she won't live to twenty

When Yuwen Tianming was digging the corpses, Qiufen also stared at the pile of corpses with gloomy eyes, but it was a pity that not even a single weapon was found on her body, let alone an unknown corpse.

Yuwen Tianming turned around with a smile, just in time to see the emotion flickering in Qiufen's eyes.

"I'm disappointed, Xiao Wuming is not dead." Yuwen Tianming smiled and kicked Qiufen hard, kicking him into the city wall. He also flew up, and when Qiufen was about to fall to the ground, he grabbed him again collar, lest he fall to his death.

Autumn Equinox coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood with difficulty.

Yuwen Tianming rode back to Weibei City and threw the autumn equinox to the soldiers in the barracks who were in charge of interrogating the enemy.In fact, there was nothing to torture, after all, he was Tang Zhi's dead man, and he was also the one who pushed Wuming off the city wall, it was a certainty.As for why he wanted to sneak attack Wuming?Yuwen Tianming didn't care.Yuwen Tianming didn't want to get anything from him, he just wanted to make his death more painful.

Half an hour later, Tang Zhengze rode his horse back from the pass.

"Yuwen, how are you?" Tang Zhengze asked with a frown.

"He's caught, and he's locked up there for torture." Yuwen Tianming sat on the steps, pointing to the tent behind him, which heard hoarse screams, "I didn't find Xiao Wuming's body, and the dead man didn't know her whereabouts either. .She's supposed to be alive, somewhere in the wasteland, or in the city."

Yuwen Tianming said a nonsense last sentence, but it was this sentence that made Tang Zhengze's eyes turn red.

"It's good to be alive." Tang Zhengze sat next to him and said, "I checked the pass registration just now, and Xiaoliu's people really left Weibei three days ago, and they probably took Nanyue with them at that time. let's go."

Yuwen Tianming sighed with a smile: "These two little guys, now one is seriously injured and missing, and the other has been tied back to the capital. They really are a pair of fateful couples."

Tang Zheng shook his head: "Yuwen, what specific thoughts do you have on Wuming's whereabouts?"

"It should be in the wasteland." Yuwen Tianming stopped talking nonsense and joking, and said calmly, "Since the Weibei Army did not find her whereabouts, it is only possible that the barbarians took advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to take her captive to the depths of the wasteland."

Tang Zhengze pinched the snow on the ground and paused: "It fell into the hands of barbarians... still life or death is unknown."

"It's better than finding the corpse already." Yuwen Tianming propped his chin with both hands and said, "In short, if you live, you must see people and if you die, you must see the corpse. Even if I search the entire wasteland, I must find my apprentice. I am afraid of repeating the same thing. What happened to my father, I have never dared to marry a wife and have children in this life, I only have Xiaowuming as a descendant, unlike you, at least I have a younger sister. Tang Zhengze, you are cowardly and fearful, and even your own sister can do it for your own life Abandoned, it is for her good. I am different from you. Whoever dares to bully me, I will return it thousands of times. If Wuming really dies in the desert, I will only do two things for the rest of my life .”

Tang Zhengze was taken aback, his body stiffened suddenly, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

Yuwen Tianming's voice was still very calm: "The first thing is to flatten the desert and slaughter all the barbarians. The second thing is to enter the Central Plains and kill Tang Zhi with his own hands."

"Yuwen, you..."

Before Tang Zhengze could finish speaking, Yuwen Tianming got up and said indifferently, "In two days, I will get up and cross the desert to return to Loulan."

Tang Zheng stood up without hesitation: "I'll accompany you to the desert."

Yuwen Tianming turned his head and glanced at him lightly, then nodded.At this time, his face was covered with stains, his maroon curly hair was also dirty, his appearance was extremely embarrassing, but his temperament was like a king overlooking everything from above.

Although Yuwen Tianming didn't say anything, Tang Zhengze knew it well.

Yuwen Tianming was blaming him.

Blame him for being cowardly and incompetent, he insisted on dragging in the capital for several days, completely hiding it from King Qin and Tang Zhi's eyes and ears before he dared to set off.If they had set off earlier, this would not have happened at all.

