a pillow in autumn

Taishiling, subordinate to Taichang, is in charge of astronomy, calendar, and history writing.

The Peng Mansion is in the west of the Twelve Squares of the Imperial City, more than ten miles away from Prince Rui's Mansion. Outside the mansion is a row of autumn kapoks. A good place to get quiet.

The clouds in the sky were thick and colorful, covering the only little sunlight left.The newly elected guards of Prince Rui's mansion were waiting beside the dismounting stone, Zhou Mubai walked out from the mansion, pursed his lips and got on his horse, and the group galloped towards Taishi Lingpeng's mansion.

Before leaving Weiming Street, a slightly shrill voice came through the wind, "Your Highness!! Your Highness!!!"

Zhou Mubai stopped his horse, turned around and saw Xiao Guozi riding a pony pony from the direction of the palace, before he arrived, he said anxiously: "His Royal Highness, the princess has been found!"

"Really?!" She rode her horse and turned around, her eyes lit up, "Where is the princess now?"

"At Hidden Sword Peak!" Xiao Guozi yelled anxiously before he could get off his horse, "Deputy Shen Jun sent someone to deliver a message to His Highness, and he and Lord Shen Lan rushed there first."

"Zang Jianfeng?" Zhou Mubai's heart shuddered, his brows were already wrinkled.

Zangjianfeng is located in the north of the imperial city, from the city gate to the outskirts of the forest, the mountains are quiet, and the valleys and forests are deep.

It is rumored that not many years ago, a great general was ordered to go to war. The day before the army started, the general made an appointment with his wife, and he would return triumphantly within three years.The general's wife personally put on the armor for the general, sent him on a horse, and led the army out from the north gate.From then on, she often came to a high mountain in the forest suburb of Beimen, looking at the distance, hoping for her beloved.

Most of the things in the world are not as expected.

Three years passed with a flick of a finger, and the army returned triumphantly. However, the one who came to the general's mansion was the deputy general holding the general's sword in both hands.He said that the general had already been shrouded in horse leather and died in battle.

Storytellers in the capital often let out a long sigh when they tell the story here.It is said that when the general's wife took the sword, her eyes turned red immediately, but she didn't shed a single tear.She stroked the rusted and bloody lines on the sword, but Yuyu told the descendants that when she died, she must be buried with the sword.

After a few days, she really disappeared.The family looked around, and finally thought of the mountain where she often kept watch over him.I heard that that day was also as severe as this time. When they found her, she was still holding his saber, leaning against a green pine and cypress, looking at the direction where the general led the army.

Since she can't wait for him back, she will take his last thread and go to that life to accompany him.

She and his sword were buried among the green mountains.

That mountain is Hidden Sword Peak.

When the group of people came out of the city gate, the clouds in the sky were already stained like heavy ink, and soon it rained heavily, hitting people's faces head-on, excruciatingly painful.

Zhou Mubai was running at the forefront, the bodyguards were a few horses behind, protecting left and right, and turned around a section of muddy mountain road.

The green field on both sides of the mountain road is vast, and the dark red purple kite grass is stretched in the thick fog, and the stars are hard to see. Such a long road seems to herald the road of no return on the other side.

Zhou Mubai bit his lip, and tried his best to shake this absurd thought out of his mind. Suddenly, the horse neighed and knelt down, and she was thrown out without warning.

"Your Highness!!" Several personal guards reacted quickly, turning the horse's head in the heavy rain, barely avoiding one person and one horse on the ground, ran a few steps, and rode the horse back.

"Your Highness!" A personal guard got off his horse and ran over to help him.

Zhou Mubai sat on his knees in the rain for a while, and then barely stood up with the arms of the guards, his fine clothes were already stained with mud.She raised her head, the corners of her eyes were a little hot, the pouring rain was pouring on her body, but it kept cooling into her heart.

Just like that, she let herself vent for a few breaths, wiped off the rain on her face, walked to the side of the guard's horse, turned on her back, and continued to run towards Hidden Sword Peak.

Someone built a small gazebo under Hidden Sword Peak. At this time, a few horses were tied outside the pavilion, and two servants were sitting inside the pavilion.

When Prince Rui's mansion and his party arrived at the foot of the peak, the two brothers of the Shen family had already gone up the mountain for a long time, and they left two young servants to report to them.Zhou Mubai stood in the pavilion and listened to a few words, then walked up the mountain path.

"Your Highness." A personal guard stepped forward and stopped him: "The mountain road is steep, and there is no penetration. With such a heavy rain, I am afraid that there will be danger on the way. How about..." He wiped the raindrops on his face: " Your Highness will wait in this pavilion for a while, and I will go to the mountain to welcome the princess down."

"The lonely king will go by himself." She pushed his hand away, looking at the rain-like forest, her eyes were as hot as ice, "I'll go by myself, and bring her back."

There is no special scenery in Zangjian Peak. As the guard said, the mountain road is steep and muddy when it rains. Fortunately, the grass and leaves along the way are lush and slippery.Zhou Mubai climbed up with one foot deep and the other shallow, only thinking about the person he wanted to find.

After walking for more than half an hour, the heavy rain gradually stopped, and several unknown flower trees shone in the winter. A colorful rainbow light hung on the edge of the mountain forest not far away, as if connecting the world with life. die.

"Your Highness." A familiar voice called her.

She stood still and looked up, and saw Shen Lan standing at the next corner of the mountain road.

"Your Highness." He came over a few steps, seeing her in a state of distress, he couldn't help but pause, but seeing the anxiety and panic in her eyes, he hurriedly replied, "It's not the princess."

Zhou Mubai froze for a moment.

This news is the misfortune among the great fortunes, but it is also the great auspiciousness among the misfortunes.

