With the sound of "plopping", Zhao Qinming, who was covered in blood, could no longer support it and knelt down in the grass.

He took people and a line of dead soldiers to protect the eldest princess of Yongyang and escaped from the palace, along the way, in order to kill, throw off or lead away the pursuers, the people who accompanied him died, the wounded were injured, and now he escaped here by the secret passage, and he was the only one left on the side of the eldest princess of Yongyang.

"Back then...... When Lu County was almost lost, and his subordinates were about to die under the enemy's saber, it was His Royal Highness...... Coming with reinforcements...... Saved Lu County, and also saved his subordinates......" Zhao Qinming knelt there with a long sword, his body hung weakly, and he made a sound with difficulty.

He will never forget that day.

In the midst of the bloody battle, the enemy who raised his knife against him was suddenly shot and killed-

After the enemy fell, he saw a man and a horse.

The woman in silver armor and with a longbow was no more than eighteen or nineteen years old.

Her expression was calm, and when her gaze swept towards him, her unwavering eyes looked like a god looking at all beings.

At that moment, there was only one voice in his heart - it turned out that this was the rumored Princess Yongyang.

Since then, when he looked at her, he was destined to look up and admire.

It is like faith that exists deeply rooted in the bottom of the heart, and there is no possibility of uprooting.

He would never question her right or wrong, just as a mortal never questioned the gods.

“…… At that time, his subordinate was just a small soldier who didn't even deserve his name, and his Highness had secretly taken care of him for many years...... Only then will your subordinates have the opportunity to serve Your Highness......"

"But, the subordinates are stupid...... This time failed to help His Highness succeed, but dragged His Highness down......"

His voice was full of guilt and trembling.

The eldest princess of Yongyang, who was two steps ahead of him, stopped, turned to look at him: "At this time, she is still talking about these stupid things-"

Her gaze fell on the blood-soaked armor and robe in front of him, and her tone was indifferent: "It seems that you are going to die too." ”

"Yes......" Zhao Qinming raised his head with great effort and looked at her ashamedly: "My subordinates are incompetent, and I can't follow His Highness anymore...... Three miles away, there is Liuyin Temple...... When His Highness got there, he was safe. ”

There are dead soldiers who are loyal to His Highness in that mountain temple, and there are secret passages to hide themselves in.

"Your Highness, walk alone in the mountains...... Be careful. His gaze was fixed on that indifferent face, and he could not leave it for a moment.

The eldest princess of Yongyang walked towards him, bent down in front of him and stretched out her hand.

Your Highness will take him with you!

Zhao Qinming's heart swelled with great hope and joy, but he subconsciously said: "Your subordinates can't drag down Your Highness anymore......"

The next moment, the hand with the sword was empty, and he fell to the ground on his stomach when he lost his support.

"You don't need this sword."

The eldest princess of Yongyang carried her sword and said.

Zhao Qinming smiled tremblingly, raised his head and looked up at her: "Yes...... Your Highness, take it with you. ”

This is Your Highness.

Always calm, rational, self-conscious, never burdened by useless things.

He is also useless at this time, and should be discarded.

"There's still strength." The eldest princess of Yongyang held a sword in one hand, raised the sleeve of her wide dragon robe in the other hand and pointed to the path on the left: "Go forward along this road, go as far as you can, and die on this road with blood stains, so as to lure them away for the palace and delay some time." ”

"Yes...... Subordinates receive orders. ”

Zhao Qinming put his palms on the ground, tried his best to stand up, and staggered in the direction her fingers pointed.

He's still useful, and he's able to do something for her, so good.

After a few steps, he fell to the ground again and got up again.

Until he was unable to stand up again, he could only crawl forward.

The eldest princess of Yongyang never turned her head to look at it, walking in the mountains and forests with a sword, her hair was scattered and hanging down, and her blood-stained dragon robe was scratched by thorns and branches and mountains and rocks in many places, and her eyes were always only looking ahead, and she never shifted or wavered.

Until there was a sound of footsteps ahead, a figure appeared, blocking her way.

The eldest princess of Yongyang's eyes moved slightly, looking at the figure in the dimness, silently watching him left and right.

"Don't look at it, it's just me." Yan Luo looked at her, her figure was hidden by the ink-colored cloak, hidden in the darkness, making it difficult to see her demeanor: "You are slow, I have been waiting here for a long time." ”

"You know this palace will come here......" Princess Yongyang narrowed her eyes.

"Yes."

"You know that Zhao Qinming is from the palace, and he pretended to send it to the door...... The arming map was stolen by you and revealed to Shi Jingzhi. ”

"Yes."

