Rong Lan

Colder than frozen fingers is the heart.

It's already March, and the spring in northern Xinjiang is far from here. The Ming Mountain is towering and majestic, and everything you can see is covered with white snow.

Some soldiers shouted: "There are people under the snow here!"

The heavy wings rushed forward, hoping to fail again and again, and the heart fell into a colder valley each time.

Unfamiliar faces.no!None!

Every day, dead people were dug out from under the snow, but there was no Rong Lan.

"Lan'er! Where are you?! Lan'er! Answer me!" Chong Yi knelt down in the boundless snow and shouted.

It's impossible for Lan'er not to wait for him here, why can't she find him? !

Heavy Wing pawed at the thick snow, and could no longer feel anything other than a cold heart.

Chong Die held on to Chong Yi's blue-purple hand, and dragged him up: "Brother Huang, you are still seriously ill, and you have been looking for more than ten days like this. Wait for Brother Huang to deal with it, Brother Huang and Xiaodie go back to Beijing!"

"Don't hinder me!" Chong Yi pushed his sister away and knelt in the snow again: "Lan'er is afraid of the cold, I want to find him and bring him back to Beijing together!"

Chongdie didn't know how to persuade her. If it wasn't for the extreme pain after losing, her imperial brother always put the country first. How could he throw all the burden of the court to the ten-year-old when Da Zhou encountered a strong enemy and the war was not peaceful? The crown prince, he just stayed on the Mingshan Mountain and desperately searched for his lover's body, but he couldn't find it everywhere, and he was at a loss like a child.

Zhong Die didn't dare to say that because of the majesty of Mingshan and the thick snow on the top of the mountain, finding a corpse that was buried by heavy snow more than two years ago here is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the hope is slim.

"Master, there are soldiers looking for Mr. Rong. As soon as there is news, the subordinates will notify you immediately. You can go back to Beijing with the princess!" Mo Xuan persuaded, feeling very uncomfortable. It's not that he died without a body, and his master won't be worried about it.

"Brother Huang, what Mo Xuan said..."

Chong Yi knelt in the snow, and gradually couldn't hear the words of Chong Die and Mo Xuan clearly. What echoed in his ears was Mu Shaolan's vicious taunt and roar like a curse.

"He doesn't even have a tombstone to be worshiped on the Qingming Festival. What a miserable end!"

"He's already dead!!! He's dead!!! He's so dead that there's not even a body left!!!"

Magnificent and bright red flowers bloomed on the snow, and the pure white world fell into darkness in an instant!

"Brother Emperor!"

"master!"

"Hurry up and tell the doctor!"

With several exclamations, Zhong Yi plunged headlong into the snow.

In the darkness, he didn't have any more dreams. He desperately recalled the past with Lan'er, but his mind was blank. The most extreme miss was that he couldn't think of anything anymore. The void made him infinitely fearful and sad. But he couldn't scream, couldn't cry.

Lan'er left, so thoroughly and cleanly.

He also wants to sleep forever in Mingshan, to be with him forever.

"You are the emperor of the Great Zhou!"

"Countless government affairs are waiting for the emperor to deal with!"

You are the emperor!

emperor!

Ah!But he is the emperor...

He is in shackles, struggling to walk, he has indulged himself to this extent, he can live without love, can be in pain, can live and die, but the only thing he can't - life and death go hand in hand.

The emperor vomited blood and fainted in Mingshan. After waking up that night, his condition improved rapidly, and he returned to Beijing quickly the next day.

For several months after the emperor left, soldiers were still everywhere on Mount Ming, and the people in the villages below the mountain couldn't help talking about it.

"There are countless people who come to Mingshan to search for the lotus every year. This year, the government sent people to search for it so persistently. I don't know which royal family member fell seriously ill."

"I heard that you are not looking for Minglian, but someone. Many corpses were dug up under the snow!"

"Many relatives and friends who disappeared in Mingshan went to identify the corpses after hearing the news. If you say that the government also did a good deed by the way."

"This person, after death, he still has to be buried in the ground for peace, and someone will pay homage to the grave every year. This is indeed accumulating virtue!"

The corpses covered in snow and ice always kept the appearance of the deceased. Countless people reunited with relatives and friends for a long time after death, were buried in the ground, and new graves were built. Rong Lan has never been heard from.

The emperor, who had been ill for nearly a month, recovered and returned to court.

Hundreds of officials in the court were excited, Chong Yidang issued two imperial decrees, the first one: on the day of the Spring Festival, ask the King of the South again;

The emperor suddenly wanted the imperial pen to retry the Nancao illicit salt case, and the court was shocked!

After two years, Xu Zhongbo and Cheng He met again in front of the unnamed tombstone in the suburbs of Beijing.

The next day, both of them knelt in the Hall of Qinzheng to plead guilty to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this minister is guilty!"

Xu Zhongbo, who was still the prime minister at the time, was stopped by the queen mother before he entered the admonition, and then advised Cheng He not to play the grievances about Rong Shangshu, and only brought all the officials who slipped through the net mentioned in the book to justice.As the head of a hundred officials, he made such an act of devoid of conscience and disregarding his colleagues. At that time, he proposed to resign because he could no longer face the emperor, and he could not forgive his sin and cowardice.

The emperor asked him to stay, and for two years, he taught the prince carefully, only wishing to atone for his sins, and at the same time hoped that the prince Chengzhi could learn the good strategy of governing the country written by Rong Shangshu, so that his youthful talent and loyalty to the country would not be in vain.