Shen Youtang also turned out from behind the mountain wall, Zhou Mu was stunned for a while, and looked up at the top of the mountain not far away.Without asking anything, she raised her foot and climbed up again.

"Your Highness..." Shen Lan called softly from behind, as if she hadn't heard it, Shen Youtang tugged at the corner of Shen Lan's clothes, looked worried, and shook his head.

The seven-color rainbow in the distance has somewhat dissipated, and the emerald green forest leaves are swaying between the mountains and fields, and the cold wind passes by like waves.

Zhou Mubai stood alone on the top of the mountain, looking far away, or maybe she didn't look at anything, just thinking about the person in her heart.

For a long time, she raised her voice and screamed with all her strength: "Shen—Xian—Xun—"

Surrounded by mountains, layers upon layers of empty valley echoes, sinking—slim—shen—shen—slim—shen—shen—shen—shen—shen—

"Shen—Xian—Xun—" she yelled again, her voice full of suppressed tears.

It's still the echoes all over the mountains and plains, and it's still the sound of crying.

You said that you want to grow old with me.

In her heart, thousands of years and valleys are silently echoing... what you said...

When Zhou Mubai calmed down, he suddenly felt that it was very cold in the mountains. They had been rushing all the way, their clothes were already soaked by the heavy rain.

A group of people went down the mountain from the original road, and Shen Lan explained in a gentle voice. The brothers under him did indeed see a woman with impaired eyesight who came to Hidden Sword Peak with a girl. Listening to the body description, both he and Shen Youtang guessed It was the princess, so she immediately sent someone to report to the palace, and was afraid that something might happen in this barren mountain, so she ran here first.

It hadn't rained yet when I came to the mountain, and in the middle of the mountain, I met a woman in plain clothes, with white gauze covering her eyes, and a girl with her, but it was not Shen Xianxun.

Shen Lan and Shen Youtang stared blankly for a while, feeling really disappointed in their hearts, but there was nothing they could do.

The woman was a little surprised when she heard someone nearby.She saluted them briefly, took the girl, and went down the mountain path on the other side.

Zhou Mubai nodded, calmed down, and looked at the sky again.Although it is not dark yet, it is already the end of the application period, it must be too late to go to Peng's residence today.

"Your Highness." After reaching the foot of the mountain, Shen Lan whispered in her ear: "The lady we met earlier was this lady."

Zhou Mubai followed his gaze, and there were indeed two women standing in the pavilion, one dressed as a woman in her twenties, and the other accompanying her in her teens, dressed as a maid.

The woman's appearance was not very outstanding, her eyes were covered with a strand of white gauze, the white gauze danced lightly in the breeze, messing up her hair, the woman held the servant girl's arm and rolled her temples with one hand.

Mu Bai looked at it, his eyes gradually became sour.She pondered and walked out of the court, saluted the woman in the pavilion, exchanged a few words, and finally asked: "My boy heard that there are very few tourists visiting the hidden sword peak, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the heavy rain is staggering. Going up the mountain at this time?"

The woman in plain clothes showed a hesitant look on her face after hearing the question.Mu Bai was about to say that he was abrupt, but the woman sighed lightly, and said slowly: "A gentleman is unwilling to hide it when he asks."

The mottled bluestone steps at the foot of the pavilion are soaked with traces of rain, and the sun is already westward, casting dim shadows under the thick shade.

The husband of the woman in plain clothes is a brave soldier in Ruiguo. When he was young, he went out with the general to fight everywhere. He is loyal and strong-tempered.By the time he reached thirty, his military achievements had gradually accumulated, and he was appreciated by the general, and he was gradually promoted to Li Youmu's deputy lieutenant.

"That day when he came back, he told me that the Tu people were wildly different, and that they were deceiving the people of Rui. He wanted to go to the west with the general to pacify the Quartet. He was always on the battlefield, and he was rarely at home for so many days a year, but that day On the [-]st, before he left, he asked me to take good care of the family. He said that within three years, within three years, he would return triumphantly. I was suddenly very scared, afraid of the three-year agreement. I thought of Zang Jianfeng, and I was afraid of saying It will become a prophecy." The woman in plain clothes smiled softly as she spoke, and the smile was sad and graceful: "Three years later, he did not come back. It was also raining like this that day. Someone from the army sent a The armor he once wore, they told me, died in a foreign land like the general on this mountain."

"lady……"

"So many people went to the four fields, and so many people never came back. When I married him, I knew that maybe this day would come. I'm just sad that he can no longer serve his mother at home, no longer Not being able to watch our child grow up, I'm just sad that his soul is in a foreign land... His bones are not returned..."

"Ma'am, may I ask what your husband's name is...?"

"The late husband's surname is Qiu, and his name is Shude."

The clouds had just dissipated, and the sky was getting darker. Standing outside the pavilion, Mu Bai watched the woman in plain clothes and the little maid gradually walk away beside the foot of the mountain. A light white gauze.

"Shen Lan."

"The minister is here."

"Tomorrow, I will pay 500 taels of silver in the palace, and send it to the Qiu family on behalf of the lonely king."

"Yes."

"From now on, I will pay a portion of my salary every month, and you will send it on behalf of the lonely king." She looked down at the thin calluses on her hand that had been worn out while riding a horse and practicing swords, and said calmly, "It's just that you don't need to let them know the source. Let’s say it’s the monthly salary paid by the Red Wing Army to Vice General Qiu’s family.”

"……Yes……"

The author has something to say: make up for the chapter that was hacked in the Internet cafe yesterday! !Therefore, if I have time, I will try my best to update another chapter before twelve o'clock tonight.

By the way... don't you guys have too few messages, you can't hide it as soon as the princess hides it. . .

When Mo Fang hugged me tightly, he threw a landmine.

Thank you for your continued support.really appreciate it.