The Wife is First

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongzheng's year, winter seemed to be colder than in previous years. It had snowed several times in a row, and it stopped a little on this day.

On a trail thirty miles outside Beijing, a black horse galloped past carrying two people on its back. The horse's hooves raised the snow on the ground, and it slowly fell after the two people were far away.

"Your Majesty, the horse can't carry the two of them very far... Let me down..." The voice of the person sitting behind was a little weak, but his tone was gentle as usual.

"No, you are so seriously injured. If I throw you into the snow, you will die in a matter of seconds!" Jing Shao wiped the ice on his face, clamped the horse's belly and continued running. As soon as he came out of prison, he realized that there was something wrong with the people who came to release him. If he was forced to go to Shu, he should at least treat the seriously injured princess and drive them away without saying a word. If he hadn't killed a lieutenant and snatched the horse, his head would have been missing as soon as he left the capital.

"My health is failing. I will die sooner or later. Let me down quickly!" The people behind him were a little anxious. This horse was not a famous horse. It had been carrying two people for so long and it had begun to pant. If this continues, I'm afraid neither of them will survive.

"No, let's die together!" Jing Shao said loudly against the cold wind. This person was the princess he was marrying. She was ignored by him for more than ten years after he spoiled his concubine and killed his wife. In the end, she accompanied him to jail and acted as a knife for him. But there is only this man and wife whom he has resented for more than ten years!

Jing Shao was the second son of Empress Yuan. He went on the battlefield to kill the enemy at the age of fourteen. He was crowned king at a young age and had great military exploits. The Chen Dynasty could marry a male wife. For the sake of the peace of the family, there was an unwritten rule that a concubine should marry a male wife. However, he was a legitimate son, and the step-empress actually forced him to marry a man because he had an elder brother, which cut off his chance to inherit the throne. qualifications. So he complained, he refused to accept it, he never gave his first wife a good look, and he refused to sincerely help his brother earn that position...

"Haha, how can I, Mu Hanzhang, be worthy enough for the prince to die with me?" The person behind him sneered.

"I'm sorry for you. If I can survive this time, I will listen to you in everything." Jing Shao comforted the person behind him, holding the reins with one hand and tightening the knot between the two with the other. Five miles ahead is Wangyue Slope. There is a path over there that he often walks when hunting. It leads directly to Fengyue Mountain. Once you enter the mountain, you can escape.

"Cough cough cough..." Mu Hanzhang couldn't help but lie on Jing Shao's back and cough violently because he was talking into the wind just now. In prison, he blocked a knife for Jing Shao, which hurt his internal organs. Every bump caused pain. Now, due to the severe cold, the wound was numb, but since he had already vomited blood... he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and simply lay on Jing Shao's side. on the back.

After so many years of neglect, the concubines dared to show off to him. It was impossible not to resent him. Since he wanted to die with him, it would be better for him to do it, Mu Hanzhang thought desperately.

He was a concubine from a noble family and had lived in poverty for ten years. He did not ask his father to pass on the title to him, but only wanted to get a good reputation and leave the family early. However, his father and aunt asked him to marry King Cheng a year before he was to take the exam. Wife! He is a man, but his wings have been cut off, and he is imprisoned in a small place in the inner house, and can no longer display his ambitions. After so many years, he didn't know whether to blame his cruel aunt or his irresponsible husband.

"In front!" From behind came the sound of horse hooves, the collision of armor and swords, and chaotic shouts, all like reminders.

Jing Shao whipped the horse's butt hard and ran towards Wangyue Slope desperately.

"Whoosh~" The sound of iron arrows piercing the air came from behind. Jing Shao accurately dodged sideways, and the people behind him were also tilted by him.

"Hold me tight!" Jing Shao shouted.

Mu Hanzhang put his hands around Jing Shao's waist and pressed his body against his back, matching his movements.

Across the Wangwangyue Slope, there is a forest path, which is convenient for avoiding arrows. Jing Shao skillfully drove his horse through the forest, and the pursuers behind him gradually got farther away.

"Does the wound hurt?" Jing Shao pulled the reins sharply to help the horse jump over a big stone, and turned around to ask after landing.

"It doesn't... hurt..." The answer became weaker and weaker.

"Hanzhang, don't sleep!" Jing Shao frowned and called anxiously, "After Fengyue Mountain, you will reach Yanjun. There are my old troops there who can definitely help us avoid being hunted!" while comforting him. I am also encouraging myself. I have been in jail for so long, and my clothes are thin. I have been able to hold on until now purely by my will.

"Eh~" The horse underneath him suddenly neighed and went crazy. Jing Shao kicked the horse's belly fiercely and pulled Mu Hanzhang to spin and jump away. Taking a closer look, I don't know who put the animal trap here, and it actually caught the horse's hoof.

"Just put me here." Mu Hanzhang said, holding on to a ray of clarity.

"We've reached the mountainside of Fengyue Mountain. There's a road down the mountain behind. I'll carry you!" Jing Shao looked around and saw that there was a cliff on one side and a steep slope covered with grass on the other. This was the only mountain road. It would be troublesome for them to catch up. . Without saying a word, she picked him up and ran towards the steep mountain forest.