Obviously, the two of them were advancing and retreating in unison before, but when Tang Zhengze blamed himself for this, Yuwen Tianming comforted him in turn.But after really confirming Wuming's whereabouts, Yuwen Tianming renounced him without hesitation.

Yuwen Tianming has always had such an incomprehensible weird temperament.

In fact, Tang Zhengze knew in his heart that although they had been together for many years, they were still not the same kind of people.If there was no nameless among them, when he returned to Beijing, Yuwen Tianming would have left Daqin and returned to his hometown without looking back.Because of his unknown name, Yuwen Tianming stayed in the capital with peace of mind, and lived a leisurely and playful life with him.

Having been together for more than ten years, the relationship between them can be said to be deep.But now Wuming is gone, and the cracks between them are quickly revealed.Yuwen Tianming has always looked down on him, looked down on him for being soft-hearted, looked down on his cowardice, looked down on him for not even being able to protect his own family.

Tang Zhengze's throat rose and fell, and the back of his fist burst into blue veins, but he slowly returned to normal.

……

On the second day, Yuwen Tianming walked into the interrogation tent.

The light inside is very dark, only two candles are lit, and the red light is very oppressive.Qiufen was dying and tied to the execution chair. His face was extremely pale due to excessive blood loss, and painful sounds came from his throat from time to time.I don't know what method the executioner used to prevent him from fainting.

"Did something come out of his mouth?" Yuwen Tianming cleaned himself up early, at this time he took off his leather gloves and sat down on the middle chair indifferently.Rarely, the chestnut curly hair was not scattered behind her back, but was tied into a ponytail, her chin was raised slightly, and she looked dignified.

"No." The soldier thought to himself that you only asked us to torture him yesterday, but didn't say what to ask... Can we really pry things out of his mouth?

"Then you go to rest and leave the rest to me." Yuwen Tianming waved his hand lightly.

The soldiers nodded and left, and he didn't realize until he walked out of the camp that Yuwen Tianming was just a friend of the eldest prince, not a general in the army, why should he listen to his orders?

In the tent, Yuwen Tianming got up and looked down at the autumnal equinox indifferently.

At this time, Qiufen was already delirious, muttering something in his mouth, and his eyes were lax.

Yuwen Tianming pinched his chin with his hands, carefully observed his ugly cheeks, and suddenly sneered: "What an ugly monster."

Qiufen suddenly widened his eyes, struggled vigorously, and let out an unwilling roar in his throat.

"Ho-!"

Yuwen Tianming shook his chin, continued to laugh and said, "I don't know why Tang Zhi chose an ugly monster like you as a dead soldier, he doesn't think it disgusting? Oh, he is a lunatic himself, maybe he likes you Ugly."

"You are willing to kill Wuming at the expense of your own life. Could it be because of your lunatic Highness? He likes Wuming and wants to marry her, so you are jealous of her?"

Yuwen Tianming's words really stimulated the autumn equinox, and finally a meaningful sound came out of his hoarse throat.

"What do you know! Your Highness, he is not a lunatic!" Qiufen's eyes were red, and he raised his head to stare at Yuwen Tianming, "It's all witches... It's all because of the witches that he becomes crazy! As long as he gets rid of the witches, he can Return to the way it was before! I did nothing wrong, I did it for His Highness."

Yuwen Tianming looked down at him coldly, and after a long time, he said: "Your face is so ugly, is it because you were burned when you were a child? Let me guess, everyone around you hated you at that time and regarded you as a monster. Only your lunatic Highness treats you well, so you are willing to be his dead soldier, hide in the dark to protect him, and dedicate everything to him, right?"

Qiufen suddenly quieted down, and fear flashed in his eyes.

"Looks like I guessed right. Cut, it's such a clichéd plot." Yuwen Tianming gave a soft "cut" and continued, "Judging from the distribution and depth of the wounds on your face, you should be around six years old Burned, have you ever thought that your injury might not be an accident at all, but man-made?"

"Shut up! Your Highness, he...he was only six years old at the time, it is impossible for him to do such a thing!" Autumn Equinox roared hoarsely.

