist." ”

Seeing that the fighting outside was getting stronger and stronger, the Queen Mother hugged the little emperor in her arms tightly, "Okay, let's go." ”

*****

The Queen Mother and the rest of these people fled overnight, and when the sky was bright, the guards had already broken in half, and the female dependents of the emperor's relatives and relatives did not know how many people were running overnight, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

Gu Yinglian listened to the guard's warning, tears drooping on her pale face, "There's nothing, there's nothing—"

All the treasures that Gu Yinglian took away from the palace fell into the hands of the group of robbers who took advantage of the fire to rob.

Without those tiring gold, silver and jewelry, it took more than half a month to rush to Luoyang City.

Tan Zong, the Taishou of Luoyang, led people out of the city early to greet him, and when he saw the queen mother's sedan chair, he hurriedly led everyone to kneel down and kowtow.

Gu Yinglian, who had been embarrassed for a long time, had not been respected like this for a long time, so she only got off the sedan chair in person, helped Tan Zong up with her own hands, and said excitedly: "Aiqing, please get up." ”

Tan Zong is a loyal minister, even if he is over half a hundred years old, he still serves the country and benefits the people of Luoyang.

He looked pampered and not surprised, "Weichen has ordered someone to prepare the meal, and asked the Queen Mother and the Emperor to move to the Taishou Mansion." ”

Soon Gu Yinglian took Yu Zhiyan and a few close palace maids to the Taishou Mansion, and sure enough, she saw that there was wine and meat in the main house, although it was not comparable

Those who go to the palace are dreamed of for those who have not seen meat for a whole month.

Gu Yinglian asked Yu Zhiyan to eat together, and the two of them almost finished the entire table.

After Yu Zhenyan took a bath and changed clothes with his stomach in his hand, he slept in a room in the Taishou Mansion. She slept for a long time this night, but when she woke up, she was sore and sick.

She dreamed of Gu Jue almost every day, dreaming that he was standing in front of her bloodily, as if he wanted to say something to herself, but she couldn't hear anything.

In his sleep he called his name over and over again, knowing that she would wake him up, and she would always be alone on the empty bed.

Seeing that her illness was not getting better, the Queen Mother found a doctor to treat her, only saying that it was a heart disease, and if she couldn't open the heart knot, her body could only weaken day by day.

Gu Yinglian didn't know where her heart knot was, and even the letters sent by Gu Jue who had ordered people to travel thousands of miles no longer showed it to her, for fear that she would hear the bad news and her body would not be able to stand it.

Yu Zhiyan lay on the bed every day, and he didn't know how long he had survived, only until all the leaves on the dead leaves of the peony flowers outside the window had fallen, and he learned from Ling Ning's mouth that Gu Jue was here.

Gu Jue escaped almost all the way, and the successive defeats and injuries on his body had already made him unable to parry Feng Huang's pursuit.

He led the remnants of his soldiers and only came to the south of the Yangtze River.

Her scarce body seemed to be filled with strength at once, and she didn't even put on her outer robe, so she hurried out of the city.

The people in the city also went to see the excitement, and on the empty Luoyang Ancient Road, she was the only one running.

Ling Ning, who was chasing from afar, kept shouting, "Madam, you slow down, slow down." ”

But Yu Zhiyan still felt that she was not fast enough, she and Gu Jue had not seen each other for a few months, and she felt that it had been as long as half a lifetime.

Until she passed through the long corridor of the city gate, she saw countless remnants of defeated soldiers standing outside the city gate, and the leader was Gu Jue, who was full of elegance.

His eyes were as heavy as ashes, as if the constant defeats had destroyed all the arrogance in him, and his invincibility was a mess after all.

Yu Zhiyan's thin body passed through the countless crowds, only standing on the side of the road, shouting loudly to the man on the white horse, "Donglang." ”

It was that familiar shout, Gu Jue tightly reined in the horse in his hand, turned his face slightly, but saw Yu Zhiyan standing in the crowd, looking at him with a smile on his face.

Unlike the heavy faces of the people around her, only a faint smile was on her face, and this smile seemed to wash away his embarrassment.

She smiled beautifully, the corners of her shallow lips were slightly hooked, and even the pear vortex that was obvious in the cloth was revealed.

It was as if she was not greeting a defeated person, but like a hero returning triumphantly.

In a trance, he had already dismounted, and only came to Yu Zhiyan, and the two of them were speechless and condensed, as if the world had become quiet in an instant.

The wind blew the messy hair on Yu Yanyan's sideburns, she raised her eyes and said to him who was close to him, "Donglang, you're back." ”

Gu Jue reached out and hugged her tightly in his arms, regardless of whether the silver armor on his body would hurt her thin body.

"Folding cigarettes, I'm defeated." His voice was as faint as nothingness, but he was still clearly heard by Yu Zhiyan.

"You are not defeated, you will always be a hero in my heart." In fact, Yu Zhiyan also knew that Gu Jue's defeat was not his incompetence, but that the Queen Mother had lost the support of the people, and he was no longer able to return to heaven.

"I know you're comforting me." He lowered his head and buried his face deep between her clothes, "I really tried my best, tried my best to protect you, the queen mother, and the emperor." ”

Yu Zhiyan felt a wetness on her shoulders, and her heart trembled, it turned out that he would also cry because of failure, and he would also be annoyed because he couldn't protect the person he loved.