"I saw them, catch them!"

"Whoever takes the king's head will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"

"Whoosh~whoosh~" Arrows kept shooting from the forest, and Jing Shao fled in a very embarrassed manner.

"Hmm~" A stray arrow hit his right leg, Jing Shao staggered, and Mu Hanzhang also fell off him.

"Your Majesty!" After struggling to get up, Mu Hanzhang stepped forward to support him.

Jing Shao glanced at him and found that his handsome and pale face was actually full of blood, and his energy was much better than before. Being used to death, he naturally knew that this was a flashback, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, and he suddenly pulled out the arrow. Arrow, grab the people around you and run.

"Hahaha, let's see where you are going to escape?" The leading lieutenant came over with a big knife and a grin.

In panic, the two ran onto a dead end road. There was a cliff in front of them and pursuers behind them. It was really impossible to escape.

Jing Shao placed the man in his arms on the edge of the cliff, turned around and kicked him across the face. The lieutenant was unprepared and was kicked to the ground. Without giving him a chance to breathe, he kicked the man in the heart and beat him until he was foaming at the mouth. He took the big knife from his hand and chopped down the pursuing horses with the knife. They walked across the narrow mountain road, one after another. Two horses tripped and fell, and the people on them fell off the cliff.

"Whoosh~" The people behind saw that the road was blocked by horse corpses. King Cheng was furious with a big knife and did not dare to step forward easily. They took out their bows and arrows to kill them.

"Well..." Blocking with a knife was of no avail. Jing Shao pulled out the arrow on his shoulder and threw it over with his backhand. There were bursts of screams, and then he jumped over the horse corpse and chopped it down. The remaining few were released. The man with hidden arrows was also killed, but he himself was also riddled with holes. Standing there and looking out, a second wave of pursuers was coming not far away. Looking at the steel knife in his hand, he could kill ten, but he couldn't kill the hundreds or thousands of pursuers.

Carrying the bloody sword back to the cliff, the blood on the knife mixed with Jing Shao's blood, leaving a long blood mark. He took the man who was leaning on the stone into his arms. The man was already very angry and his handsome face was ashen.

"Jun Qing, have you ever blamed me?" Jing Shao stretched out his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. For the first time in his life, he looked carefully at this person, the wife he was marrying. Only then did he realize that his beautiful enemy was better than all the people in Prince Cheng's palace. Concubine Ji is not the kind of enchanting woman, but a kind of beauty with a literati's pride in her handsomeness. Now, those beautiful eyes reflected his stubble-covered face. How ironic. After boring chatting in prison, I realized that this man was a once-in-a-lifetime confidant. How many beautiful things have I missed in the past ten years? ?

"How can I not complain? If it weren't for you, I would have been named on the gold medal list and entered the temple." Junqing was his nickname. This person had never called him that. Mu Hanzhang smiled and said slowly He stretched out his hand to wipe away the blood on Jing Shao's face, "But I can't blame you. You are a capable person. It was me who prevented you from inheriting the throne... ahem..."

"Hahaha, you are capable? Why are you capable? I have lived such a confused life, and I have never been comfortable for a day. Now that I think about it, I have always been wrong... Hahahaha..." Jing Shao hugged the person in his arms tightly and looked up to the sky. Laugh, think about how he fought for his country all his life, but ended up losing everything, pampering his concubines and destroying his wives. In the end, it was the man-wife who stayed with him who he had ignored for more than ten years. He was jealous of his brother and refused to help him wholeheartedly. To seize the throne, after he was in trouble, he was the only one who worked hard for him, but this brother was the only one...Sigh, sad, it was just a joke in the end!

"My life...isn't it...also a joke..." Mu Hanzhang sighed softly, "If there is...an afterlife..." Before he could finish his sentence, he couldn't take his last breath, and his beautiful eyes Slowly closing it, the slender hand also fell on the green and black stone, lifeless. Snow began to fall in the sky again at some point, and the snowflakes fell on his long eyelashes, melted by Jing Shao's breath, and turned into water droplets rolling down.

"If there is an afterlife, I will treat you well and use my whole life to compensate you..." Jing Shao leaned the person in his arms against his chest and said softly, looking up at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the distance, about to fall on the step queen And her violent son... Hearing the sound of horse hooves behind him, he slowly stood up. King Cheng is invincible in all battles in his life, and even if he dies, he will never die at the hands of these young men.

Jumping down the cliff, the mountain wind whistling past his ears, Jing Shao hugged the silent person in his arms tightly, "I won't let you go, but I can hold on to the corner of your clothes on the bridge..."

When I opened my eyes from the darkness, I saw it was not the smoky fairyland of the spiritual platform, nor the life-threatening ghosts with green faces and fangs. The eyes were full of red tents, and the dim light of the remaining candles was flickering. Jing Shao was a little stunned, feeling weak all over and having a splitting headache. He raised his hand to rub his swollen and painful forehead, and slowly sat up. When his body's senses recovered, he suddenly realized that there was someone lying next to him. His bright red robe was torn, and his black hair was scattered on the exposed chest. Jade's skin was covered with purple scars.

He reached out and brushed away the hair covering his face, revealing a handsome face... Jun Qing!