Princess Caifeng Gu Luan was dripping with blood in her heart, carrying Xiao Lingjin on her back, and it took most of the night to travel less than twenty miles in the wilderness full of thorns and dead grass. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although she did not lose her way, she did not dare to rashly embark on the road to the capital, so she could only go east first, and then turn south. In this way, by dawn, there was still a distance of nearly thirty miles from the capital.

Overnight, his clothes had already been scratched by thorns, and his face, neck, ankles and wrists were full of lacerations.

Finally, I dared to hide under the shelter not far from the official road, and sat down to rest for a while. Gu Luan untied his back, was wrapped in a thin quilt, and his little nephew Gu Lingjin, who had never moved, saw that he was still asleep and did not wake up, so he was relieved.

Looking back at the direction of Huguo Temple, I could only vaguely see a few faint wisps of green smoke. After a night of burning, I don't know that Huguo Temple has long been razed to the ground. What made Gu Luan wonder was why there were no officers and soldiers on the official road who came to put out the fire or rescue them?

"Aunt Huang, I want my mother. ”

Hearing the confused cry of Xiao Lingjin in his arms, Gu Luan hurriedly comforted:

"Ling Jin is the most well-behaved, aunt will take you to find your mother. ”

Wrapped Xiao Lingjin again, tied it to his back as it was, and when he stood up, he suddenly found a large number of figures on the official road from the direction of the capital in the distance. Even, Gu Luan heard a faint cry.

Clearly not officers and soldiers, looks more like refugees.

Gu Luan couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, hurriedly walked to the side of the official road, waited until the ordinary people who seemed to be refugees approached, grabbed a woman who looked like a sister-in-law, and after inquiring, the whole person almost fainted, and squatted on the side of the official road for a while, unable to stand up again.

The capital has been breached, the palace has been breached, what about the father and the queen?

After a long time, Gu Luan was worried that the aunt and nephew were too conspicuous, although the clothes on their bodies had already been scratched by thorns, they still looked very different from ordinary people. Moreover, Xiao Lingjin on her back shouted to find her mother, shouted hunger, and called the emperor's aunt once, worried that someone would find out the identity of her aunt and nephew, so she didn't dare to go north along the official road with the fleeing crowd, let alone risk returning to the city, but planned to bypass the north of the city and go to the west of the capital.

In Gu Luan's mind, he naturally regarded Wu Zheng as his only support.

Ning Xiaoqian and Ning Xiaokun, the two sisters who came out of the city from the south city gate in the middle of the night, although they were at night, although their physical strength was greatly overdrawn, it still took less than half an hour to rush to the deep valley behind the mountain where Woyun Temple was located twenty miles west of the city.

It's just that, as far as the eye can see, where is there still the greenhouse that can grow vegetables in the cold winter, and where is the fence yard. All you can see is ashes and rubble.

"Sister?!"

Ning Xiaokun threw himself into Ning Xiaoqian's arms and fainted.

Dragging his tired body, barely half-dragging and half-hugging, he continued to walk four or five miles deep into the valley with Ning Xiaokun who had passed out, and then chose a forest full of dead leaves to get into.

Sitting under a big tree, leaning on the trunk, and putting her sister Ning Xiaokun flat on her legs, although Ning Xiaoqian also wanted to close her eyes and sleep for a while, but she didn't dare. Bent down and put the upper body on Ning Xiaokun in his arms to keep each other warm. The tears in Ning Xiaoqian's eyes, like the river that burst its embankment, could no longer be stopped.

Overnight, the Ning Mansion was gone.

Grandma is gone, my mother is gone, my aunt is gone.

Grandpa is gone.

Father, uncle, Tianjue's elder brother, and the two elder brothers Tianyu and Tianliang in Bingzhou Jiedu Mansion, Ning Xiaoqian didn't dare to think about their situation, she really didn't dare to think about it.

Originally, on the way here, my heart was still full of hope. However, not only did he not see Xiao Pengju, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, but he also did not see Wu Zheng, who should not have woken up yet, and even the small courtyard of the fence was razed to the ground like Ning Mansion.

Letting the tears flow freely, Ning Xiaoqian thought like this alone, I don't know how long it took, I felt my sister in my arms move.

"Xiao Kun?"

"Sister, let's go to the master, and then go directly to Yandang Mountain. ”

Is there anything else to do?

Ning Xiaoqian nodded and said:

"Why don't you go back to the city first and have a look before you leave. ”

Before dawn, the sisters returned to the west gate of the capital, and although the gate was wide open, hundreds of soldiers stood there, interrogating the identities of passers-by one and their origins.

Of course, I didn't dare to go over and take risks, so I turned south and went to the south gate to see that it was the same as the west gate. The sisters' hearts were completely cold. The only hope that my father was still alive was completely shattered. On the side of the official road far from the city gate, they inquired about a few refugees who had escaped from the city, and the sisters no longer thought about it. Knowing that the Ning family is full of deep hatred, they can only revenge it.

It's just where did Wu Zheng go?

How is he now, has he woken up?

With Xiao Pengju, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, and people from Mofu, Ning Xiaoqian and Ning Xiaokun didn't believe that Wu Zheng would encounter misfortune, and they didn't want to believe it.

Although neither of them spoke, the sisters had the same problem in their hearts.

"Sister, let's not go along the official road. There are refugees everywhere, and you may encounter soldiers who are interrogating you at any time. Besides, we don't have any money on us, so let's take the wild road instead, and when we are hungry, we can catch some game to satisfy our hunger. ”

"Well, it's okay, let's go wild. ”

In fact, there are not a few people who have such thoughts, after all, it is impossible for the refugees who fled to bring much silver taels and food in a hurry, so when the sisters walked down the official road into the wilderness, they would encounter refugees from time to time, until they walked out for two days and two nights, with the swift skills of the sisters, they could be regarded as leaving behind a large number of refugees from the capital. It's just that I didn't go far before I met refugees from the direction of Jizhou.

Since last autumn, Princess Caifeng was accompanied by Jinling, escorted by Wu Zheng back to the capital and returned to the house, which was the first time the sisters went far away. As far as the eye can see, it is no longer the level of the scene seen at that time. There are refugees everywhere, and new graves are everywhere. The towns and cities they passed through were all in a tragic state of war and chaos.

Even the occasional passing, a few small mountain villages hidden deep in the mountains were not spared. It was not attacked by rebels, but ransacked by refugees fleeing the famine.

Gradually, the former Prime Minister Jia Yi colluded with the Black Liao State, colluded with the great eunuch Hu Jing, and secretly raised the dead soldiers in the rivers and lakes to rebel. On the fourth day after the change in the capital, the news came that Jia Yi was enthroned as emperor in the capital, and the country name was changed to "Dashang", the year name was "Jingchun", and this year was "the first year of Jingchun".

"Sister, what about them, what about those princes, grandsons and princesses?"

Ning Xiaoqian shook her head, although she was not satisfied with being married by the emperor to the fifth prince Gu Keng, it did not mean that Ning Xiaoqian was indifferent to the life and death of Gu Keng and other princes. It's just that I haven't heard from those princes and grandsons from beginning to end.

"Alas, there are no eggs under the nest. Sister, let's hurry up. (To be continued.) )