The eldest princess of Yongyang sneered: "This palace underestimates you." ”

"If you don't even have this ability, how can you be worthy of your cultivation over the years." Yan Meng slowly approached her: "Do you know why I am like this?" Because I don't want to be used by you anymore, you think I'm a madman, such a stubborn madman, I will never go the same way as my brother...... But I'm not as good as you want, and I want to turn your determination into a clever joke. ”

At this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and there was a hint of revenge in his tone: "Li Wei, everything is out of control, how does it feel to be eaten by ants?" ”

The pleasure quickly dissipated, and he looked at her with his eyes down, unable to hide the surging hatred: "Do you know what a dear and admired person I have regarded you all these years...... I worship you as the heaven and the earth, the sun and the moon, and even feel that it is dark and insignificant, so I have to be careful even to please you, and blame myself for all the evil deeds, and I never dare to let you know only for fear of disturbing your ears and eyes, but I don't know that all this is what you control and create! ”

"Li Wei, you are simply a demon who has no heart of his own, but wants to feed on people's hearts-"

Seeing him like this, the eldest princess of Yongyang only looked at a joke that was not worth mentioning: "So you came here alone to let the palace listen to these stupid ideas of yours?" ”

"No......" Yan Meng looked at her, his eyes calmed down a little: "I'm here to take you where you should go-"

Before he finished speaking, a dagger appeared in his right hand under the cloak and stabbed towards the eldest princess of Yongyang.

The two were extremely close, and the eldest princess of Yongyang raised her hand to block his movements, snatched the dagger, and stabbed him in the heart.

Her movements were fast and precise, and there was no change in the expression on her face—

"It's up to you, and you want to kill this palace too. When Hongu was seventeen years old and went to the battlefield to kill the enemy, you were not yet born. ”

She pressed her hand harder, and when Yan Ming's brows furrowed, he held her hand tightly and helped her push the dagger deeper.

He used almost all his strength, and as he pushed her hand forward, the blade cut through her palm.

The eldest princess of Yongyang looked at him with interest: "It turns out that you came to let this palace kill you......"

"People like me, dying in the hands of others, will only make people dirty......" Yan Miao smiled tremblingly: "Li Wei, you and I will go to hell together." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, blood poured out of his mouth.

The eldest princess of Yongyang's eyes changed slightly, took a step back, and looked at the palm that was cut by the dagger: "You used poison——?! ”

Yan Meng laughed, more blood gushed out, and he staggered two steps and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the wound in the palm of her hand had turned black, the eldest princess of Yongyang frowned.

Qi Zhen is not there, and no one can detoxify her!

This kind of poison, once the poison spreads to the heart and lungs, I am afraid that it will kill her in a moment!

No, she must not die!

The next moment, she held the sword in her left hand and swung it at the poisoned arm without hesitation—

The severed arm flew away, blood splattered.

The pain caused her to let out a groan from the depths of her throat, and she clutched the bleeding wound tightly, and after struggling to walk a few steps into the grass, she finally sat down against a large tree with vines, her face white and hideous cold sweat falling down.

The sound of horses' hooves breaks the silence of the mountains and forests.

"General, it's just ahead!"

“……”

Xiao Mu and Hengyu dismounted and walked towards Yan Yu quickly.

"Ah Jin!"

Xiao Mu stepped forward and bent down to hold Yan Meng up.

"Brother......

Yan Meng looked at him with a very pale and pure smile.

"Hurry up!" Heng Yu squatted down, took out a pill that he had hidden with him and stuffed it into his mouth: "Go back to Grandpa Bai and Doctor Yan to treat you-"

Yan Meng shook his head at her slightly, and the next moment he vomited out a large mouthful of black blood, spitting out the pill he had just swallowed.

"Little Seventeen, it's useless......" He looked at Hengyu: "In this way, I am relieved, and I deserve it......"

He looked at Xiao Mu: "Brother, I have repeatedly argued with you before...... It's because I know in my heart that I can't stand with you, I have too much blood on my hands, and I can't turn back, I can't convince myself, and I know that I don't deserve to be with you......"

"So, I am cowardly and evasive, and I can only try to drag you along my way with me...... In this way, you can deceive yourself and convince yourself that you are right......"

"Fortunately, my brother has not been dragged into this abyss by me, and has become as unrecognizable as me......" He spoke slowly and weakly, and his consciousness became sluggish, and he gradually became a little incoherent: "That night, I secretly went home to see ......"

