Wait for someone who can save me

Xuan Yang

sequence

He had been away from Jinling for ten years, and when he returned here, he led thousands of troops and horses and issued an order to besiege the city.

The siege lasted for months. In the end, the city was exhausted, and the person who was sent to ask for peace was a man he was not a stranger to.

"You are... King Yixing? He recalled for a moment before he remembered the former knighthood of the man in front of him.

It's not that he has a bad memory, but he really can't associate the humble man in front of him with the once high-minded clan relative.

"Grass people, come and please." King Yixing prostrated his head heavily.

"I'm not going to quit." He said in a numb and calm tone, "I left Jinling ten years ago, and I started my army seven years ago, and at that time I swore that I would raze Jinling to the ground." ”

The hand that had been accustomed to stringing pressed on the handle of the knife, and the saber came out of its sheath for half an inch, but it stopped again, and he said, "You go." ”

"The grass people know that you and the Xie clan have a feud with heaven, but the people in the city are innocent." King Yixing said busily.

"I don't hate you Xie clan anymore." He said, "If I hate, I should have killed you when you stepped into this tent." ”

"That's right." He opened his mouth again suddenly, after ten years of vicissitudes, his voice had long since become hoarse, but it was not difficult to hear a little laughter from the hoarseness, "Li Yang - is she okay?" ”

King Yixing looked up violently, his face showing a look of horror.

However, he did not seem to notice the expression of King Yixing, and said with a self-conscious smile: "Tell Princess Liyang for me, I am back, I will go to see her soon, let her wait for me." ”

King Yixing collapsed to the ground, his eyes only desperate.

One

Ten years ago, when Shang Ziqing entered Jinling City, he was sixteen years old and a slave.

His homeland had recently been destroyed, and as a remnant of the fallen kingdom, he had been plundered to the imperial capital of an enemy country.

A hundred people in chains, all young men and women with beautiful faces and good at music, will be sent to the workshop.

His long, scattered hair hung down to cover his eyes, and he stared at the heels of the person in front of him, and walked forward step by step. The people on both sides of the road were pointing at them, the slaves of the subjugated country, and he should have been angry or ashamed, but he was too tired to fall at any time, and then he could not get up again.

Nothing could be seen, nothing could be heard, until a crisp horseshoe sound came, breaking the oppressive atmosphere along the way. He subconsciously looked up with the crowd and saw a woman galloping down this long street like lightning on horseback.

It is rare to see women riding horses, but women with some status are most likely riding in ornately decorated ox carts or shoulders. Her riding skills were undoubtedly good, leaving her retinue far behind, and she strangled the horse steadily as she was about to collide with the slave who was at the forefront of the line.

The guard in charge of escorting the slaves saluted her respectfully and called her Princess Liyang.

She sat on her horse and looked down at the crowd contemptuously, "The palace is already crowded enough, why do people still have to keep stuffing people into the three palaces and six courtyards?" Which country will the people of this country also send to the palace? ”

The guards said, "The great general was brave and destroyed the Shu kingdom, and everyone in the government and the public rejoiced." ”

"The great general has made great achievements in battle." The woman on horseback seemed to be smiling, "The world is almost unified, so the beauties of the four seas in the universe should also gather in one palace?" ”

The guards did not dare to answer.

"If I were these people, I'd rather kill myself than live in the world and be humiliated." She smiled and glanced at these exotic slaves and said.

Shang Ziqing's eyelashes fluttered, and he raised his eyes that had been empty to look at the person who spoke.

The sun was blazing brightly, and he couldn't see her clearly. At the moment when she said this, she also looked in the direction where he was, and the two of them accidentally crossed their eyes.

This was their first meeting, Princess Liyang was high above, and Shangzi was as humble as dust.

Two

Princess Xie Man of Liyang had always been proud, and this was something that everyone in Jinling City knew.

On that day, her words of satire on the great general and the criticism of the emperor soon spread, but no one dared to ask her about her guilt. Because when the Emperor Tianzi was her nephew, the great general who had achieved great success was her fiancé.

