Outside Luoyang City, the city gate was opened, and 300,000 forbidden troops in Luoyang City poured out.

The sound of drums smashing on the battlefield was deafening, splashing smoke and dust in the sky.

In the small imperial city of Luoyang City.

Wan Jinhou, who finished the last sentence of his life, smiled and held the side of the door of the mansion, breathed with all his strength, and then slowly sat on the ground, he raised his head and looked at the shadow of the emperor in front of him, under the light, he couldn't see the man clearly...... The expression on the face at this moment.

Is it anger? or silence?

Cao Zhixuan pursed his lips slightly, his lips and teeth trembled slightly, he looked at Wan Jinhou sitting on the ground, and the whole world fell silent.

The sound of rapid breathing, accompanied by difficult, brief laughter, was beaten by a meal.

In the end, it was gone.

Wan Jinhou leaned against the threshold of the mansion, leaning limply against the side of the door, he tilted his head, and lost the last ray of luster in his eyes.

"Heh......"

Someone in front of the house laughed softly, very lonely.

"You're done...... You're cathartic, you're satisfied. Cao Zhixuan looked at Wan Jinhou's corpse and said softly: "Whatever I say, I am talking to the dead, and the crime of this ruined country is detained on my head...... What a capable person who governs the world, the indignant youth who died in the country, and the righteousness is awe-inspiring, isn't it still a death?"

He no longer looked at Wan Jinhou's corpse, but as he walked, he chuckled and muttered, "If you die...... can save Da Wei, how can it be your turn?"

He ended up walking outside a palace that wasn't too big.

A total of nine purple bamboos were planted outside the palace.

Not because the number "nine" is extraordinary, but because ...... In the Fengxian Palace, including the palace maids who serve the daily life of the palace, and the eunuchs who are responsible for passing orders and running errands, there are only nine people in total.

These nine purple bamboos, are from the South China Sea sent fairy purple bamboo, symbolizing the longevity, flourishing every year, in last year, Fengxian Palace just planted a young purple bamboo seedling, now has broken the ground, began to thrive.

The man squatted down, holding the scroll that Yan Xiaoqi had invited Beiguan to die in battle, and stretched out a hand to gently touch the most immature purple bamboo seedling.

He didn't say a word, he kept this position.

Gentle stroke, over and over again.

And at this moment, the woman standing behind the threshold of the Fengxian Palace was holding the baby in her arms, shaking her upper arms slightly, remaining silent, with a hint of distress, looking at the man who was squatting outside the Fengxian Palace, smiling, and stroking Zizhu over and over again and reluctant to let go.

Cao Zhixuan closed his eyes, took a hard breath, he slowly stood up, looked at Li Yu, the two looked at each other, and there was silence.

He said in a very light and hoarse voice, "Yan Xiaoqi...... He's dead. ”

Li Yu's shaky posture was stunned for a moment, and he looked at Cao Zhixuan in disbelief, his lips slightly opened, and he didn't know how to speak.

Cao Zhixuan smiled, pointed to the swaddling clothes in her arms, and continued to say softly: "Be quieter, put the child down, he finally fell asleep." ”

Li Yu took a deep breath, his face was solemn, he turned around and handed over the baby in swaddling clothes to the old eunuch behind him with low eyebrows, and said a few words very quickly.

"You don't have to go anywhere else, it's in this Phoenix Immortal Palace...... Walk with me for a while?"

Cao Zhixuan held the scroll and walked into the Fengxian Palace, he recounted everything that happened outside word by word, in an extremely flat tone.

The interior of the Fengxian Palace is far from luxurious, boxy, the fireplace is beating with red flames, Cao Zhixuan squatted in front of the fireplace, separated by a distance, looking directly at the burning red seedlings, and his pupils are also boiling with blood-like colors.

"The king of the northern plains retreated, and the battle of Luoyang City was isolated and helpless, and he fought against the water. He stretched out a hand and slowly stuffed the scroll into the flames, and the hot tongue of fire swallowed the scroll, bursting with a scarlet breath that carried the cold of human blood.

The woman who was desperate to save Luoyang City from the building was about to collapse, died in Invite Beiguan and died in the hands of Yi Xiao.

Cao Zhixuan didn't look back, watching the scroll being engulfed in flames little by little, and smiled: "We can't win." We lost. ”

Li Yu was silent for a long time.

She looked at the figure in front of her, the man who would never admit defeat, and she couldn't believe what she just said.

He admits defeat.

The man squatting in front of the fireplace, holding his knees with his hands, stood up slowly, and suddenly there was a burst of dizziness, and the whole world went dark.

Li Yu suppressed his anger and said, "Such an important moment...... Where's the purple robe?"

Cao Zhixuan stood still, closed his eyes, his body shook for a while, and he recovered very quickly, he laughed and said, "Luoyang City is in danger...... I have some people who care, Da Wei is dead, they always have to survive. Either way, there is hope. ”

Cao Nianqing...... will be taken to the Northern Plains by the purple robe. Cao Zhixuan inhaled and said, "He can't die, he has to live...... With him, Great Wei has the next destined king, who is justified and rightly named. If the purple robe has a chance to subdue the Northern Plains Royal Court and use the north as a stronghold, maybe there will be a chance to ......"

"Cao!!Xuan!"

The three words like a tiger roaring smashed into the palace of the Phoenix Immortal Palace.

The fireplace flame jumped three times.

The purple screen in the hall trembled, and the white paper used to trace words on the jade case flew all over the sky, floating around the main hall.

Cao Zhixuan didn't look back, he smiled indifferently.

There was a dead silence.

Li Yu's silence suddenly became terrifying.

