Dingguan City is only a hundred miles away from Yanyunguan Pass. You can start at sunrise and arrive before sunset.

General Tiemu equipped Chu Zhao with a carriage, but Chu Zhao was unwilling to ride in the carriage and insisted on riding a horse.

General Tiemu had no choice but to bundle Iron Hammer and General Xiao into the car, and sent a dozen soldiers to accompany them to supervise Chu Zhao and prevent her from escaping on horseback.

Chu Zhao had no intention of running away at all, but because Xiao Chi's grave was right under Yanyun Pass, he was riding fast all the way, wishing he could grow wings and fly over.

General Timu had never seen such a self-conscious prisoner before, and his eyes widened in shock when he saw her galloping figure.

Does this regent know what a prisoner is?

No wanderer is as eager to return home as she is.

"Why does she seem so looking forward to it?" General Timu couldn't help but ask A'ao.

A'ao could probably guess Chu Zhao's thoughts and pursed his lips in silence.

The king truly showed sincerity to Xiao Chi that is hard to find in the world. He spent 200 years thinking about, searching for, and waiting for Xiao Chi, and never wavered despite the comings and goings of people around him.

Could it be that in the past 200 years, there has never been a better man than Xiao Chi beside her?

Maybe it did happen, but she identified that one person, and the rest of them, no matter how outstanding they were, were nothing but clouds to her.

And why am I not one of them?

As people head west, the sun sets in the west, and the rolling Yanyun Mountains finally come into view.

The towering peaks are a natural barrier that separates the two countries. They are so high that even geese cannot fly over.

The name Yanyunguan also comes from this.

The majestic Yanyunguan Tower is built between two peaks.

Chu Zhao sat on the horse and looked at the weathered city tower under the bright red sunset, feeling filled with emotion.

In 200, she finally stood closest to Xiao Chi again, but the Yanyunguan Pass that Xiao Chi guarded with all his life had fallen into the hands of the Beidi people.

Flags of Beidi were flying everywhere on the city towers, and all the soldiers stationed inside and outside the pass were Beidi soldiers. Even the biting cold wind in the dusk was blowing from the direction of Beidi.

Chu Zhao closed his eyes, and the bloody battle that year seemed to be right in front of him.

In her ears were the sounds of fighting and iron horses, and the words Xiao Chi said to her before she died.

He said: "Azhao, I'm sorry. I said I would protect you for the rest of my life, but I may have to break my promise."

He said: "Ah Zhao, after I die, you will bury me under Yanyun Pass. I cannot protect you alive, but I will protect this territory for you even if I die."

He said: "Ah Zhao, don't be afraid that I will be lonely here. There are mountains and rivers here, and there are compatriots who have died in battles like me for thousands of years. In the future, there will be people who live and work here in peace and contentment, and there will be children without worries." I am running with care, there are cattle and sheep all over the mountains and fields, and maybe there will be shepherdess singing in front of my grave..."

He said: "Azhao, go ahead and create a peaceful and prosperous age for our ideals. I know you can do it. You are the most powerful girl I have ever seen."

A general who spent his whole life in the army, killed countless enemies and stained his shirt with blood, but what he loved until his death was peace.

Chu Zhao closed his eyes, tears slowly seeping out from under his eyelashes and moistening his cheeks.

She dismounted and walked towards the place where Xiao Chi was buried.

Xiao Chi.

Xiao Chi.

I am coming.

I'm here to see you.

I'm here to find you.

General Timu stepped forward and stopped her vigilantly: "Wherever you are going, Beidi's guards are here. Don't try to escape."

"Get out of the way." Chu Zhao glanced at him, his eyes filled with coldness, and Ling Ran's aura exuded from his body.

General Timu shivered for no reason, but he gritted his teeth and refused to give in.

Aao waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to be nervous and not to stop him.

"Anyway, we will rest here tonight, let her walk around, I will follow her."

General Temu became even more worried when he heard this.

Because Chu Zhao had always acted too calmly, the process of convincing Aao was too smooth, and King Jingnan's withdrawal was too clean and tidy. Even the strange couple who were vying to come with them could not do it. It gave him an indescribable weird feeling.

Beidi is not a fairyland on earth, so why don't they have any sense of crisis, and each one of them seems eager to come?

Is there any conspiracy in this?

But there were only four of them including Aao.

What can four people do?

The four people threw it on their grassland in Beidi, not even a grain of dust counted.

General Tiemu couldn't figure out what went wrong. Seeing that Chu Zhao was determined to go up the mountain, he had to order someone to tie up Tie Zhui and General Xiao and take them into custody. He personally led his troops to accompany her and A'ao up the mountain.

"You'd better not play any tricks, otherwise your two followers will have their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into the wild to feed the hawks."

As he spoke, he raised his head and saw an eagle hovering in the sky: "Did you see that the most indispensable thing for us in Beidi is eagles. In winter, when food is scarce, they will eat people without even leaving their skins."

General Xiao trembled, and when he looked up to the sky, he almost laughed when he saw the eagle.

"That eagle is so vicious, Princess, you can't leave us alone. We don't want to be fed to the eagle."

Chu Zhao also looked up, holding back a smile and said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, I won't abandon you."

The setting sun was like blood and the twilight was all around. When Chu Zhao found Xiao Chi's grave on the mountainside, the words on the tombstone could no longer be seen clearly.

But she didn't need to read it carefully to know what was written on it.

On the tomb of General Xiao Chi, these seven words were carved by her herself.

She also wanted to carve it into "the tomb of my husband Xiao Chi", but Xiao Chi died on the battlefield to protect the common people. She also hopes that future generations will pay tribute to him as a hero.

I hope that everyone who passes by his grave, even if they have never heard of his deeds, can know that he is a great hero, not just a husband of a certain woman.

Later, as she wished, every general and soldier stationed at Yanyunguan would come here to pay homage to Xiao Chi. Every year during the Qingming Festival, many people would come to visit his grave.

Countless days and nights passed, and instead of being deserted, his tomb became taller and taller because people often came to add soil and repair it. Every word on the tombstone was wiped clean by people.

But now that this place is occupied by the Beidi people, and the nearby people have all fled elsewhere due to the war, no one comes to clean it anymore, leaving behind thick leaves and dust.

"Xiao Chi!"

Chu Zhao squatted down in front of the tombstone and stroked the uneven fonts on it with trembling fingers. The rough touch was like his face that had been eroded by wind and frost due to years of fighting.

"Xiao Chi, I'm here, I'm here to see you..." She ignored the dust on it, pressed her face against it, and murmured.

In the past, he always liked to rub her face like this. The rough skin and unruly beard made her hurt and itchy.

Every time she disliked him and said he wasn't good enough for her, he would laugh and say that this would be it for the rest of his life, wait until I become a pretty boy to match you in my next life.

"You liar, I've already come back, but you came to me as a pretty boy..." Chu Zhao smiled and patted the stone tablet, patting his broad shoulders as naturally as before.

His shoulders are the safest place in the world, protecting her and thousands of people.

"Xiao Chi, look, the land you protect has fallen, and the people you protect have become homeless. Why don't you come back?"

"Xiao Chi, come back, I'm waiting for you, the people are waiting for you, and Dayan is waiting for you..."

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