Half a month ago, the emperor officially decreed that the princess should be married to the great general, and the wedding date was set for the autumn of this year. Zong Zheng, Shaofu, Taichang, and most of the female officials of the imperial palace were all mobilized, busy preparing for this marriage between the royal family and the heroes, and the only regret was that——

"Ask the princess to look over." The female officer presented the newly cut wedding dress.

The material is made of Shu brocade, the skirt is embroidered with gold and silver thread to make countless auspicious clouds, and the pearls of the East Sea are embellished with cufflinks on the hem, and this wedding dress alone is worth thousands of gold.

Xie Man glanced at him coldly and grabbed a pair of scissors casually.

The only regret of this wedding is that Xie Man himself did not want to marry the general.

She calmly destroyed the wedding dress with the scissors in her hand, and fragments fell from her fingers like dead butterflies.

The female officials watched calmly, and there was no ripple in their eyes.

This was the third wedding dress that Xie Man had destroyed.

"It seems that the princess still has a lot of dissatisfaction with the dress." The female official at the head of the group waved respectfully at Xie Manbi, "I will wait for this to order someone to make another set for the princess." ”

The female officials turned and left, and the maids were busy cleaning up the debris on the ground, and no one paid attention to Xie Man.

Her attitude was not important in the eyes of these people, and her resistance was ridiculous and useless. No one could tell her what she was going to do.

Xie Man suddenly and forcefully pulled the heavy step shake, long hairpin, and crown on his head down one by one and smashed them to the ground, and any three thousand green silks poured out like a waterfall. She strode out of the Mingguang Hall where she lived, turned over on her horse, and galloped with a whip.

She didn't care where she went, as long as she left the palace, everyone around her was silent like a puppet, and sooner or later it would drive her crazy.

Finally the horse stopped at the church.

Over the years, the great generals fought everywhere, and the church gathered the beauties of the destroyed countries, as described in a poem, "The prince and the emperor, resign from the lower hall, and come to Qin."

Xie Man stepped into the workshop, casually dragged a dancer, pinched her chin, and said, "Recruit the most beautiful maiko, the best prostitutes, and the most skilled musicians in the workshop." I'm in a bad mood right now, and if anyone can laugh at me, I'll reward him with a million dollars. If not, I will kill the man. ”

The crowd first looked at each other, and finally a few people had to stand up. The flute sounds, the strings move, and the maiko in a skirt moves with the music.

It is a song of joy between the feasts and drinks of the present nobles, and the tune is soft and brisk. However, Xie Man's expression was always indifferent, without the slightest pleasure.

The musician who finally stroked the kite could not hold on, and played a wrong note out of fear.

Xie Man smashed the wine cup in his hand.

The music stopped abruptly, and everyone fell to their knees, trembling.

So the only teenager in the room who was still standing looked particularly eye-catching.

He was holding a long piano in his arms, a plain robe, and when he stood silently in the corner before, Xie Man did not notice him, and then he realized that this person had a good appearance and charm.

His face was almost that of a girl, but when he looked up, he was shocked to realize that his eyes were lonely and cold, like a dagger with a cold light.

He looked at Xie Man and looked directly into her eyes. Step by step, he walked toward her, knelt across from her, and after laying the piano on the case, he played a song called "Drunkard" by himself.

"This is the song that Ruan Ji composed when he hid from the turbidity of the government and the wilderness and lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests?"

"Exactly." He replied, "I think this piece is a good fit for a princess." ”

"Is it?" Xie Man's tone was slightly raised, with a little mockery.

"Yes." He replied in an affirmative tone.

Xie Man gradually narrowed the smile on his lips and asked, "What is your name?" ”

"Shang Ziqing." The teenager replied.

Three

Shang Ziqing, it wasn't long before Xie Man heard these three words again from the bystanders.

She admitted that he played the piano well, but she did not expect him to become famous so quickly. Hearing that he had only been in the workshop for less than a month, Jinling knew that there was a commercial musician in the workshop who was extremely good at music.