"Brother, I know it's wrong...... Can I still go home? ”

Xiao Mu nodded and said in a dumb voice: "Of course, my brother promised to take you home-"

Tears welled up in Yan Ming's eyes when he heard this, as if he had received great salvation.

He was very cold, and his eyes became pitch black, so he could only raise a hand weakly: "Little Seventeen......"

Heng Yu grabbed the hand: "I'm here." ”

“…… Am I, it's time to call you sister-in-law? Yan Ming's voice was low, with a smile on his face: "I'm a few years older than you, but I'm going to call you a sister-in-law......

"Since I met you, my happiness has always been genuine...... The name is also real......"

"I know." Heng Yu grabbed his cold hand tightly: "You helped me at the beginning, you never thought of being unfavorable to me, I know it's fake, I know it's true, I always knew it." ”

At this moment, she only talks about the right and wrong between her and him.

Yan Meng smiled reassuringly: "...... Okay, that's good. ”

His voice was so weak that he couldn't hear it: "Brother, it's cold here, let's go home......"

"Okay, go home."

With this answer, Yan Meng closed his eyes.

The mountain breeze rustled through the forest, and he seemed to have returned to the peaceful and carefree years of his childhood.

After a while, Heng Yu slowly got up, stepped over the stump, and walked into the bloodstained grass.

The eldest princess of Yongyang, who fell under the tree, was surrounded by the sergeant brought by Xiao Mu with a sword.

She said intermittently, "...... Father, teacher, big brother...... They always praised me, but they never thought I was more worthy of that position! ”

"Just because I'm a woman......"

"I'm not wrong, it's them...... The world owes me nothing! ”

"The ignorant ants of the Liu family dare to despise and ridicule me for not being able to conceive an heir...... I crushed them to death, and I deserved it, and the horses of this palace were killed by my own hands! Before he died, he begged for mercy...... was about to swallow his breath, and he grabbed Bengong's dress and begged Bengong to save him. ”

"Winning or losing for a moment doesn't matter...... Sooner or later I'll get everything back! ”

"Ha ......"

She let out a faint but maniacal laugh.

Hengyu lowered his eyes and looked at her broken arm: "The broken arm pretends to be crazy, I don't want to die, I want to live, right?" Then you'd better get through, live, watch, be sober, disappointed, unwilling, tormented - until one day, torture yourself to death in the backlash. ”

The best punishment for such a madman is for her to see everything running counter to her delusions.

When Heng Yu turned around, he said, "Take the person back and hand it over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to dispose of, there is no need to stop the bleeding and treat her." ”

"Yes!"

……

……

Li Wei was taken to the palace and placed at the disposal of the crown prince.

Heng Yu followed Xiao Mu back to the Shu State Mansion, brought Yan Ming's body back there, and after it was properly settled, he instructed his henchmen to guard it.

When the two of them came out of the Shu Guo Mansion, it was almost dawning.

The city is full of soldiers and officials who search for rebels, and a group of officials pass by here, and see that someone has come out of the long-sealed Shuguo Mansion openly, and an official is about to come forward to interrogate when he is stopped by his own superior.

"Don't you see, it's Lu Longjun who is guarding outside!" That Shangfeng glared at him: "Hugh wants to be troublesome-"

The official took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw two soldiers in black armor guarding the stone lion.

It's really Lu Longjun!

Yesterday was Lu Longjun's entry into Beijing to turn the tide!

According to this, the young man who came out of it and was being saluted by Lu Longjun...... Is it Dingbei Hou Xiao Mu?

The official looked over with admiration in his eyes, and was slapped on the head by Shangfeng: "Don't embarrass me, go quickly, there are still many errands!" ”

The official shrank his head stupidly, and when he left with Shangfeng, he couldn't help but secretly glance back - I don't know which little lady beside Dingbei Hou is?

"Ah Heng, shall I send you back to rest?" Xiao Muzheng said to Hengyu.

Hengyu, who had not relaxed for a long time and closed his eyes, was embarrassed at this time, but shook his head: "I want to go to Grandpa Bai first, and now I want to go, where is he placed now?" ”

Since Xiao Mu had previously "died", the Dingbei Hou Mansion in Beijing was seized for treason, Wang Jingyong escaped early, and Yin Hai and Yan Ming obediently tied their hands and squatted in the prison in order to cover up Li Wei's eyes and ears-

Naturally, Doctor Bai was also arranged early to secretly leave the Dingbei Hou Mansion.

"It's in a courtyard in the middle of the city." Xiao Mu handed her a hand: "Let's go, I'll take you there." ”

Hengyu nodded, took the hand he handed over, and got on the horse with him and left.

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