Yuwen Tianming smiled lightly: "Your Highness is impossible, but what about King Qin? If I'm not wrong, you used to be an ordinary child in an ordinary village, so how could you have been scalded on your face and throat by such a coincidence? Being treated as a monster, and meeting the only Tang Zhi who is gentle to you by such a coincidence? You haven't thought about it all these years, is it all too coincidental?"

Autumn Equinox panted heavily, and the veins on his forehead were exposed, apparently caught in an extremely painful memory: "Even if it was done by King Qin, it has nothing to do with His Highness. Sooner or later, Your Highness will ascend to the throne to avenge me..."

"Revenge? Are you referring to the fact that your face was scalded, or the fact that you were arrested in Weibei today?" Yuwen Tianming said indifferently, "Or both? Tsk, you really trust your Highness. But you have been with him for more than ten years, and you really don’t know what kind of person he is? If his father did these things to you and trained you to be his dead man, even if he didn’t participate in it, he would never know Love, right?"

Qiufen's expression gradually became stunned.

"What's more, you violated your highness' wishes by attacking Wuming and pushing her off the city wall. If your highness found out, what would he do to you? Will he really avenge you?" Yuwen Tianming cruelly squinted his eyes , "His Royal Highness Seven has written back to Beijing to inform Tang Zhi of this matter."

"No—! That's not the case, His Highness won't believe you!" Qiufen roared sadly.

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, your Highness won't live long anyway." Yuwen Tianming said calmly, "The Great Highness and the Seventh Highness have decided to unite and rebel and enter Changjing. You know exactly who your lunatic Highness is. What, do you really think that he can withstand the Weibei iron cavalry? Even if the Weibei army's vitality is seriously injured in this battle, it is enough to level the entire Changjing."

"However, although I have been staying with His Highness all these years, I am still not your Qin people." Yuwen Tianming suddenly smiled seductively, "I am from Loulan, and it has nothing to do with you Qin people's infighting, on the contrary. The harder you fight, the happier I am. So I will not kill you here, I will let you go. If you have the ability, crawl back to Changjing and rescue your lunatic Highness before the world is in chaos. .”

Yuwen Tianming was all smiles at this time, but he drew his knife and cut off Qiufen's legs and hands without hesitation, and then walked out of the tent without looking back, regardless of the screams behind him.

He cheated on the autumn equinox.

Tang Zhengze never said that he would rebel, but if Wuming really died, Yuwen Tianming would definitely return to Changjing again, kill Tang Zhi with his own hands, and let him die painfully by his hands.As for Autumn Equinox, who has become a useless person... Just watch from the side in despair, and then live this life in despair.

Death is no revenge, only living is the greatest punishment.

But if Wuming is still alive... Let her cut off all of this with her own hands.Whether it's the autumnal equinox or Tang Zhi, it's all in her hands.

On the second day, Yuwen Tianming and Tang Zhengze went deep into the wilderness to go to Loulan. Tang Chiyu continued to guard Weibei until the barbarians were completely defeated, until the day they found their unknown whereabouts.

……

Half a month later, Changjing was ten miles away.

Several carriages sped along the official road and headed straight for Changjing.The driver of the carriage in the front was a dead man Dong Zhi with a long knife. He saw from a distance that there was a middle-aged man standing in the middle of the road not far away, no matter how ordinary he looked.

Dong Zhi didn't let the carriage pass by that man, but stopped in front of him, dismounted and saluted, "Mr. Wang."

"They all work for His Highness, so why be so polite." Wang Tianba, or Tang Zhi's No.4 dead man, Li Xia, patted Dong Zhi on the shoulder, and said with a simple smile, "I am here to pick you up by His Highness's order." Miss Nan returned to Beijing, is she in the carriage now?"

"Yes." Winter Solstice said softly.

The curtain of the car was lifted immediately, Wang Tianba looked over with a simple and honest smile, he only took one look, the smile on his face froze suddenly, and his eyes were full of anger.

Nanyue lay weakly in the carriage, as if she had been given some drug, her eyelids trembled slightly, and her already fair skin was even paler because she hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time.There were two maids in the carriage, but they were not so much taking care of Nanyue as they were holding her arm and monitoring her movements all the time.