Xie Man bought a Jiaowei qin for a lot of money, originally wanted to give it to Shang Ziqing. That day Shang Ziqing's "Drunken Mania" played very well, and she liked it. Because except for Shang Ziqing, no one understood her admiration for the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. She also hopes that she can live freely like Ruan Zhi and Liu Ling.

However, after learning that he had gained fame, she split the piano in half.

What made Shangzi famous was her cousin King Yixing. It was a fool who always liked to linger in the land of the wind and moon.

Xie Man visited the church again. The cousin was indeed there, leaning on the red and green at the same time, listening to a frivolous and beautiful song. Among those who played the piano was Shang Ziqing.

Xie Man's voice suddenly pushing the door interrupted the music, and King Yixing was displeased, saying, "What are you doing here?" ”

"I don't like to listen to this song." Xie Man said.

"Then you can leave on your own."

"I'm not talking to you." Xie Man walked directly to Shang Ziqing.

Hearing her footsteps, Shang Ziqing looked up, and when the four eyes met, both of them were silent for a brief moment.

"What my cousin wants to hear, I don't want to care. It's just this guy who plays the piano for my cousin, and I'm going to take it with me. Xie Man said expressionlessly.

"You!" King Yixing did not care much about Shang Ziqing, and what he could not tolerate was Xie Man's contempt for him, "Li Yang, marriage is imminent, I advise you to better keep to yourself." ”

Xie Man didn't bother to talk to King Xing of Yi, and looked at Shang Ziqing and said, "Don't you want to follow me?" ”

"The princess wants me to follow you?" Shang Ziqing seemed to smile.

"Wouldn't you?"

"Yes, I don't." Shang Ziqing narrowed his eyes.

"Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

"Everyone in the church belongs to the Son of Heaven." Shang Zi replied calmly.

That was the truth, no matter how reluctant Xie Man was to admit it. She couldn't kill Shang Ziqing, or even really take him away, because she was just a princess, with no honor but no real power.

Shortly after she left the church alone that day, the eunuchs of the emperor's side rushed to the Mingguang Hall and brought with them the emperor's edict reprimanding her. The news of her competing with King Yixing for a musician in the church had reached the emperor's ears, and it would not be long before she would marry into the General's Palace, how could the emperor tolerate her misdeeds.

Xie Man was punished with a grounded foot and was imprisoned for seven or eight days in a row.

One afternoon it rained, and few people like it, but Xie Man is an exception. The sound of raindrops falling from the sky was like some kind of string, and she found a Yaoqin and twisted it with the beat of the rain falling.

In the rain, a white-clad teenager held up an umbrella and slowly walked in the direction of the sound of the piano.

He did not enter the temple, but stood under the window and called out to Xie Man: "Princess." ”

"Shang Ziqing?" Xie Man squinted at him, "Why did you come to my Bright Light Hall, didn't you want to?" ”

"The princess was troubled by me, and my heart was troubled, so I came to visit." The young man's voice is clear and gentle, and the tail note is as soft as the raindrops falling at this time, and it is difficult to determine.

"Be melancholy."

Shang Ziqing was not ashamed or embarrassed, and said, "I really came here just to visit the princess." Since the princess is all right, I am gone. ”

"King Yixing is talentless and virtuous, don't you feel disgusted when you play the piano for him?"

Princess, I am a, who can I hate? He replied, "You are elegant and noble, and king Yixing is rude and clumsy, but for me, they are all the same." ”

"But you dare to rebel against me." Xie Man sneered.

Shang Ziqing shook his head, and his eyes looked straight into Xie Man's eyes: "The princess will not kill me, at least-- " He laughed lightly, "The princess is reluctant to my qin." The princess is a lover of the aegean. ”

"Can you tell what I'm just playing?"

"It's waiting."

"Waiting?"

"The princess is waiting for someone to appear in her heart, and your piano sound seems to be leisurely and loose, but it is actually anxious."

