In the northern frontier, a war horse galloped forward and went straight to an official road leading to the capital.

It seems that only a cloud of smoke and dust remains, and the avenue is long. After the breeze passes, the dust rolls up, and everything disappears like time.

When the war horse galloped all the way to the palace in the capital, the deacon, chief eunuch and guard on duty on duty hurriedly went up, took the things in the hands of the messenger, and ran directly to the palace of heart cultivation.

In the Palace of Heart Cultivation, the lord of the country, Li Tianzhao, calmly browsed the secret report that the rotating eunuch had just sent in urgently, and immediately sat down on the dragon hammer in despair, and couldn't help but sigh, and fell into deep thought.

Outside the hall, there seemed to be countless sounds of panicked footsteps that suddenly came. Li Tianzhao knew that it must be the hurried footsteps of the Empress Dowager Liang and the palace maids, but he was powerless to prevent the tragedy that was about to unfold in front of him, all he could do was to do his best to send warm words of comfort to the Empress Dowager's panicked mood at this time.

As for the rest, he can only do his best and resign himself to the fate of heaven.

After March, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, the palace is full of colorful embroidery, red candles, gongs and drums, and the voices of people are boiling, as if a grand wedding is being held in full swing, turning the whole palace into a lively ocean.

The Empress Dowager Liang sat alone on the small pavilion in the Fenglai Palace, standing against the shadow, muttering to herself. "Qiusheng, my grandson, the declining family is here to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with you. No matter where you are, you must remember that today is a day of reunion for all the people in the world, and you are no exception. Come, Grandma Huang has given you a toast. ”

Leng Yue couldn't hold back her tears and said, "Queen Mother, the night outside the court is colder, let's go back to the palace, don't hurt yourself here." Otherwise, Leng Yue will be punished again. ”

The Queen Mother glanced at Leng Yue coldly, but she was still sitting motionless, quietly looking up at the bright moon in the sky like water, with tears in her eyes.

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, the lord of the country, Li Tianzhao, turned around and glanced at Dong Yanzhi, who was kneeling at the bottom of the stairs, and suddenly said softly and gently.

"Dong Yanzhi, I told you what I should have said, and I told you what I shouldn't have said. What to do, you don't have to tell you, do you? ”

"I am the king of a country, sitting on the world. Can't I have a woman like you? I'm not as good as a prince and general I have rewarded? That's not as good as an orphan of a royal family. ”

"Dong Yanzhi, Dong Yanzhi, even if you are determined to observe the festival for Li Qiusheng, you have to have a degree, not to mention that you are still so young. If it weren't for the fact that I still coveted your quyi and your lustful dogs and horses, I couldn't wait to soften your heart and kill you with a knife, and I went to the hardness of my heart. ”

"Don't let the people of the world laugh at me for this, what is the reason why I want to do it. You, the orphaned daughter of a courtier, can make me covet a few of your appearances, and she is already your ancestor who has accumulated virtue and manifested her spirit in this life. Don't you don't know what to do, in front of me sitting in front of the people of the world, I don't eat a toast, but I like to eat that cup of penalty wine. Then what you did, everything is to blame. ”

Dong Yanzhi seemed to have expected Li Tianzhao to do this, she raised her head extremely calmly and tactfully and replied.

"Your Majesty, as the head of a country, no matter what you say or do, Dong Yanzhi has no right to oppose you. Because you are the king of a country, and you wield the power of life and death in other people's hands, what can I, a woman from the common people, do if I have a thousand hatreds and resentments? If you have to force Dong Yanzhi to make a difficult choice between His Majesty and Brother Qiusheng, then Dong Yanzhi will definitely choose Brother Qiusheng instead of you. You already knew that this was the result, but I don't understand, why are you still using such means to persecute me? ”

"Although Brother Qiusheng is just a royal family under you, his love for Dong Yanzhi is loyal and incurable for a lifetime. is not the love for Dong Yanzhi under the wall, just out of a kind of liking and possession. Dong Yanzhi is now like a beautiful flower on the branches, who loves it when she sees it, and everyone wants to like its beauty in their hearts. But it is so hated that it withers and scatters, it can't talk about the former alliance of gold and stone, the sea is dry and rotten, let alone the words of only admiring mandarin ducks and not admiring immortals. ”

