Then, Ye Ningxiang asked Mu Bai a few more questions, and like the first question, Mu Bai answered vaguely, and did not let Ye Ningxiang get any substantive answers. However, one thing Ye Ningxiang can be sure of, Mu Bai is willing to help her and willingly give up his life for her.

If Mu Bai did such a thing to another person, Ye Ningxiang would definitely scold him for being a fool in front of Mu Bai, but now that Mu Bai did such a thing to her, she was heartbroken, and she couldn't bear to sketch the picture of Mu Bai when he died in her heart. But there is always a voice in her heart: she is the culprit who killed Mu Bai, and she made Mu Bai die step by step.

Before she knew it, her rock-hard heart softened, and hot teardrops slipped from the corners of her eyes. For the first time in seven years, she was crying in front of him.

She stood in front of Mu Bai for a long time before leaving, and the night she returned to the palace, her mind was full of Mu Bai's figure, and her ears were full of the last words Mu Bai left her: "I will not be by your side in the future, you must protect yourself well, and you must live strongly." ”

Probably unable to bear the fact that Mu Bai was about to die, Ye Ningxiang had a high fever and became seriously ill early the next morning. She was very sick, her whole body was hot, and the world was spinning, although she tried her best to get to Tingwei to help Mu Bai secretly operate to save Mu Bai's life, she didn't even get up in bed in the end.

For seven days and nights, Ye Ningxiang spent her time in a drowsiness, shouting the word "Mu Bai" countless times in her mouth, and every time she shouted Mu Bai's name, tears would fall uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.

After the joint efforts of the Tai Hospital, finally on the morning of the seventh day, Ye Ningxiang opened her eyes from her slumber, and her originally hot body returned to normal temperature. After waking up, Ye Ningxiang's first thought was Mu Bai, who couldn't care about her weak body at all, so she quickly got up and ran towards Tingwei.

"Where is Mu Bai?"

Ye Ningxiang rudely rushed into the court lieutenant, grabbed a court lieutenant official and asked eagerly.

"Leaf ...... Empress Ye, today is the day of the execution of the criminal Mu Bai and the former prime minister Feng Jingzhi, and right now, these two criminals should have gone to the prison beheading platform at the entrance of the vegetable market on West Street to wait for the execution. ”

"What did you say?"

didn't have time to confirm the official's response, so Ye Ningxiang hurriedly ran towards the prison beheading platform. She was only sick for seven days, and according to common sense, these short seven days were not enough to find out all the cases committed by Feng Jingzhi, and even the results of the trial had been made public.

There can only be one reason why Tingwei's movements are so fast, Xiao Qingyu, who is still on the throne, secretly did something. Although she, like Xiao Qingyu, hoped that Feng Jingzhi would die soon, but at this moment, she didn't want Mu Bai to bury Feng Jingzhi.

She hadn't figured out a way to rescue Mu Bai yet, what should she do to save Mu Bai from death? The more she thought about it, the more Ye Ningxiang's brain went blank, and in the end, Ye Ningxiang could no longer think about anything with peace of mind, but just ran tirelessly towards the prison platform.

In the center of the prison beheading platform were kneeling two men in prison uniforms, one was an old man with a pale and haggard face, and the other was a man whose face was full of scars and whose appearance was so ruined that he could not tell his age. The two were tied up with hemp rope and faced the scorching sun, cruelly waiting for time to pass minute by minute, waiting for death to come.

Suddenly, a burst of wild laughter erupted from Feng Jingzhi's mouth, which was creepy but also desolate.

"I can't imagine that I have enjoyed all the glory and wealth in my life, power and honor, but today I will end up in a different place. ”

Although Feng Jingzhi was defeated, he didn't want to die in such a daze, he still had doubts in his heart, he wanted to know why Mu Bai was willing to sacrifice his life to drag him into the water.

"But Mr. Mu, what are you doing this for? We have been working together for so many years, and we have long been grasshoppers on a rope, don't you know that you can't get rid of it if you denounce me? And the emperor and Empress Ye will not come to save you at all. ”

When he said this, there was no resentment in Feng Jingzhi's tone, but a little more sympathy, as if he thought that this crazy Mu Bai was used by Ye Ningxiang or Xiao Qingyu, and he had a sincere heart but was abandoned by others, so it was really not worth dying like this.

Mu Bai smiled, not agreeing or defending, as if the Mr. Mu in Feng Jingzhi's mouth was not him, but a stranger who had nothing to do with him.

"I thought that Lord Feng's son Feng Yi would come to save you, but now I am afraid that he is afraid of death and will abandon you, and let you become a fish on the knife. ”

Then Mu Bai shook his head, turned his head to look at Feng Jingzhi, who was much older, and sighed: "If your son doesn't come to see you off, those officials who have received your favor are also hiding far away, in the end, you are really desolate and miserable!"

Probably this sentence entered Feng Jingzhi's heart, he lowered his head and stopped talking to Mu Bai. Through his slightly trembling jaw, it can be seen that this old minister, who has been galloping in officialdom for decades, is crying at the moment. The faint, almost imperceptible cry reveals the misery and sorrow of the kind of man who is about to die, who is about to die, but who is so lonely and desolate that only Mu Bai, the enemy, has his companion.

As it got closer and closer to noon, more and more people gathered around the prison platform. No matter how glorious you have been, once you become a prisoner, the glory of the past will be trampled to nothing along with your own dignity.