"The more you know me, the more I want to kill you." Xie Man stood up, a hand reached out of the window, and clasped it on the teenager's throat, "What is the reason why you don't want to follow me?" ”

"People like me, of course, want a long life and a hundred years of prosperity and wealth. Although the princess is expensive, she is only a poor person who can't even save herself. ”

His voice was so good that he spoke this shameless and uttered a gentle tone of a thousand turns. Xie Man took a deep breath, gave him a slap, and scolded, "Roll." ”

Four

Soon after, the fourth set of wedding dresses was sent over again, this time Xie Man did not move the scissors again, and let the maids change into wedding dresses for her.

Through the mirror, Xie Man saw the occasional pity in the maid's eyes.

These maids were taking pity on her.

What about the golden branches and jade leaves, there are still no branches to rely on, and it is difficult to find good people.

The general was old enough to be her father. This poor military general was illiterate, made his career by military merit, and marrying a royal woman could elevate his rank, and the reason why he chose Xie Man was only because he heard that Xie Man was the most beautiful one of the Xie clan.

What Shang Ziqing said that day was not wrong, she was indeed in a state of restlessness. The wedding date was approaching day by day, and she waited for someone to save her, but unfortunately that person never appeared. So she became more and more reticent.

The female officials thought that she had finally understood things, and they were all relieved.

"The princess hasn't been to the church lately?"

"That's not where a princess should go."

"Did you hear that?" The musician whom the princess appreciated a few days ago, introduced by King Yixing, went to His Majesty. ”

In the small talk of the female officials, she heard familiar names again.

"What's going on?" Xie Man asked.

The female official replied, "That man, born with a beautiful and weak appearance, but his ambitions are amazing." His Majesty was only thirteen years old and had little experience, and he intended to make this man Lecheng . ”

"And later?"

"Later, I heard that this merchant musician was from Shu, so I gave up."

The Shu land was divided for a hundred years, and it was only a few months ago that it was incorporated into the territory of the dynasty. There are still frequent disturbances among the remnants of the Shu state between the Wushan Mountains, and it is no wonder that the emperor did not dare to appoint the Shu people as officials.

Shang Ziqing's Jinling official speech was really very good, so good that she did not expect that he was actually a Shu person.

Near the wedding date, the emperor finally lifted her ban. The maid advised her to go out to relax, but she did not agree or object, and was helped out of the Mingguang Hall like a walking dead.

Slowly along the Royal River, the sound of the seven-stringed piano was heard in the wind.

She didn't know who the person playing the piano was, but the first thing that came to her mind was Shang Ziqing. After listening closely for a moment, her face changed slightly.

The sound of the piano is disturbing, hiding a vague intention to kill.

Xie Man looked around, and the place where the sound of the piano came from was the Zichen Hall where the Heavenly Son lived.

At this moment, the sound of the piano stopped.

Xie Man didn't know what was happening, but he suddenly panicked for no reason.

She sped in the direction of the Purple Palace, and by the time she got there, the Purple Palace was in disarray, with the guards shouting to catch the Assassin.

The person who was assassinated was, of course, the emperor. The assassin, on the other hand, is Shang Ziqing.

Xie Man staggered back a few steps, then turned around and left.

She didn't want to escape the bloodshed here, but she wanted to go to Shang Ziqing.

The Purple Palace where Tianzi lived, no one was more familiar with it than her. She lifted the hem of her skirt and searched every place in the Purple Palace as fast as she could, while avoiding the guards.

Perhaps it was the blessing of the heavens, she actually saw Shang Ziqing before those guards.

He hid behind a rockery, covered in blood, clutching a dagger in his hand.

"Princess Liyang?" The massive amount of blood loss had brought him to the point of near unconsciousness.

Xie Man looked at such a weak Shang Ziqing and remained silent for a long time. The sound of the guards' armor tapping came from far and near, and they would soon find it.

She walked in the direction of the guards and said, "There are no assassins here."

On that day, Shang Ziqing escaped the disaster, xie man saved him, and hid him in the Mingguang Hall where he lived. When ShangZi woke up, he found himself lying in a dimly lit warm cabinet. Because he did not dare to ask the imperial doctor, Xie Man personally bandaged his wound.

"Why assassinate the king?" She asked, her voice cold.

"I am a Shu person. It's normal for a slave to want revenge. ”

"Wouldn't it be any harm to lose your life for this?"

