I see the snow

When Qin Yi led an army of [-] troops from the outside to meet up, Mu Ziling had already captured the three cities responsible for the supply of food and grass as promised.

But even so, Qin Yi's face was still very ugly when they met.

——Because Mu Ziling slaughtered the city again.

"I remember telling you."

Qin Yi said coldly: "The captives are enough, there is no need to kill them all!"

When the march came, corpses were lined up on both sides of the street along the way, and even the four hooves of the horses were dyed and discolored.

Those distorted and horrific death shapes can be seen at a glance by whose hands.

"It's not the first time I've massacred a city."

However, Mu Ziling also said coldly: "Why are you so surprised?"

"..."

Qin Yi's complexion became terrible, and the attendants at the side saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward to calm down and persuade: "Your Majesty, please calm down...Your Majesty, please calm down."

"Women, children, and common people," Qin Yi said, "You can even slaughter a city?!"

As a result, Mu Ziling smiled and said very calmly, "What are you worried about, Your Majesty?"

"—In the end, this crime was made by me, and I will go to hell alone. I will never drag the king down, so you can rest assured."

"...Stop saying a few words, Mr. Mu...!"

The entourage was about to cry, and the left and right were inhumane: "In any case, the person who died was also Sheng Yang, why are you and the king arguing about this?"

People came and went from left to right, and Liang Cheng's soldiers were divided into small teams, trotting around to clean up and search the alleys and streets.

There were corpses piled up on the side of the street, burning sizzlingly, emitting an unpleasant smell.

"There is still the last city available for supplies, and I will take it tomorrow."

After confronting each other for a while, Mu Ziling broke the silence first, and said coldly, "Today is not enough time."

Among the cities around Chifeng Pass, there are four in total. Apart from Mu Ziling's taking down three, there is also the last way to supply food and grass to the southern part of Shengyang.

It's just that for some reason, Mu Ziling found that the Yin soldiers were always a little disobedient around the city. Even if they led the ghosts that had already appeared, once they got close, they would lose control and disappear.

He wondered if something in the city affected his control, which had never happened before.

But before he had time to take a closer look, Qin Yi's army had already arrived.

"Maybe there are too many new souls, and I can't take care of them."

Mu Ziling said, "I'll try again tomorrow."

Qin Yi didn't answer, and Mu Ziling didn't bother to wait for him to answer, so he turned around and left after speaking.

However, as soon as he walked a certain distance, Qin Yi stopped him suddenly from behind.

Qin Yi straddled the horse, and Mu Ziling turned around, seeing him jumping off the ground and walking towards him step by step.

The road on the street is made of bluestone slabs, and the gaps between the bricks are covered with moss. Qin Yi's boots made a dull sound when he stepped on it.

Qin Yi walked up to him, holding the helmet in his left hand.

The armor is dark and heavy, the visitor's eyes are like deep pools, his eyebrows are handsome, his lips are like folded edges, his shoulders are broad and his back is straight, and he is dressed in a very neat and tough outfit.

Because he was so close, Mu Ziling could smell the faint smell of blood left behind when he was fighting all the way.

"Healing herbs."

Qin Yi raised his hand and handed Mu Ziling a bag with his head tilted: "Use it on the scar on your chest, it may heal."

"Thank you, Your Majesty—"

Mu Ziling lowered his eyes, looked at the medicine bag indifferently, but didn't take it: "But I don't dare to use it. I'm afraid you will kill the donkey and poison it."

The tone of his speech was [-]% cold and [-]% mocking, and Qin Yi's outstretched hand froze for a moment.

"it is good."

Qin Yi said: "You don't want to."

After finishing speaking, he turned over his hands and dumped all the precious medicinal materials that he had managed to get together in the paper bag on the ground!

... If the boss who collected the medicinal materials saw this, he would be so distressed that tears would flow out.

Ever since seeing the scar across Mu Ziling's body that day, Qin Yi has always had this picture in his mind.

Pale, lifeless skin.

A wound full of cracks and oozing black blood.

This scene disturbed Qin Yi, and before he set off for the expedition, he finally found all the medicinal materials on a prescription.