The do-gooders among the people prepared rotten leaves, swill soup, and other garbage that tasted strange enough to be disgusting. In the midst of the insults, these filthy things were thrown into Mu Bai and Feng Jingzhi through the hands of the people without hesitation.

"Big corrupt officials, don't die well!"

"Shoot you, shoot you!"

Seeing those filthy things that he couldn't even name thrown on his body, listening to the urging insults, Feng Jingzhi laughed wildly again, but behind this smile was endless fear and grief.

Fortunately, such unreasonable behavior did not last long, and soon the executioner sent soldiers to isolate these rude people, and Mu Bai and Feng Jingzhi really ushered in the moment of execution.

"The hour has come, execution!"

As soon as the supervisor finished speaking, the two cabinet men raised their polished broadswords, preparing to cut off the heads of Feng Jingzhi and Mu Bai with one sword. Feng Jingzhi sighed and then closed his eyes, waiting for the moment when the big knife would sink into his neck. But at this moment, Mu Bai opened his mouth and answered the confusion that had always existed in Feng Jingzhi's heart.

"Lord Feng, haven't you always wondered why I would risk my life to expose you. I'll tell you now. ”

Being able to be a ghost after death, Feng Jingzhi can be regarded as a worthwhile life, he turned his head, and his old eyes looked at Mu Bai expectantly, waiting for Mu Bai's next words.

"Because I'm Mu Xize. ”

Feng Jingzhi's eyes widened, but before he could ask Mu Bai's words, bright red blood erupted from his neck, followed by the sound of his head hitting the prison platform.

He couldn't have imagined that this person who was willing to sacrifice his life to denounce him would be His Royal Highness King Ning who had left before, the half-body nine-tailed fox demon who should have been pierced through his heart by Ye Ningxiang in the battle of Jing'an.

It turned out that from beginning to end, Mu Bai did not want to sacrifice his life to drag Feng Jing into the water, because no matter what kind of death penalty was used, Mu Bai would not die, but Feng Jingzhi was sure to die. From the moment Feng Jingzhi agreed to cooperate with Mu Bai, Feng Jingzhi had already been defeated, and it was only a matter of time before he was killed.

When Ye Ningxiang arrived at the prison beheading platform, she happened to see the moment when the executioner cut the necks of Mu Bai and Feng Jingzhi, and she saw with her own eyes Mu Bai's scarred head, mixed with gushing blood, falling onto the prison beheading platform, and her body was in a different place.

"Don't, don't!"

Ye Ningxiang rushed to the prison beheading platform like crazy, and saw clearly that the head on the ground was really Mu Bai's, she rarely lost her mind, and in front of the onlookers, she hugged Mu Bai's headless corpse and cried.

Obviously, it's just a partnership, and she and Mu Bai aren't even friends, but at this moment she is experiencing grief that she has never experienced before, as if the most important person in her life has left her. She didn't know why this was happening, and she didn't have the energy to think about why. Because her whole body and mind were unconsciously occupied by Mu Bai.

Ye Ningxiang didn't know when she lost consciousness, and when she woke up again, she had already returned to Changle Palace.

"Mother, you're finally awake. ”

Ah Bi changed the towel on Ye Ningxiang's forehead and showed a relieved smile.

"Why am I here? Mu Bai, where is Mu Bai?"

Ye Ningxiang's throat was swollen and sore terribly, and it took a lot of effort to say this, and her voice was hoarse.

Ah Bi could see that Ye Ningxiang cared about Mu Bai very much, and she didn't want Mu Bai to die, she looked sad and sighed: "Niangniang, Mr. Mu was beheaded in the prison beheading platform with Feng Jingzhi three days ago, and now his corpse has been buried in the ground. ”

What, Mu Bai has been dead for three days? Ye Ningxiang was shocked and looked at Ah Bi in disbelief, and finally the cruel scene she saw next to the prison beheading platform that day was remapped to her mind, Mu Bai was indeed dead.

And she rushed to the pool of blood and hugged Mu Bai's corpse and cried from day to night, and finally cried until she fainted. It was probably because she had lost consciousness that the officials who were in charge of the beheading had the courage to come to her and send her back to the palace.

It seems that she didn't save Mu Bai's life after all, she closed her eyes and didn't say anything for a long time. Ah Bi seemed to know Ye Ningxiang's state of mind at the moment, and bowed to Ye Ningxiang and withdrew from Changle Palace.

Late at night, it was dark in Ye Ningxiang's bedroom, she leaned on the head of the bed, and through the faint and hazy moonlight, she could see that Ye Ningxiang's cheeks had a little light, but this light was produced by her tears reflecting the moonlight.

She cried in the silence of the night, for some reason, but she simply couldn't stop the tears overflowing, but she couldn't control her emotions very uncontrollably.

Gradually, this crying turned into Ye Ningxiang's resentment and contempt for her incompetence, not only could she not save him, but she had to cry like a coward here, she clenched her fists angrily, her nails soaked in flesh and blood stained with blood.

It was also the same night that the star-like light gradually ignited on the tomb of Mubai in the barren mountain, and these lights gradually converged, reflecting the starry light of the entire barren mountain. When the light dissipated, a figure appeared on the grave, and the figure was ethereal, and it was impossible to see his true appearance.

However, there is no doubt that this person who is still just a figure at the moment is Mu Xize.