"Yes."

Xie Man was silent for a moment and said, "I should have guessed it earlier." In your piano, there is a kind of unwilling emotion, even when playing the sound of melancholy, there is a sense of loneliness. ”

"It is not surprising that my relatives, homeland, and future have been destroyed in one fell swoop, and it is not surprising that I want to cut myself off by assassinating the enemy." Shang Ziqing sneered, "It's strange why the princess wants to save me." I was a Shu man or an assassin who assassinated the emperor, and if the princess didn't hand me over, she would cause trouble for herself. ”

"Do you have to know why?"

"Not necessarily."

Xie Man bowed his head and whispered a word in his ear.

She said, "I'm taking pity on myself. ”

Five

Xie Man was not close to the current emperor.

She was the daughter of the late Emperor Ming, and at the age of seven, Emperor Ming was killed by people, and then three emperors were successively installed.

"My princess is not much different from you, a slave of the country." Xie Man smiled lightly and said, "I will marry the Great General soon, you know." ”

"I know."

"Do you think we're a match?"

"If you don't match well, you have to ask yourself." But—" Shang Zi paused, "you don't like him, do you?" ”

"I had to marry him."

The person who wanted to marry her was a great general, and in the court, even the emperor could not disobey this person.

When Xie Man was seven years old, the person who had rebelled from the border areas and attacked all the way to Jinling was the current great general, and he sent Xie Man's father with a glass of poisonous wine, and then several tianzi were abolished by him. The power of the dynasty has been controlled by this person for many years, and he is the nameless emperor of the country.

"Even the person who started the war against Shu was actually him." You killed my nephew, but you killed me wrong. No one knows when he will be unable to hold back his self-proclaimed status as emperor, but he will certainly usurp the throne. When the time comes, I will be like you. ”

Xie Man spent an evening detailing to Shang Ziqing the vicissitudes of the palace over the past ten years, the life and death of the king, and the glory and disgrace of the royal family.

Shang Ziqing was not familiar with her, but only he could understand the suppressed despair in her heart at this time.

"You saved me because you hoped that if in the future you would fall into the same fate as me, someone would come to save you?" Shang Ziqing asked.

"Yes." She had been talking all night, her voice hoarse, sounding like she was crying.

Shang Ziqing knew what he should say to comfort her at this time, but he was not the one who could save her.

Ever heard the story of the Rutted Fish? Two fish trapped in the rut, the same disease, support each other to live, but the trapped two fish can not rely on their own or each other's strength to return to the pond, in the end, can only die together.

He held out his hand to her, but finally let it go.

"Our lives are really like that."

The next day, Xie Man learned that the little emperor was not dead, but only seriously injured. Xie Man needed to marry as scheduled, and the empress dowager sent a female official to teach Xie Man the etiquette of marriage, and she restrained her former wayward arrogance and behaved like a puppet in front of the female official.

Shang Ziqing hid in the ear room across the wall from her, silently listening to her voice.

She seemed to choose obedience, only Shang Ziqing knew that as the wedding date approached, Xie Man could not sleep every night, and the fear of the future almost overwhelmed her.

When he couldn't sleep, Xie Man would come to Shang Ziqing, who was not angry every time she woke up from her dream, and sat up calmly, and the two sat together under the moon and chatted. Shang Ziqing's voice was excellent, and listening to him, Xie Man's mood could gradually stabilize.

Ten days before Xie Man got married, she asked Shang Ziqing a question: "I can't hide you all the time." Have you thought about what to do? ”

"I don't know. I care more about your future than this. ”

Xie Man's heart trembled.

"I'm worried that you'll be wronged when you get married." Shang Zi said, "You are not a good person, don't do anything stupid." ”

"I don't really care what kind of person I'm going to marry." Xie Man had lost all the publicity in the past, she was lying on the window ledge, her eyes shining under the moon, "I am a princess, and I should do my duty by the people." I can be married to a foreigner and a relative, or I can be used as a tool to win over the chancellor. What I can't accept is that no one can save my motherland, the King of Yixing, how he is, you know, so he is considered to be the top son of the clan. I was afraid that after I married into the General's Mansion, there would be no one to help Xie Shi anymore. ”

"You're too tired, go and rest." Shang Ziqing pulled out a messy sideburn for her.