Cheng He has supported the household department for Dazhou for two years, and he feels more and more indebted and grateful to Rong Lan. Although the two have only known each other for a few months, Rong Lan talked about the national policy to him at that time, regardless of local governance or central governance. From the population to the land, from the macro to the micro, he has benefited a lot with emotion. He is always proud of what he has achieved in the past two years inspired by this, and he also misses his dear friend who has passed away.

The plea of ​​Xu Zhongbo and Cheng He was expected by Chong Yi, and fortunately the two of them took the initiative to plead guilty, otherwise, even if they were the pillars of the Great Zhou, and they were more honest and diligent, Chong Yi might not be able to bear it for the sake of Da Zhou. Murderous rage.

Chong Yi said in a deep voice: "If you know you are guilty, you will redeem your crime! Although some people have written down the evidence and clues, most of the evidence in the early years has been destroyed, and it is not easy to collect. Xu Taifu is old, and this burden will be handed over to Cheng Shangshu. Assistant Manager Fu, do you two have any objections?"

Xu Zhongbo and Cheng He kowtowed together: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me! I will do my best to live up to your Majesty's trust!"

On the other side, Ying Yi failed to rescue Mu Shaolan, and half of his shadow was lost again. Nan Wang was imprisoned in the palace by the emperor's decree, making rescue even more difficult.

Seeing that King Nan was about to be beheaded again, Rong Xuan refused to withdraw his troops, not caring about Mu Shaolan's life or death at all.

In the Miao army's barracks, the concubine Wu Ziyun, who was saved from being captured because of her long residence in Miaoguan, knelt in front of Rong Xuan: "Are you willing to stop the army and negotiate because you want Ai's family to kneel down?"

Rong Xuan helped Wu Ziyun up with a blank face: "The concubine has a noble status, Rong Xuan can't stand the concubine kneeling like this."

Wu Ziyun knelt on the ground and refused to get up: "Rong Xuan, if you want to hate, you hate the Ai family, I beg you, the Ai family only has Shaolan as its son!"

Rong Xuan's gaze was even colder. Back then, if he hadn't been drugged by Mu Shaolan, how could he have been "seriously injured and comatose" and unable to go to Hongzhou to save Xiaolan and come back, and finally let Xiaolan die in Mingshan, but even...

Rong Xuan still doesn't know that Mu Shaolan replaced Menghui quietly. Rong Lan "died" when he was in the capital, and even Wu Ziyun didn't know that the always submissive youngest son would plan to poison his elder brother.

Rong Xuan supported Wu Ziyun with all his strength, and asked softly, "Isn't Xiaolan the son of the concubine? At that time, Xiaolan was imprisoned by Chong Yi, and the concubine didn't ask anyone."

Wu Ziyun's eyes were ashamed: "It's the Ai family who is sorry for him... But the Ai family has already lost a son, we can't even lose Shaolan!"

Rong Xuan remained unmoved: "The reason why Rong Xuan is still alive is to avenge his father and Xiao Lan. As for the rest, Rong Xuan is helpless."

That year when Mu Shaolan suddenly asked Rong Xuan to kiss him, it was only then that Rong Xuan realized that the person whose temperament had changed drastically was not his Xiao Lan at all. People don't have that kind of affection for his big brother, let alone ask themselves to kiss him.

It has to be said that although Mu Shaolan never pretended to be Rong Lan's behavior, and even disdained to let Rong Xuan call himself "Xiao Lan" to be completely reduced to a substitute, all his anger, swearing, voice and expression could be imitated. It was difficult for Rong Lan himself to tell the truth from the false, so that Rong Xuan spent several months with him day and night before realizing that his younger brother had already been outsourced.

In Wu Ziyun's secluded meditation room, when Rong Xuan saw the enshrined tablet in the alcove, the thing he feared most still happened.

Even Rong Shen didn't know that Wu Ziyun gave birth to two sons, and Rong Xuan, as a junior, had no way of knowing it. That day when Wu Ziyun confessed to him, he understood so many problems that he couldn't figure out before. Why Wu Ziyun Yun didn't support Xiaolan, why did Wu Ziyun, the queen of Mu Shaolan, not want to face her son.

Suddenly a soldier reported outside the tent: "General Rong, a spy has just been caught!"

"En, I see." Rong Xuan waved his hand and said to Wu Ziyun: "Rong Xuan still has military affairs to deal with, please move the concubine and go back to the residence in the city to rest."

Rong Xuan arranged for soldiers to send Wu Ziyun away, and when he returned to the tent, the spies had already been taken into the tent.

"General, this person is carrying a book with strange symbols on it. It is probably for communication purposes. General, please have a look!"

Rong Xuan raised his hand to take it, opened the book and only glanced at it, his expression was shocked!The familiar handwriting in the book is Xiao Lan!And the handwriting is brand new, it should have been written recently, so...Xiao Lan is still alive? !

For a moment, Rong Xuan's thoughts turned back and forth, and he held the book in his hands and said in a deep voice, "You all stand down! This general has something to interrogate alone!"

"Yes!"

When everyone exited the camp, Rong Xuan walked up to the "spies" excitedly: "I ask you, where did you get this book?! You only carry this thing with you, and if you are captured without resistance, you will not be a spy, but The person who wrote this book sent you to find General Ben?!"