"Your Highness ordered you to pick her up, is this how you picked her up?" Wang Tianba's voice was deep and thick, and his anger focused on Dong Zhi.

"Mr. Wang, we were also afraid that she would slip away halfway, so we had no choice but to..." Dong Zhi suddenly knelt down on one knee, his hands almost trembling.Although both he and Wang Tianba are dead soldiers around His Highness, but Wang Tianba is a master of the first rank of the gods, and he is a person bestowed to His Highness by His Majesty, so he is not something he can afford.

Just the coercion released from Wang Tianba's body made Dong Zhi tremble all over.

"She's just a little girl. If you can't even look down on a little girl, how can you protect Your Highness?" Wang Tianba walked up to Dong Zhi step by step, pinched the back of his neck easily, and took a deep breath, but in the end he didn't know what to do. Didn't do anything, "The antidote."

"But……"

"The antidote." Wang Tianba repeated.

Dong Zhi didn't dare to hesitate any longer, took out the antidote from his bosom tremblingly, and handed it to the maid in the carriage.One of the two maids poured tea and the other fed medicine. It took a while for Nanyue to recover from the weak state of being unable to move.

"Miss from the Nan family, I am someone close to His Highness. We met once in Luoyan Pagoda, do you still remember?" Wang Tianba put away his anger, walked to the carriage, and said with a gentle smile.

Nanyue thought about it for a moment, then nodded: "I remember."

Nanyue only met Wang Tianba once in Luoyan Pagoda, but later when she and Wuming mentioned this matter during the trip, Wuming said that he was a very dangerous person.His martial arts are so strong that he can even kill Wuming easily.

Therefore, Nanyue was a little scared, and the emotion of fear clearly flashed in her eyes.

Not only did Wang Tianba not feel angry, but he laughed loudly: "Don't be afraid, girls from the Nan family. They treated you badly along the way. It's their fault. I'll teach them a lesson for you. Now that you're back in the capital, don't worry! I will protect you, no one will dare to bully you again."

Nan Yue blinked quietly, tears flickering in her eyes.

Wang Tianba's heart almost melted when he saw it.

"Miss Nan took the carriage all the way, is she in good health? Do you want to get out of the carriage and take a walk?" Wang Tianba asked softly.

Nanyue didn't answer, and Wang Tianba didn't ask any more questions, just waited patiently.

After a long time, Nanyue said softly: "...is it okay?"

"Yes, of course. Come on, let's get off the carriage!" Wang Tianba laughed.

Nanyue slowly got off the carriage, because she hadn't moved for a long time, her body was weak and leaned to the side.Wang Tianba stretched out his hand to support her, but she dodged to the other side without a trace, and supported the carriage by herself.

Xiao Huangsha got out of her arms and grinned at Wang Tianba.

"Haha..." Wang Tianba scratched his head and laughed, "My surname is Wang, Miss Nan, just call me Uncle Wang."

"Uncle Wang." Nanyue walked forward slowly with Xiao Huangsha in her arms, and Wang Tianba and Dongzhi followed her from left to right.

She looked at the looming city wall in the distance, her eyes were confused.

She was separated from Wuming again.

This time, I don't know how long it will take to see you again.

Nanyue tilted her head, looked at Wang Tianba's simple and honest smile, and suddenly asked softly: "Uncle Wang, why did His Royal Highness take me back to Changjing?"

"You don't know?" Wang Tianba said with a smile, "His Highness wants to marry you into the palace, and when he ascends to that position in the future, you will be the empress in the palace, how wonderful?"

"...Oh." Nanyue withdrew her gaze lightly and asked, "Where's Sister Changning?"

Winter Solstice replied: "Miss Nan, don't worry, someone will take her back to Changjing, and within a week at most, you can meet again in the palace."

Nanyue let out a faint "oh" again, her eyes were flat.

"Miss Nan, why do I feel that you are unhappy?" Wang Tianba frowned and said with concern, "Are you missing your family? We will go back to the capital later, so we can go back to Nan's house first, without any delay. .After you enter the palace, you can go home anytime.”