"In a few days I'll find a way to send you out of the palace."

"Out of the palace?"

"Throughout the dynasties, after the fall of each dynasty, there has always been no shortage of loyal and righteous soldiers who died and martyred the country, but more people still chose to live. You've done your best. ”

"So... Princess you? ”

When this woman first saw him, she also said that a slave like him should die. But now, she was actually trying to help him live.

What about herself? And who can help her live?

"Me?" Xie Man looked at the moon outside the window and said something of unclear meaning, "I am a princess." ”

Six

After that night, Shang Ziqing disappeared.

Maybe it was because he didn't trust her, or maybe it was because he had other plans.

But Xie Man didn't have the energy to pay any more attention to him. She was about to get married, and after marriage, she should try to please her husband, so that when Xie Guozuo was usurped, she could avoid the fate of being killed, and if she was lucky, she could even become an empress.

On the third day before she got married, she heard a message. The great general personally went to the Purple Palace with the intention of snatching the jade seal from the emperor's hand.

Xie Man immediately rushed out of the Mingguang Hall. The emperor was estranged from her by blood and had given this aunt to the general for the sake of his own throne, but when he was humiliated, Xie Man did not hesitate to choose to defend the Son of Heaven.

The jade seal symbolizes the supreme authority and the last dignity of the royal family, and since the great general intends to take the jade seal, it means that he is not far from deposing the emperor.

Inside the Purple Palace, a group of warriors surrounded the young emperor and half-unsheathed their sabers one by one. The emperor was frightened and faceless, but the last pride in his bones still made him hold Yuxi in his arms and curl up in the corner of the dragon chair.

One of the warriors couldn't hold back and went straight to the heavenly son. Xie Man pounced on the little emperor and shouted, "Be bold! How dare you be rude to Your Majesty! ”

"Princess Liyang?"

"The Xie royal family, there is only a woman who is still a little bloody."

"Yo, isn't this our general's future mother-in-law?" Why don't you help your husband's family? ”

Mockery came from all directions, and the men looked at her aggressively or maliciously.

Xie Man tried his best to maintain a standing position, his fingertips trembling slightly. The General looked at her playfully, Huo Ran waved his hand, and several generals pounced on her to try to pull Xie Man away.

This was the most embarrassing time in Xie Man's life, when she was fighting and crying like a city shrew. However, she couldn't do anything at all, and could only watch the emperor fall from the throne, and the jade seal that had been inherited in Xie's hands for more than two hundred years was pinched by the great general and enjoyed.

No one could help her.

No one in guiqi gongqing, hundreds of thousands of clans, and the common people of the world could help her. In the doomed and hopeless dead end, only she is still stubbornly resisting, ridiculous and pitiful.

Suddenly, a feather arrow burst through the air.

Blood splashed on Xie Man's eyes, and she saw the great general who was still invincible in front of her a moment ago and fall down with his chest covered.

She had hoped so many times that this rogue thief would die. Now that he's really dead, who killed him? Who killed him! At this moment, Xie Man wanted to laugh, and he wanted to cry.

The hall was in chaos.

assassin! assassin! People exclaimed.

After a moment of stunnedness, a name suddenly appeared in Xie Man's mind.

Shang Ziqing. It must be Shang Ziqing.

She got up from the ground and ran out of the temple without hesitation. Soon she saw him, and he was outside the temple, with a crossbow in his hand, and the guards rushed forward from all directions to keep him firmly in check.

Three days later, Xie Man managed to go to Zhao Prison and met Shang Ziqing.

"I ask you... What is it like to be destroyed? ”

"Huh?"

"Is it really that painful to destroy the country?" Is it painful enough to give up anything, as long as you can take revenge? Xie Man roared. The person who entered the prison had no possibility of coming out alive, and this time she could no longer save him, "Your homeland can't come back!" You could have married, you could have children, you could have seen more people and things! Why don't you listen to me, why don't you let go of your ridiculous obsession! ”

Shang Ziqing looked at her and smiled: "Remember what I said?" We share the same destiny. ”

Xie Man's pupils shrunk.