"In this way, Your Majesty, Dong Yanzhi has the courage to say again, even if you kill me with a knife under the wall now, I still can't be moved by the feelings under the wall. Because you're not Brother Qiusheng, and you're not the person who can touch the heart of an ordinary woman in me. Why should I covet your high position and harem nobility because of this chance encounter. ”

"Poverty is nothing but eating coarse chaff and grains, and wealth is nothing but fine clothes and food, nourishing fat and accumulating sharpness. With such a way of living, why should I force it to have it? It's not as good as a banquet in the world, not fast, but also dispersed quickly. ”

At this time, Li Tianzhao's unusually rapid breathing sound came from the hall again, and he snapped the dragon chair under his seat, pointing at Dong Yanzhi and reprimanding loudly. "Bold fanatic, Dong Yanzhi, don't you really understand my bad heart? is still pulling around, perfunctory. Don't think that with a bit of posture and piano, chess, and music, I won't dare to kill you. You must know that there are many beautiful women and people in the world waiting for me to go to my dragon bed! What kind of thing are you just a splasher? Dare to climb and seduce the noble royal bloodline, I, I have to chop you! ”

The anger of the lord of the country, Li Tianzhao, turned from love to hate, and slowly shrouded in the Heart Cultivation Hall for a while, and it seemed that it had to spread throughout the palace, violently scorching Dong Yanzhi's entire heart.

However, Dong Yanzhi looked back at Li Tianzhao above the main hall, but she smiled sadly and spit out a few words coldly.

"Your Majesty, if you are willing to chop me up now, I Dong Yanzhi still can't ask for it. The reason why I, Dong Yanzhi, have survived to this day is that I hope to see Brother Qiusheng return safely one day, and I want to keep my lifelong promise for him and keep a small green lantern. At that time, even if Dong Yanzhi dies under the wall, Dong Yanzhi will smile at ease. ”

After hearing Dong Yanzhi's angry words, Li Tianzhao was also so angry that he snorted angrily.

"Hmph, Dong Yanzhi, you think it's quite beautiful. But I won't let you die now, I'm going to let you live in pain! I want to make it clear to you that there is a great price to be paid for betraying the will of a king. ”

"Ha, ha, Lord of the Kingdom, I Dong Yanzhi don't care what price you will pay? I repeat, if life is only as first seen, what is the west wind sad fan. How many good skins are sentient beings, I only love the dry bones and sadness of Brother Qiusheng! ”

"You, you, you, this girl with sharp teeth and sharp teeth, I really want to be angry! Since you are so ruthless, then I will not be difficult for you. If you don't come back within half a month of your autumn birth, you just wait quietly to be my beautiful concubine! ”

Li Tianzhao gritted his teeth and said angrily in the hall again, his distorted and deformed face was like a demon who was about to eat people with his mouth open, as if he had lost his mind and destroyed the original human nature. In order to gain the mercy of a beautiful woman, he completely lost the kindness and affection that a king should have.

Under the hall, Dong Yanzhi still looked like her heart was not shocked, and she knelt quietly. Suddenly, she lightly opened her lips and fought back with unobtrusive shame.

"Your Majesty, these Dong Yanzhi have already learned your power. But for Dong Yanzhi, these are no longer important. The important thing is that I know that Brother Qiusheng will definitely return safely, and Brother Qiusheng will definitely love me like me, or even love him more than me. Please kill me first, you can kill my people, but you can't kill my heart, you can't kill my true heart that I and Brother Qiusheng love each other. ”

"You, you, it's time to get angry. The Queen Mother has compromised with my idea, what else can you object? After Li Tianzhao sighed, he took a few steps backwards, and Canglang's figure shook a few times and fell directly on the dragon chair, and he said weakly for a while.