"No..." Nanyue wanted to say "I don't want to", but changed her words, "Don't bother."

"Where is there any trouble? Let's go directly to Nan's house later!"

Wang Tianba patted his head, feeling more distressed about this sensible little girl.Miss Nan has been away for nearly half a year, how could she miss home?What's more, she almost died in Yanbei first, and then she was probably frightened in the Weibei military camp. How can such a delicate girl stay in Weibei?Not only did the Dongzhi group of guards not take good care of her, they even brutally tied her back to Changjing. It is very rare for the little girl not to be frightened into crying and making a fuss, but she is still so sensible, which is really pitiful.

Wang Tianba glanced at Dongzhi again, and the hairs all over his body stood on end, then he followed Nanyue's pace with a silly smile: "Miss Nan, I have no children and no daughters all my life, but I have a close eye for you. You If you don't dislike me, how about you recognize me as a righteous father?"

Nanyue didn't answer.

She was thinking that since Wuming said that this person has high martial arts skills, he must be very strong.And everyone else seemed to be afraid of him, which meant that his status beside Tang Zhi must not be low.

But what has it to do with her?

She did feel sad, she did feel scared.

But she just... wants to be nameless.

……

Another half month later.

Wuming seems to have had a very long dream, all kinds of things from the previous life, dreaming of the end of this life, and dreaming of all the content in the "Zhenbei" article.The pain of being pierced in the left chest lingered throughout the dream, until finally it disappeared without a trace.

The last memory in the dream is that in the original "Zhenbei", Nanyue was pierced through the heart by Wei Jiu's sword.

Two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of Wuming's eyes.

Then she woke up suddenly.

Wuming opened his eyes with difficulty, and what he saw was the magnificent ceiling of the palace.She raised her arms weakly and stood up, seeing herself in the middle of a palace.There was no one in the spacious hall, only the faint incense was burning.

...Did you cross again?

What about Nanyue?Where is she now and how is it?

"Hmm..." Thinking of Nanyue, Wuming immediately felt a sharp pain in her left chest. She covered her heart, lowered her head and looked from the wide robe, her heart was tightly bound by bandages.

It was still the familiar body, even the wounds were still there, and she hadn't crossed over.

Beside the bed were her weapons neatly placed, as well as a hairpin with Nanyue's name engraved on it.Wuming stretched out his hand to hold the hairpin, feeling much more at ease in his heart.

But where are you now?Wuming is familiar with the structure of the Great Qin Palace, this place is definitely not in the Qin Kingdom.

Wuming stood up with one hand supporting the pillar beside the bed, and with the other hand covering his painful heart, he stood up with difficulty.After taking a few steps, he slumped to the ground weakly.

The internal force in her body is still there, but now that her heart is damaged, she can't use the internal force at all.Wuming supported the side of the bed, trying to stand up, but her body was extremely weak. This was the first time she was truly weak to such a state since she traveled through time.

Wuming once again deeply realized that there is no cheat at all, she is just an ordinary human like everyone else in this world, there is no difference.

"Your Highness, you are awake!" An excited female voice came from the door, and a maid wearing a water-blue exotic long dress and hair decorated with various gold hairpins walked in quickly, and anxiously helped her up.

Wuming was holding the hairpin tightly in his hand all the time, his arms were tense, and a layer of sweat oozes from the violent trembling.

"Your Highness, you have been in a coma for almost a month, and now you have finally woken up. I, I will tell Your Majesty right away." The maid said excitedly.

It was only then that Wuming noticed that the maid was not only wearing strange clothes, but also had a tall nose and deep eyes, and a burly figure, somewhat similar to the Loulan envoy she had seen at the Spring Festival banquet.

The maid also spoke Loulan dialect.

"Wait..." As soon as Wuming opened her mouth, she realized that her throat was extremely dry. She covered her lips and coughed for a while, and the maid immediately brought a bowl of water.Wuming drank the warm water in one gulp, and finally recovered a bit.

"Where is this?" Wuming asked.

"Ah...Your Highness, you don't know, this is the Loulan Palace." The maid's voice was crisp.