"That's right." Shang Ziqing approached her and said softly, "I was once a prince." ”

He was born as noble as Xie Man, enjoyed full honor, and was high above.

"Shang Ziqing is not my real name, if you are willing to bother to collect information, you will know that in the last battle of the fall of the Shu kingdom a few months ago, the royal family of the Shu kingdom was slaughtered, and afterwards the corpses were sorted out, but there was one less fourth prince."

Xie Man held on to the fence, and his body slowly collapsed.

Of course, she knew that the whereabouts of the fourth prince of the Shu Kingdom were unknown, and there had always been someone tracking down this person. Now that Shang Ziqing has been arrested... Then during the interrogation, his identity will definitely be revealed. There were so many people involved in the battle against Shu, there was always someone who had seen the four princes of the Shu kingdom.

"I'll never be able to live a peaceful life." He said, "I shed the blood of the former Shu royal family, people can't let go of me, and I won't let go of myself." ”

He reached out from the fence and gently stroked Xie Man's hair: "So, does the princess understand?" ”

"Understood... What the? Xie Man's voice was very hoarse.

"You're leaving here now and pretending you never knew me." He said, "Although the great general was killed by me, his men are still there, right?" You should try to keep yourself. ”

Abandon me.

This was his last instruction to Xie Man.

"The two of us, neither of us can save anyone... Do you understand? ”

I see.

Xie Man closed his eyes weakly, which was a compromise on this cruel world.

Seven

After the death of the great general, Jinling was in turmoil for a while. In the end, his soldiers and horses were inherited by the most powerful general of the general's lifetime. The new generals did not have the time and energy to coerce the emperor into abdicating. Xie Man found him and offered the assurance of yuxi and allegiance.

Her marriage to the new general was also set, six months later. The new general coveted her beauty, but he was also worried about the world's leisurely mouth, thinking of waiting until the limelight subsided before holding a wedding.

However, Xie Man's request was to complete the marriage as soon as possible.

So the wedding was scheduled half a month later, extremely hastily and hastily. In this half a month, Xie Man tried his best to delay Shang Ziqing's death.

"Why are you so bitter?" Shang Ziqing asked her, "You can't save me." ”

Xie Man did not refute it, so he stopped talking.

Finally, Xie Man put on her wedding dress on a certain day in mid-autumn, and before getting married, she first went to the Zichen Palace to bid farewell to the emperor. The two nephews, who had been discordant, were relatively speechless, and when Xie Man left the Zi Chen Palace, two lines of tears fell from the little emperor's eyes.

The mighty princess honor guard drove out of the palace gate, the road leading to the General's Mansion was closed to pedestrians, and the long street was silent, only the drums of the dowry echoed.

Shang Ziqing also heard this joy.

The princess's marriage procession happened to pass through the prison.

He leaned his head against the wall, as close as he could to her. From now on, she will not be princess Liyang, but the general's wife.

At this moment, the music suddenly stopped.

Then he heard the sound of Jingo.

He suddenly had a bad guess -

The sound of the door being slammed open was like thunder, and Shang Ziqing looked up and saw Xie Man.

She was also dressed in a wedding dress, dressed in a magnificent dress, and her beauty was thrilling, and she held a long sword in her hand, and blood splashed on her rouge-smeared cheeks.

"I'll save you." She said.

Behind her was a blinding sunlight that shone brightly against her, just as they had when they first met.

"You're crazy! Come on! ”

The heavily armed guards behind her crossed her and covered his nose and mouth with an anesthetic towel, and he struggled desperately, but his consciousness was blurred little by little.

Xie Man crouched down in front of him, holding his hand, his palm warm.

"No... Want to..." Shang Ziqing grabbed Xie Man's sleeve with his last strength, he had already guessed what Xie Man was going to do.

