Gu Qingci

With pain in the temple, I couldn't bear to take a step forward and said: "Emperor, you don't take me seriously and take my life as a bet. I admit it. It's just a broken life. The king and minister have to die; but you Suspicion of me never stops, again and again, it is Sha Yu and Nanman; you hide my sister and me, imprison my master first, force him to disappear from this dunya, and Dongshan is not happy. You let my sister Yang Zhi go to prison for more than a year, causing her to suffer from unbearable pain in her limbs, and you plotted against my best friend Yan Xi, and finally kicked her out of the capital. They had to find some high-sounding reasons to resign and leave. Sha Yu wanted to take me out of this man-eating cage. You cried and begged me to stay, and I stayed—in exchange for you treating me like this? Liu Yueying, you Does your conscience not hurt, or do you have no conscience at all, no heart?!"

She stretched out her hand and pointed at me fiercely, her chest heaving became more and more intense, but she couldn't say a word.

The pot is broken, she will treat me well in the future, in short, I will no longer have any relationship with her, any entanglements, any feelings.Either go or die, but that's it, I have seen her Liu Yueying's volleying prosperity, my long-cherished wish has been fulfilled, and I can die in peace.

"Yang Li, have you lost your mind and gone crazy? How dare you talk to me like this! There must be a limit to what you say and what you want to do! You have never heard these bastard words mentioned before, so it turns out that you are—that's what you think?" Liu Yueying My face turned red and white when I was angry.

"I really lost my mind and went crazy. Otherwise, how could I miss you for so long, and finally realize what kind of person you are--I really regret it! You, who are so vicious and unintentional, don't know what kind of person you are!" It's worth my half-divided attention. It's your own fault at this point! From now on, you will follow your own way, and I will follow my single-plank bridge, so stop torturing each other, just stop here, and don't need to worry about it anymore."

Liu Yueying was really dizzy with anger, Jingui's usually meticulous brain must be muddled.Her legs were a little weak, and she supported the table next to her without saying a word.

The already dull atmosphere became even more oppressive, and the withered petals in my heart fell off one by one, leaving only ugly branches waiting to rot into ashes.

"Little worry," she finally spoke, her voice was so soft that she couldn't even hear it clearly if she didn't listen carefully.

"You finally spoke the truth today, didn't you? I thought you had accepted those things in the past, or silently forgiven them, but I didn't expect you to hold them in your heart all the time, and you actually had... such a view on those things " She turned her head and looked straight into my eyes: "It's been ten years, haven't you... never accepted me?" She asked very slowly, almost jumping out every word.

It seemed that the bull's head was wrong, and I was stunned for a moment, but I seemed to understand what she meant.

"Hehe, Yang Li has always admired you, loved you, and was willing to dedicate his whole life to you, to Daxing, and to assist you in achieving great achievements-but, not now. You are right, those are my true words, I don't want to bear it anymore, and I don't need to bear it anymore."

"You..." She became even more depressed when she heard my answer, and her sharp eyes lost their sharpness.

I wanted to be angry with her, making her tremble all over with anger, unable to stand up, the weight was about one-tenth of the pain in my heart, so I continued: "Your Majesty, everything I do is for you, including Those - skin relatives. I am willing to be your subject, minister or servant. I don't care about those titles and status, and I am willing to do anything for Your Majesty. That's why I look very stupid. I was tortured so much by you using deception for many years."

Liu Yueying looked at me in disbelief, and the arm supporting the table began to shake.

"You say everything is for me, but this is not love, is it?" She finally tore the last decency between us. "Being close to me, sharing a table with me, these things are of the same nature as assisting me. For you, there is no difference."

She cried, the waves were shining, and the tears fell like broken pearls.

This is the first time in ten years that I shed tears.Round tears gushed out of her eyes, slowly flowed down her beautiful face, gathered at the chin, and then hit the ground.

One drop, two drops, countless drops...

When Liu Yueying cried at me, I was stunned.In two lifetimes and decades, the sweet-scented osmanthus tree behind the palace bloomed and thanked and bloomed again. I never thought that Emperor Lingkong would cry because of me—it came too late, too late.

Kunyu was smashed into slag by the autumn frost, and the water from Grain Rain dripped away yesterday, and there is no more emotion between us.

I looked at her as if I were looking at someone I had never met before.The dull pain in my heart whipped my soul one after another, and made me realize without stopping that she, Liu Yueying, was not the silhouette in the ice coffin, not the emperor of Daxing through the ages, not the ancient person I had longed for, nor was she whom I admired and worshiped gods.

She is just a mortal with flesh and blood, standing in front of me with warmth and heat.

Retting Pearl Jinyan is a short-lived illusion, but because of my obsession, it gives birth to a long-lasting illusion.After washing away the lead, it was dilapidated and nothing more than dust.

"My humble minister, please resign. If you do this, both of you and me..."

"Enough!" Liu Yueying withdrew all the fragility and softness on her face, her eyes suddenly shrank, "I see." Her tone suddenly cooled down, the coldness I was familiar with.

That's right, such cold-bloodedness is her true face of treating everyone equally.

Liu Yueying raised the corners of her mouth slightly, her bloodthirsty smile almost engulfed me, her beautiful lips spat out cruel words: "Northern Qiang has retreated, and the remnants of the Southern Barbarians are nothing to fear. I have ordered General Nangong to lead the army on a certain day, and Yang Aiqing as the military advisor Go south with the army."

