On the same day, Shen Xiao sent me back to the palace.

But I had just stepped into the gate of the Huayin Hall with my front foot, and when I saw me from afar, I immediately came with a flat mouth.

"Princess, why did you come back? You don't even know the days when you are not in the palace, the slave misses you! "Mokoshin held my shoulder, teary eyes.

I didn't speak, just raised my eyelids tiredly, and stared blankly at her little face, which was gradually turning from grievance to panic when I noticed the blood-stained armor on my body.

"Princess... What's wrong with you? Hurt? Where's the injury? Does it hurt? I'll inform the medical officer right away..."

Momoshin asked me a series of questions, and her round cheeks showed a look of horror, and she was about to rush out of the door in a panic.

"No need." Shen Xiao raised his hand to stop her, paused for a moment, and said softly, "Let her be quiet by herself!" ”

"But..."

Taoxin wanted to say something, and I had already raised my legs and went straight to the Huayin Palace.

…

And when I closed the door and faced this cold world with only myself, my heart seemed to be able to breathe, and it calmed down a lot in an instant.

Then he looked down and looked at the blood stains on his body that had dried up into dark brown, and then remembered everything in Fengcheng... It seems to be vivid, but it seems so ethereal.

While these two emotions contradict each other, I have no strength to grieve anymore, although my heart feels like something is missing... Even though my heart was still aching so sharply, the tears could no longer flow.

Just curled up in the corner, looking at the mottled shadows cast by the sun on the ground, and laughing dumbly.

I... What is this doing?

However, in the midst of the chaos, time did not slow down because of my pain.

By the time I reacted, I had been in the house for three whole days.

Counting the time, my father should have known the news of the death of the prince's brother at this time, but the palace was still silent.

Only the peach heart outside the door kept buttoning my door, and his tone was very anxious.

"Princess, will you eat something? Otherwise, how can the body stand it? Princess..."

I didn't want to see her, I didn't want to hear her chatter, but when I was about to get up and blast her away, my legs were crawling like billions of ants, and I lost consciousness for a while.

"Come out, princess! Slave beg, not only have you not eaten or drunk for the past three days, but you have not even seen the emperor coming, what can you do if you continue like this? ”

I frowned, listened to Momo's slightly crying voice, and continued to struggle to get up...

At this time, the bell tower in the palace suddenly sounded the bell of "dang, dang, dang".

No more, no less, exactly three times... It's the death knell!

My unhealed heart gradually subsided with the aftermath of the death knell, as if someone had ripped it open, and the severe pain made my body fall to the ground no longer strong.

Oh, yes... I know very well that after three death knells, it was completely announced to the world that Zhongli no longer had the prince's brother, and he disappeared like a wisp of air in this world... I can't see it anymore...

No, I'm going to see him, I have to give him one last ride, I can't let the person who treats me the best disappear from the world like this...

"Brother Prince..."

Thinking of this, I got up again with a painful sigh, but the feeling of ten thousand ants gnawing at the soles of my feet did not lessen in the slightest.

So I stumbled head-on into a vase, only to hear a loud thud and the vase fell to the ground and shattered under my head.

Outside the door, Mokoshin didn't know what was going on inside, but she heard the sound of the vase breaking and thought that something had happened to me, so she quickly kicked open my closed door.

After seeing my loveless expression, he was even more frightened and grabbed my wrist violently, lest I would do something to hurt myself, "Princess, although I know you are sad, you must not do anything stupid,"

"Peach Heart... Fast... Take me..."

I didn't rest for several days, and three days of water and food starvation made me dizzy on the top of my head, staggering and almost collapsing to the ground, but fortunately, Taoxin helped me in time.

"Princess, are you alright?" Momoxin looked at my eyes with moisture, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

In order to comfort her, I had to raise a smile that I thought was warm, and shook my head wryly, "It's okay." ”

"The slave and maid ordered someone to bring something to eat? The princess hasn't eaten for many days, so why don't you eat something first? ”

I continued to shake my head, at this time I just wanted to see the prince brother, where else to eat.

Half of Taoxin held my arm, I leaned on her shoulder shallowly, and said with a wry smile, "Taoxin, you can take me to meet the prince's brother..."

After listening to what I said, Momoxin's body stiffened significantly, and she looked sideways at me for a while before nodding heavily, and made an "um" sound from her nose.

He then took my arm up, and carefully accommodated my steps, and slowly walked out of the Huayin Palace.

According to the rules set by the ancestors, whenever there is a funeral in the palace, in order to show respect for the deceased, no matter who is in the palace, no one is allowed to use the chariot sedan chair.

My body was extremely weak at this time, so it took me half an hour to walk to the temple with Tao Xinsheng on weekdays.

At the door, I looked at the overwhelming whiteness inside, but my legs were as heavy as lead for a moment, and then my face turned pale.

"Princess, what's wrong with you?" Peach shook my hand, but I didn't feel it.

It's just that through the endless stream of people coming and going to mourn, I looked at the two figures kneeling under the red lacquered coffin.

"Sister-in-law of the crown princess... Lin'er..."

I walked in as if I was enchanted, and let the people who came to mourn look at me strangely.

Noticing the abnormality behind her, the princess and sister-in-law turned around, and her clear eyes were stunned for a moment when they looked at me, for a moment... The smile was like a flower, as if nothing had happened, but the eyes were clearly swollen and terrible.

"Her Royal Highness the princess has come down." The princess's sister-in-law greeted me, and then instructed the subordinates next to her to fetch a kneeling mat, and said with a smile, "Hurry up and put incense on your prince's brother, if he knows that you came to see him, he will be very happy." ”

"Princess's sister-in-law..."I watched her smile and forced a smile, and insisted that Shangzhuxiang was like eating a meal, and my heart hurt.

With the careful support of Tao Xin, he knelt in front of the coffin, and then took the incense handed by the little eunuch in linen mourning clothes.

I looked down at the three red incense sticks in my hand, and the curling green smoke that gradually rose after being burned, and suddenly seemed to see the simple and lovely face of the prince's brother again.

His heart moved, and he opened his lips lightly, "Sister-in-law of the crown princess... I..."

"Does Her Royal Highness the princess know what the last words the prince said to me before he set out on the expedition?"

The sister-in-law of the crown princess interrupted me, and finally showed a sad look in the swollen eyes that looked at me.

I couldn't help but be stunned, and after seeing her smile bitterly, I heard her continue, "The prince said... If he is unfortunate and never comes back, he hopes that his relatives around him can remember his happy appearance, not to be sad and not to cry, because he is more willing to see everyone smile and send him away than to rest in a mausoleum full of sorrow, princess... Do you understand? ”

I bowed my head and didn't say a word, but the tip of my nose was sore, looking at the red incense in my hand, and the tear ducts that had finally dried up almost collapsed again.

It turned out that the prince's brother had been preparing for this day for a long time, so would the princess's sister-in-law persuade me like this?

After a long time, the princess's sister-in-law sighed lightly, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hurry up and incense your prince's brother!" ”

"Good!"

In order not to worry her, I looked up and pretended to smile easily, and bowed to the red gold coffin...

Although I know that there is no prince brother in this at all.

Then I looked sideways, and I looked at Yinglin, who had been bowing her head and not saying a word by the side of the princess and sister-in-law.

I saw that his little shoulders were rising and falling violently, probably because the prince's brother said that he hoped that everyone would send him away with a smile, so he couldn't bear to let his emotions explode.

But he's just a kid after all! I lost my father at such a young age...

"Lin'er," I called softly, raising my hand to grasp his clenched fist, and said firmly, "Don't be sad, aunt... I will surely slay the enemy and avenge your father's hatred. ”