I'm afraid even Qin Yi himself didn't know where the disturbance came from, and there was no reason for it.

However, after Mu Ziling sarcastically rejected the medicine he found with such painstaking efforts, Qin Yi felt even more hot and irritable.

...It's really superfluous, looking for trouble for nothing.

"come over!"

Qin Yi called out to the old yellow dog lying on the side of the street, rubbed his feet against the medicinal materials on the ground expressionlessly, and kicked in the direction of the old dog.

The wild dog came over and sniffed it, picked up something, turned around and ran away.

"Sometimes dogs are better than people."

Seeing this scene, Qin Yi sneered, pretending to be calm and said: "At least you are good to him, he knows."

When Mu Ziling heard him pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, he laughed instead of anger.He followed Qin Yi's words: "Yes, if you raise a dog, you beat it with a whip to vent your anger. You only need to call out when you are feeding it next time, and it will come timidly."

"—It's a pity Qin Yi, I'm human."

……

At nightfall, the streets and alleys were almost cleared up, and the defenses of the captured cities were also clearly arranged.

Qin Yi stood in the backyard of the former guard's mansion, quietly listening to his subordinates report on the deployment of various places.

"As of today, there are more than [-] casualties in the army, more than [-] cavalry, and more than [-] infantry. The gaps in archers and personal guards have all been filled."

The subordinate said: "After the rest, I can be sent by the king at any time."

Qin Yi stood under the moon, his face was covered with a layer of fatigue, but the side face shrouded in the bright white moonlight was still handsome and resolute.

"understood."

He said: "The pensions of the fallen soldiers will be determined after returning to the court. They are all Liang Cheng's good men."

The subordinate answered "Yes".

There is only one wall between the guard's mansion and the outer street. Standing in the courtyard, you can clearly hear the uniform footsteps of the patrol team outside.

Qin Yi stood for a while, squeezed between his eyebrows, and said tiredly: "Okay. Let's stop here today. I'm tired. You should go back to rest earlier."

However, the subordinate stood there without moving, looking very hesitant. After a while, he quietly took out a porcelain bottle from his arms:

"My lord, this is what Daoist Yun Yin asked me to bring to you—"

"He said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed."

"..."

Qin Yi stared at the porcelain vase, his eyes gloomy and silent in the night.

After a while, he took the porcelain bottle and gently stroked the cold and delicate body with his fingers.

Before the expedition, Yunyan told Qin Yi that Mu Ziling's three-inch black hair and a body that had been dead for less than three hours were needed to perform the house-changing forbidden technique.

After Qin Yi prepared these, he put the hair into his specially forged porcelain vase, sent the body to the altar, and the work was done.

Qin Yi stared at the snow-white vial that was slightly glowing under the moon, feeling that he was about to do something extremely sinful and dirty.

This matter is not ashamed for him, but... it can be exchanged for the life of his sweetheart.

The love at first sight that year, and the accidental accident that left without saying goodbye, now fortunately, there is a chance to make up for it...

Qin Yi took a light breath, closed his eyes, and slowly put the porcelain bottle into his sleeve.

"understood."

He said: "The orphan will arrange it."

Exploiting the territory, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, Qin Yi thought, he claims to be a good king, but he can't even protect the life of the one he loves.

Today, the heavens showed mercy and gave him a chance to redeem himself, so what right did he have to despise this method as unfair?

If he could return to the little white-clothed, black-haired boy by the West Lake, this time, he would definitely hold him in the palm of his hand, and protect him from all wind, rain, frost, and cold, so that he would not suffer from any thorns——

So that Qingqing can keep her face open.

Qin Yi clenched the warm vial in his hand, and walked towards Mu Ziling's bedroom.

……

Maybe it was because he witnessed the scene of the young man crying and wailing while hugging his mother in the raging flames during the day, Mu Ziling dreamed of many old things that he hadn't thought of for a long time that night.

In the early spring of that year, he seized Yunyan's throne, and became a person who killed his father and brother, which is unacceptable.

But despite this, Mu Ziling didn't have much psychological burden. Instead, he didn't even have time to do the coronation ceremony, so he sent everyone around him to Liang Cheng to inquire about businessmen who had contacts with Sheng Yang.

