Gusu snow

The rumors in the market seemed to be starting to become true. Whether it was the emperor's serious illness or the Southwest Army's emergency situation, they all seemed true.

Qian Qiu was standing on the streets of Gusu City holding the pen, ink, paper and inkstone she just bought, when she heard the passers-by beside her muttering rumors.

He instinctively stopped to listen, only to hear clearly that what these people were talking about was neither the emperor's serious illness nor the military situation in the southwest, but the state of Chu in the north, which was beyond reach.

Chu State.Qianqiu remembered that Yun Shen told him not to listen to rumors, but he couldn't move.

I just heard the man say: "Hey, do you know that the new emperor of Chu has succeeded to the throne not long ago, and he is carrying out major reforms! It is said that the new emperor is young and promising, and he has a mellow life, and seems to have done a few jobs with me. Where is the proton of the year!"

"Have you been a proton? Can you go back to be the emperor?" Someone asked in surprise, "Is there no one left in Chu!"

"It's just a small proton, what can it do!" Someone chattered, "I see, this Chu country will be destroyed sooner or later, and the emperor is our Qi country's proton!"

"You can't say that..." The voice at the beginning said mysteriously, "It is rumored that the new emperor's methods are severe and vigorous. And I, you all know that the Holy One is seriously ill, and the Southwest was attacked by Wei and Qin. The general will definitely be able to win, but what about the sky in the capital?"

The echoing voice sounded immediately: "It's reasonable, it's reasonable."

Qian Qiu couldn't help asking: "The new emperor of the Chu Kingdom succeeds? When did the former emperor die?"

The man gave him a strange look: "Don't you know? I heard that the first emperor of Chu State passed away well, without any illness, and he went there just a month ago."

"Oh." Qianqiu murmured.

"Master, what are you doing here?" Zhu Jiang paid the bill and came over, only to see Qian Qiu standing aside holding a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

"Ah? It's okay, let's go." Qianqiu handed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to Zhu Jiang, and nodded.

Time has passed slowly before everyone is aware of it, and the early summer season has arrived.

Qin Mei and Yunxiu returned to Yunfu on the second day after Yunfeng left Gusu, and it has been ten days now.

The atmosphere in the mansion was dull, and everyone knew why.

Even Yun Shen couldn't erase the look of sadness between his brows.

Qianqiu couldn't bear this dull atmosphere, and was about to go out for a walk, but saw Zhu Jiang hurried back from Mu's residence, and hurriedly said: "The sage is dead!"

Qianqiu's body trembled, he was confused, and ran to find Yunshen in a panic.Yun Shen frowned slightly, put his arm on Qian Qiu's shoulder: "Don't panic."

Turning to Zhu Jiang again: "The new emperor is the prince?"

Zhu Jiangmeng nodded: "Yes, it's the prince. I will accompany the young lady to Mu's mansion to hear the news from Mr. Mu with my own ears!"

Qian Qiu looked at Yun Shen in a panic, only to see that his eyes were as calm as water, as if everything was invulnerable.

His heart settled down at this moment.

It's just that Qianqiu didn't expect that the news of the Empress Dowager's funeral would come back just the next day.

Qin Mei and Yunxiu were called into the palace again.

Qin Mei's family belonged to the former ministers, and was quite related to the Empress Dowager's family, but now it has long since declined.

The Empress Dowager regards Qin Mei as her daughter, and also likes Yunxiu very much, and often likes to announce the two of them to accompany her in the palace, and they have long been familiar with each other.This time the Empress Dowager died suddenly, Qin Mei and Yunxiu must be very sad.

The night was as dark as water, Qianqiu put on a cloak and came to the small courtyard, blowing the cold wind and looking up at the sky.

There was the sound of unhurried steps behind him, and he didn't need to think about it to know that it was Yun Shen.

Qian Qiu was sitting on the steps, and wanted to stand up, but Yun Shen sat down next to him first, and followed him to look up at the sky.

"Qianqiu can't sleep?"

"How can I sleep?" Qianqiu said, "So many things have happened recently. Wei and Qin jointly attacked Chu, the generals went out to fight, the Southwest Army was in a hurry, the Holy One and the Queen Mother died successively, and the new emperor of Chu succeeded to the throne. It feels like an earth-shattering event.”

"I also know that I worry too much, and these things have not yet affected us..." Qianqiu was a little annoyed, "But I don't know why, from the very beginning, when Yunxiu was kidnapped, I always felt a faint uneasiness in my heart If you don't get it out, you will be anxious and depressed all the time."

Yun Shen's eyes looking at the deep night shifted to Qian Qiu's side face.He looked at Qianqiu with an annoyed expression, pursed his lips slightly, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pull him into his arms.

Qian Qiu struggled a little, but still rested her head on Yun Shen's arms, listening to his steady heartbeat, the boredom in her heart gradually disappeared.

"Doesn't Qianqiu like Gusu?" He heard Yun Shen's voice from above, and the reverberation reverberated in his chest.

"Compared to Lin'an, I really don't like it." Qianqiu slowly closed his eyes and said, "But, I like the snow in Gusu very much."

Yun Shen smiled lightly and said, "The snow in Gusu is one of the best in the four countries, but it rarely snows heavily. The last time, ten years ago, was when I picked you up."

Qian Qiu pouted and said: "My wish in this life is to see the heavy snow in Gusu with you once."

Yun Shen muttered: "Then it depends on whether the sky will fulfill Qianqiu's wish."