"Goodbye. Hopefully I'll see you again. ”

"Don't... No! The sleeve that he was clutching between his fingers withdrew a little bit, and finally left him completely.

Xie Man whispered something in his ear, and then smiled, a smile that was gentler than ever, not half sad.

Xie Man sent him twenty elite iron horses to escort him out of Jinling.

After that, he returned to Shudi and stayed there.

In his first year, he racked his brains to hide his whereabouts.

The following year, he tried to contact his father and brother's old ministry.

In the third year, he began to take revenge.

In the following years, he traveled from north to south of the river, also attacked the city strategically, and also fled in defeat, and for ten years, he tried everything to return to the city.

tail

Jinling City was broken on a night when it was raining lightly.

Shangzi Qing's horse broke into the city gate and galloped on the long street. Ten years later, the street scene is still the same, and things are not people.

Many things happened in ten years, the Xie throne was eventually usurped, and then the Jinling blood flowed into a river, and the throne changed its surname several times in a few years.

Shang Ziqing only cared about one thing, that is, whether Xie Man had been disturbed over the years.

When dawn came, he found Xie Man.

On a flat ground on the northern outskirts of Jinling City, there is an inconspicuous lonely grave with four words engraved on the tombstone - the tomb of Xie Man.

She died ten years ago, the day she got married.

"When Li Yang died, her head was in a different place, and I secretly stitched up her body and buried it here." The man guarding the tomb was the former King of Yixing, who was deposed from his title and has been living as a commoner ever since, guarding his cousin's tomb.

"You asked me to relay it to Li Yang, and I told her at her grave." Li Yang finally waited for you, but unfortunately it was too late. ”

Shangzi Qingmuran knelt down in front of the grave, and the rain fell on his face, cold.

"I knew she would wait for me," Shang Ziqing said, "and I always believed she was waiting for me." ”

In the past ten years, he had survived countless dangers by relying on this belief, and he did not dare to die easily, for fear that Xie Man would be disappointed.

Now they are finally reunited, separated by a thick layer of graves.

"Although the world is in chaos, Jinling is not an airtight iron city, and you can't not know that she is dead." King Yixing cried uncontrollably, "Why don't you save her!" You should take her with you! Ten years ago, on the day of Li Yang's marriage, after she rescued you from prison, she rushed to the General's Mansion with seven hundred cavalry disguised as wedding honor guards! At that time, Tianzi had already given her the Tiger Charm of the Yulin Army, and she could have gone to escape! ”

Ten years ago, the little emperor was not willing to continue to be a puppet of the new general, and planned to make a desperate bet, he gave Xie's only remaining troops to the only trusted aunt Xie Man. Xie Man's marriage was the best opportunity to raid the General's Mansion.

Xie Man agreed. Because she didn't want to watch Xie Shi go to the end, because that was her only chance to save Shang Ziqing.

The twenty cavalry that escorted Shang Ziqing were transferred from the seven hundred men. The only time she faked public welfare was used on Shang Ziqing.

Shang Ziqing leaned lightly on the tombstone, but did not cry.

"This monument is wrong." Shang Ziqing took out a short knife from his waist, and on top of "Xie Man", he slowly carved four words, "Princess Liyang".

Tomb of Princess Xie Man of Liyang.

She was a princess, and even if she was deposed after her death, she was still a princess. Shang Ziqing returned, he was now the master of Jinling, he would order her reputation to be restored, to record all the deeds of her life in qingshi, and he would move her to the cemetery of the imperial family of the past, so that she could enjoy the incense of the world.

Ten years ago, Xie Man said something like this to him-

"Even a fish dying in a rut doesn't have to sit still. In Shuchuan, your homeland, there are remnants who constantly rebel, you are the crown prince, you can rule them. I can't leave Jinling, but I can send you out.

"I'm Princess Xie, and I'm going to do what I have to do." I am willing to fight for Xie's death, and I also hope that this turmoil can buy time for your escape.

"I had been waiting for someone who could save me and later found out that I didn't need to wait. You can save me, and I can save you. ”

She leaned over in his ear and said the last thing she said to him was—

"I'll wait for you."

Now he returns as promised.