She stared at the man in front of her and said word by word, "Don't you want to take Cao Nianqing away from me." ”

"You two won't be separated. Cao Zhixuan smiled and said, "Someone is waiting for you, how can I bear to leave you alone in Luoyang?"

"Heh......"

Li Yu's voice was frighteningly cold: "Da Wei is dead, it's a big deal that we will die together, and live secretly, is it useful?"

"Ha, hahaha...... Flee to Kitahara and leave hope...... Laughing to death......" she said stubbornly, "flee to the northern plain...... Even if all the royal court iron cavalry in the Northern Plains are all under your lordship, and Nalan and the King of Mobei bow down to the vassals, what can they do? Why don't those people dare to come to Luoyang City, don't you know in your heart? They want to negotiate terms with Qi Liang, they don't want much, as long as a piece of Beiguan, after Qi Liang completes the great unification, the king of Mobei abdicates, and the two sides are no longer an order of magnitude of combat power, there is no need to continue to entangle, from now on, ...... All the southern plunders will cease to exist, because after the Northern Plains Royal Court is broken in Luoyang City, it will become a vassal land of Qi Liang. ”

If you continue to fight, what can you do?

What can you do if you grab it again?

Cao Zhixuan turned around.

He looked at Li Yu and said calmly: "Don't fight...... How do you know, it's useless?"

Li Yu tried to take a deep breath, she used all her strength, but the breath that was most pressed in her heart had been loosened.

So this sentence, with a crying tone, trembles every word.

"We ...... Don't argue, okay?"

Cao Zhixuan smiled and did not answer.

He stretched out a hand and wanted to take Li Yu into his arms, but the woman suddenly took a step back.

Li Yu's whole body was trembling, she looked at the man, shook her head, and looked at herself with an extremely complicated look.

In that look, the meaning of imperial power faded to the extreme.

There was silence in the Fengxian Palace, and the old eunuch who had left before returned again, but this time he returned empty-handed, and a small and dense footsteps outside the palace broke the silence again, and the old eunuch put his hands on his sleeves and bowed down to Cao Zhixuan's side, this old man who had served in the Fengxian Palace for twenty years had always been just a person's henchman.

The old eunuch said two words softly.

"That's it. ”

Cao Zhixuan nodded, looked at Li Yu, and said seriously: "Luoyang North Gate, Cao Nianqing is waiting for you there." ”

Li Yu gritted his teeth and looked at Cao Zhixuan and said, "You madman...... You weak man...... Luoyang City is going to die, you are the first person to abandon the imperial capital, you want to escape, just by virtue of this, how can you win Qi Liang, and why can you be the emperor of Great Wei?"

A group of black-robed and linen members of the Senluo Dao Hall Association poured in outside the door, and the old eunuch sighed and said, "Niangniang...... Our family has settled down Your Highness, and please don't embarrass Your Majesty. ”

Li Yu pushed away the old eunuch's hand, stared at Cao Zhixuan and said, "If my brother is still there, seeing you like this, he will definitely look down on you." ”

Cao Zhixuan smiled and hummed.

His eyes swept over the crowd of Sen Luo Dao, and said majestically: "Take her to the north gate of Luoyang, this is the imperial order!"

After saying this, he didn't look at Li Yu's eyes anymore, stepped out of the door suddenly, waved his sleeves, and walked all the way out of Fengxian Palace.

A woman behind her cried and said, "Cao Zhixuan, I look down on you!"

Cao Zhixuan walked all the way and did not look back.

Oh, yes.

Everyone looks down on themselves.

Wan Jinhou said that he was unkind and unjust, jealous and suspicious, lazy and ignorant, weak and incompetent.

Li Yu said that he had no backbone.

But what can he do, what else can he do?

He didn't care, there were only two people in Luoyang City.

Originally, there were three, but she had already died in Invite Beiguan.

The carriage had no place of its own.

Li Yu said anything, she confessed it, she was angry or disdainful.

I am the emperor of Da Wei, and I can't do anything to see Da Wei die, but what I must do is to let her live.

......

......

The fire was raging.

All the way to the end.

There was a man standing in the midst of the fire, and his lotus robe rose and fell with the hot wind.

Yi Xiao stood with a sword, got his wish, and waited for the person he was waiting for. He slowly raised his sword and said, "Cao Zhixuan, this battle is about to end. ”

The man who was only a few feet away heard this, his face was expressionless, and he did not feel pain or remorse.

He had thought about it twenty years ago, if he set foot in Lanling City one day, what kind of scene would he see, and the last thing he wanted to see was Xiao Wang, as his opponent, or Xiao Wang's descendants, crying bitterly in front of him and regretting it.

So he faced the biggest failure in the world with extreme blandness.

Yi Xiao said: "Borrow your head in exchange for 300,000 people in Luoyang City not to die, you ...... Would you like to?"

Qi Liang marched, slaughtered the city, and lost his life.

It's for deterrence, but it's also a kind of cruelty.

The man stared at Yi Xiao's eyes, and he said word by word: "The people in Luoyang City don't care..... My wife and son, I want them both to live. ”

Yi Xiao was silent for a long time, he stood in the middle of the fire, and said: "They can live, but in this life...... You can only live in the South China Sea Island, and you can't go out for a single step. ”

Cao Zhixuan took a deep breath.

In his mind, the woman's voice came to mind.

The sky and rain in Wind Court City.

The fire of that year, the ups and downs of 20 years.

But only the last sentence poked into the bottom of my heart.

Cao Zhixuan...... Let's not fight, shall we?"

The tip of Cao Zhixuan's nose was sour, he looked at Yi Xiao, and spit out a word with a smile.

"Good. ”