I knelt down slowly, bowed my head and kowtowed: "My minister, obey the order."

"By the way, if the remnants of the Southern Barbarians are breached, you will take care of them for me." She moved halfway to the top of the soft collapse, not salty: "I have allowed you to be an official of the Southern County in advance. If the remnants are destroyed by then, you There is no need to return to Beijing to report on my duties." I fell on the ground, and all I could see was the edge of her bright red dragon robe.

"Wei Chen thanked Long En." He bit his lip and said these words, nails deeply embedded in the palm of his hand.

"Okay. Lord Yang, kneel down." The tone was as flat as saying that the weather is really nice today.

The most heartless person, the most sad person.

I don't know how I got out of the palace, I just feel that everything around me is in a trance and phantom.Let's leave, this is liberation, right?Torn apart from her completely and completely, forcibly dug out and smashed the things that I have been obsessed with in my two lifetimes, and I will no longer be contaminated with half illusions.

I let out a long breath from my chest and through my nasal cavity, and I finally got rid of this endless sea of ​​suffering, and I never saw the person I grieved and hated again.It’s just that I know in my heart that the things I discarded make my soul incomplete, and I am no longer qualified to talk about liking and love.

Sad for the rest of my life without joy, sorrowful in the mountains and lands.

"Northern Qiang and Southern Barbarians were repelled by the ancestors, the great unification of the Daxing territory was opened up by the ancestors, the vassal kings in various places were suppressed by the ancestors, the stretches of granaries were built by the ancestors, and the canals running through the north and south were dug by the ancestors Yes, the current currency was recast by the ancestors.”——This is what I said many years ago, and it seems a little funny now after a long time.It turns out that I have a lot of credit for the heavy things in it.

At the beginning of May, the army set off, and I followed General Nangong as a military adviser.

Since the farewell that day, I really haven't seen Liu Yueying again.Sheng Jia did not come, she did not personally practice for the army.

For half of the life duckweed died with the water, and the famous flowers were buried in a cold rain overnight.

==

On a night in May, the night breeze was still cool, and the exotic flowers and plants in the field were deeply covered and hidden in the darkness.

Mu Diezhi changed Yan Xi's dressing in the room, and Yang Zhi helped.

In another room, Sha Yu was meditating quietly by herself.

There was no wind in the room, but the flame of the candle suddenly trembled three times. This scene seemed familiar.

Sha Yu slowly opened his eyes, and there was a trace of red light in his eyes, which was inexplicably coquettish under the reflection of the candlelight.She stretched out her hand expressionlessly, pinched her fingers, frowned quickly, and then moved outside the room and looked up at the sky the next moment.

The stars in the sky once again shone with strange light.

"The emperor's star is strong, the subject's star is weak, and the universe is returning to its place, something bad is going on!" Sha Yu's pupils shrank suddenly, and without a word of greeting, he flew to the south.

======================

The news of Lord Yanglu's death was reported to the capital by Yuxi.

It was the end of summer in the 63rd year of the Daxing Dynasty. The lotus had passed its peak and was half-withered, and the cicadas were too lazy to sing.

Cleaning up the remnants of the Nanman went very smoothly, and General Nangong led the troops to force those who were not in the right position to retreat steadily.It's just that the marching speed is a bit slow because of the dangerous terrain.

The emperor was in court that day, discussing with his ministers how to deal with the conquered land.Nanman is about to be all in the bag, Daxing is going to realize the real unification of Yan and Huang, and the Daxing Dynasty will also be renamed the Daxing Dynasty, all of which need to be prepared.

Originally, the court was calm, but because the emperor was in a good mood, everything was relaxed and at ease, and the ministers were not as tense as usual.

Suddenly there was thunder on the flat ground, and the troops going south rushed eight hundred miles, "Report--" came from a long distance outside the Jinluan Hall.All the officials were shocked.

Yuxi was the highest rank among the urgent letters, without going through layers of reports from the regular attendants, the soldier rode directly into the palace from outside the pass and ran into the Golden Luan Hall.Panting, he knelt in the middle of the Golden Luan Hall, holding the urgent letter in both hands.The emperor's rare good mood was affected, and he seemed a little unhappy.She frowned, but still raised her hand for the attendant to present.

"Read it directly." The emperor propped his head and said to the attendant.The attendant nodded, opened the urgent report, his face changed suddenly, and he turned to the queen and said, "Your Majesty, this..."

"Read!" The queen propped her head up and looked forward, a little impatient.

"Yes." Chang Shi cleared his throat and said in a loud voice, "Nanjun urgent report: on August [-], the eldest son of Nangong was captured by barbarians; In the valley, the barbarian wizard managed to dispel the dark clouds, and the fire raged for two days, and the army was killed in the flames."

The hall was surprisingly quiet for an instant.The ministers were chilling and riding horses, without a single sound, they could faintly hear the tired voice of "I got it, I got it" outside the hall.

After being quiet for an unknown amount of time, the emperor sat up straight, and turned his eyes to the attendant blankly: "What did you say? Who died in the sea of ​​flames?"

Chang Shi knelt down on the ground and said word by word: "Your Majesty, it is Lord Yang Liyang."

[Borrowed from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the name of the Battle of the Upper Valley. 】