"Well, Your Majesty, I know I can't change your first contract, but I can change my life. Whether it's long or short, I have never regretted it for Brother Qiusheng!"

Dong Yanzhi's face crossed a poignant arc again, and she muttered for a while. It is like the innocent and brilliant smile that passed over his face when he first met Li Qiusheng, and like the frivolous and elegant clouds on the horizon, quietly floating in the twilight sky, blooming with beauty in an instant.

Li Tianzhao helplessly snapped his already fainted head, supported his forehead with one hand and rubbed it a few times, suddenly collapsed weakly, and sat heavily on the dragon in the high hall.

I only heard a loud "pop", and the sound resounded throughout the entire palace that was silent as if it was dead, and it hit the heart of the lord Li Tianzhao in a daze.

Li Tianzhao slowly struggled to stand up on the dragon chair in amazement, staring directly at the hall under the stairs in horror. I saw that Dong Yanzhi's forehead had touched a column under the hall, and suddenly blood flowed, her eyes were scattered, and her face was as white as paper. The undulating chest was still crying out with great difficulty, chanting in a whisper.

"Autumn, autumn, autumn brother, if life is only as first seen, how beautiful is it? I'll be able to stay in that picture with you forever. But what's the West Wind sad fan? If you are sorrowful for the ages. How many good skins are sentient beings, I only love the dry bones and sadness of Brother Qiusheng! ”

"This, in this life, I am not afraid of the loneliness and desolation of the darkness, but I am afraid of thinking of your loneliness and crying blood."

"In the next life, it would be great if I could hold your hand in this life!"

"But I, how can I wait for another sorrow in the next life!"

"Smoke you and me together!"

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"Autumn, Brother Qiusheng, I'm sorry! Dong Yanzhi has failed you and your love. ”

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"I only wish that in the next life, I will be your Dong Yanzhi who will never abandon you in life and death."

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Li Tianzhao ran down frantically on top of the high hall. He hugged Dong Yanzhi's gradually paralyzed body, and his eyes slowly lost their luster, and he screamed sadly.

"Dong Yanzhi, why are you so stupid? Don't you want to let go of the dignity of a good country, and you won't fulfill it until you die? Why? Why? Until the end, you won't even leave me with a little hope? Could it be that I really love the wrong person? ”

However, seeing that the lights of the main hall at this time were lonely, the cold wind was ethereal, and the sunlight was silently shining on the main hall, as if a layer of silver-white brilliance had been crossed. For a moment no other movement could be heard, and the hall was like a flame about to be extinguished, and it was dim and gloomy.

Dong Yanzhi's face gradually became pale, faint and sparse, and there was a trail of blood flowing here and there, hanging in the gap between her mouth, like a dazzling little flower that suddenly appeared in the sun, lifelike, and silently emitted the brightest rays of light.

The lights fall lonely, and time is free. The sound of sadness, the silence and the crying, all seem to have disappeared in this lonely curtain of death, without a trace.

Life is not like a beautiful spring, as delicate as a flower, the flower blooms and falls, and it never goes out.

However, who created this encounter by chance in life.

A wisp of ghost, it seems to be fragrant and broken. A cry seems to have been quietly gone.

Outside the palace, in the ancient temple deep in the mountains, when the sound of Zen and bells slowly rings from the early morning, the morning birds in the forest scream from the sky, and the golden morning sun penetrates through the white clouds, shining on the Buddhist hall with cigarette smoke.

Li Qiusheng was already sitting quietly on the clean meditation hall, his hands folded, and the corners of his mouth moved. In the face of compassion, a string of swarthy Buddha beads hung impressively on his erection.

Next to it, a small green lantern flickered and danced dazzling lights.

It's like being in a different world, endlessly.

And so on, and on,

Traces of love.

Closing Remarks:

"Falling Lanterns" is all over here, thank you all the friends who have accompanied the scholars all the way, and sincerely thank you for your support and encouragement all the way. The way of the rivers and lakes will have no period in the future. It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

If there is fate, the rivers and lakes will definitely see you again!!