I don't know his name or origin, the only clue is that he is from Liang Cheng, a businessman at home.

This is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, but Mu Ziling is quite persistent.

Six years have passed, and he still remembers the young man who promised him to pick him up to Liang Cheng. Even though there was no news from him after he left, Mu Ziling still waited persistently.

He believed that the other party would keep his promise without hesitation, just because the boy had given up his life to save him——

The light and temperature brought by a firewood may not be a big deal to people who have been grilling charcoal fires all year round, but for the eternal night people who have trekked in the snow all their lives, the scorching heat is enough to remember this life .

Sometimes Mu Ziling would look at his eyebrows and eyes in the bronze mirror, thinking, when he grows up, will he recognize him when we meet again?

What does he look like now?

When I meet again, he must tell him that I will meet you that day, thank you for saving me from despair and the quagmire.

Without you, there would be no Mu Ziling today.

Amidst all these hopes and expectations, Mu Ziling never expected that before he heard the news of the young man, he would first have to wait for Liang Cheng's army to overwhelm the situation.

It was heard that it was King Liang Cheng who led his own troops to conquer, but in just half a month, he was killed like a broken bamboo under Yunyan's royal city.

Mu Ziling took A'Zhu up to the castle tower alone, thinking about meeting this well-known Lord Liang Cheng for a while.

Until a long time later, Mu Ziling still remembered the scene of that day.

The wind in March was sharp and clear, the city walls were empty, and all the flowers and branches were stretched and blooming.

He went up to the tower and saw the two thousand people he had been thinking about day and night, he couldn't help curling the corners of his lips and laughing——

But before he could make a sound, the man bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot through Mu Ziling's right shoulder indifferently, nailing him to the city wall.

He led a large army to invade the city and plunder the land, completely ignoring the dazed look in Mu Ziling's eyes and the joy of reunion after a long absence, and traveled thousands of miles just to take his life.

Mu Ziling stared blankly at Qin Yi, then lowered his eyes, and glanced at his shoulder where blood was gushing out.

Liang Cheng's scarlet military flag fluttered in the wind.

...Oh, so he is Qin Yi.

Mu Huai'an's best friend, Liang Wang Qin Yi.

Mu Ziling laughed, at first it was a low chuckle, and then her frail and frail shoulders trembled silently:

It’s ridiculous.

The person he had waited for so long had come to take his life for someone else.

Mu Ziling tried to clench his fist and summon the ghost, but was shot through the wrist again by the second arrow.

Mu Ziling felt a piercing pain coming from his right hand, which made him burst into tears.

At that moment, Mu Ziling felt an unprecedented humiliation and humiliation:

What is he doing...

He thought, he was waiting for someone who liked his brother to take him away from Yunyan...!

In March when the spring flowers were in full bloom, a 15-year-old white-robed boy was weeping on the high platform while laughing madly.

……

Qin Yi stood outside the door for a long while. In the middle of the night, he gently pushed open the door of Mu Ziling's room.

The white moonlight shines into the room through the window paper, lonely and cold.

Mu Ziling lay curled up on the bed with his face facing inward, and Qin Yi could only see his thin and bowed back.

This person has been so vicious, but he doesn't know why, every time Qin Yi sees his thin and lonely body, he feels lonely and pitiful.

Qin Yi stood beside the bed, gently pulling up a strand of Mu Ziling's hair——

Because she untied the red rope before going to bed, her long black hair fell loose, some fell softly along the edge of the bed, and some messily stuck to Mu Ziling's cheeks.

Mu Ziling's cheeks were blurred in the dim light. From Qin Yi's perspective, he could only see his collarbone half hidden in the shadow, and his deep neck.

His forehead was covered with dense sweat, as if he was deeply trapped in a nightmare.

Qin Yi stared at the black hair in his hand, silently estimated the length of three inches, hesitated for a long time, and finally was about to pick up the small scissors by the bedside, when Mu Ziling murmured something suddenly in his sleep.

It was a very light, very fast, completely unconscious sentence.

However, Qin Yi stood by the bed and froze when he heard what Mu Ziling said.