The funeral of the emperor and queen mother was completed soon, and the whole country mourned. At the same time, the crown prince Qi Beizhao succeeded to the throne.

The sun was just right in early summer, and it was only after noon that Yun Mansion ushered in a guest.

It was Qi Beisheng who came.

When Zhu Jiang came to report, Qianqiu was startled. When he hurried over to look, he saw Qi Beisheng in white filial piety. He seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and the expression of laughing between his brows disappeared, replaced by exhaustion. with stoicism.Qian Qiu walked over slowly, and suddenly felt that this person was quite strange.

Qin Mei and Yunxiu also came back early, and after a few polite words, they went to the study.Qi Beisheng leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes, looking very tired.

Yunxiu shook Qi Beisheng's hand worriedly, Qi Beisheng opened his eyes to look at her, and gave her a comforting smile.

"What happened?" Qian Qiu couldn't help asking.

Qi Beisheng smiled self-deprecatingly: "As you can see, the emperor passed away, and the crown prince will succeed to the throne soon."

He slowly described the changes that happened in the past few months: "After I left Lin'an, I rushed all the way back to Gusu City, but the crown prince and Shen Yue were one step ahead of me after all. By the side, and the father is drinking medicine."

"At that time, I didn't realize that something was wrong, because the emperor's medicine has always been taken care of by the cronies around me. Although I was puzzled at the time, I never thought that the crown prince and the Shen family had such a deep collusion that they would use a lot of money and high officials' salary for their own benefit. Buy him off!"

Qi Beisheng's eyes were sullen, "I only know that the crown prince has close contacts with the Shen family, but I never thought that nearly half of the officials in the court are in collusion with him!"

"The prince didn't make any movements at first, and when I observed them carefully, I just felt that they were acting suspiciously, but I couldn't guard against them. I didn't realize until one day that my father suddenly coughed up blood and became seriously ill, but it was too late." Qi Beisheng looked sad.Yunxiu couldn't bear it, so she could only hold his hand firmly.

"One day, my father called me to the bedside and told me the truth. Only then did I realize that the prince had almost controlled the people around my father. My father told me that there was a will in the secret room, which was to abolish the prince and make me the heir apparent. The imperial edict, ordered me to take it away."

"And the next day, my father passed away suddenly. I also failed to find the will. I think the crown prince already knew about it. My father passed away. He is the crown prince, and his succession is natural, and there is nothing I can do."

Qi Beisheng sighed, "It's all my fault for not realizing it sooner."

Qian Qiu said angrily: "I don't blame you, all this is the work of the prince and Shen Yue!"

He said to himself: "You don't play with power like him, do you? The prince's power in the city is much deeper than you, and he has bought many people's hearts! Naturally, it is difficult for you to collect evidence, not to mention that the emperor has not issued an edict for a long time? It is even more difficult for you to interfere with the prince's affairs!"

Yunxiu suddenly said: "The prince is nothing, the main thing is Shen Yue beside him."

"Shen Yue is a mellow person, with decisive and cruel methods, and he does certain things cleanly, and the status of the Shen family in the court is getting higher and higher, so many ministers in the court are on Shen Yue's side, both openly and secretly. of."

Yunxiu said in a deep voice, "But Shen Yue is also very arrogant."

Just as Qian Qiu was about to say something, he suddenly heard the noise in the yard, and he didn't know what happened, and someone outside shouted heart-piercingly: "Madam! Madam!"

Several people walked out quickly, only to see Zhu Jiang rushing over with a panicked face.

Qianqiu saw a man in armor standing in the lobby with many scars.When the man saw Yun Shen, he suddenly knelt down, clasped his fists and said loudly, "Master Yun, I am the deputy general of the general's next week! General, general..."

Strong uneasiness surged in Qianqiu's heart, Yunxiu rushed forward, opened her eyes angrily and asked in a trembling voice: "What's wrong with my father?!"

Deputy General Zhou lowered his head tremblingly and said, "General, he died in battle."

Qianqiu's brain exploded with a buzzing sound, and his uneasiness reached the extreme at this moment, he stood at a loss, his eyes and ears began to blur, and he only heard Zhu Jiang shouting behind him: "Ma'am! Ma'am, are you alright!"

The accident happened so fast that people were caught off guard, and there was no way to reverse it except to accept and face it passively.

Before Qianqiu could react, he was already kneeling in the white lobby in sackcloth and filial piety, staring blankly at the pitch-black coffin.Beside him were Qin Mei and Yunxiu crying in grief.

There were no corpses in the coffin. According to Deputy General Zhou, there were many barbarians in the southwest, and the war was chaotic. Yunfeng was seriously injured but still fought bravely to kill the enemy.

The soldiers of the army thought that there was no serious problem, but they didn't know that Yunfeng had died in the line of duty until the war was subsided.But at this time, Yunfeng's body could not be recovered.

It is Yunfeng's wish to be able to die in battle.

Qian Qiu knelt in the lobby and wondered in a daze, whether this day came too soon.

He suddenly remembered that when he was born, he was said to have different numbers in this life, but he didn't know whether it was good or bad.Now it seems that it must be a big bad that brings disasters to people.

His eye sockets were faintly hot, and soon tears couldn't stop pouring out.He could no longer see clearly the pitch-black coffin, Yun Xiu and Qin Mei's grief-stricken faces, and Yun Shen's expression beside him.

There is only a miserable white in front of my eyes.