Qingchuan History

Chapter 708
Outside the secret passage, Yunshui Imperial Palace, corpses are strewn all over the field, and blood is suspended in the air, condensing out an unreal fishy smell.

After all, the blood on the battlefield is different from that in the palace.Xiao Ben thought silently.He staggered back to the place where he had been standing in Kuntai Hall.

Pingduhou leaned on the opposite side of the long desk, eyes still open.

Zhuang Wangren was at the doorstep outside the palace, he had just confirmed that he had stopped living.

Farther away, there was the rumble of soldiers and horses, and the cold winter night swept in. He knew it was the coalition army, and he glanced at Pingduhou's unrepentant face.

The injuries all over his body showed his best efforts.

Hegong was killed and wounded, and the few remaining silver-armored Qi soldiers showed that Daqi was helping Baiguo with heavy losses.

He staggered out again when Xirun had just passed through the atrium in front of the dormitory.

It's midnight.

It was very risky to return to the main hall, but she could not let go of this possible "last moment" when the fighting stopped.

What she saw was Xiao Ben's back.

And the bun of Pingduhou who was carried out on a stretcher—it was already messed up, and many broken hairs were hanging down and fluttering with the stretcher.She suddenly forgot about her eldest sister's face.

Emperor Zhentu still deliberately lied about secret edicts in order to wait for her to come back, and she will never be able to ask her.

Further away are more pools of blood, unknown faces and eyes that are either open or closed.Another person was put on a stretcher among the lying bodies, like King Zhuang.

The clan of the Bai Kingdom, those who can talk and move, have all died tonight.

The bleakness and desolation seemed to be the collapse of the whole country, she lost all strength for a moment, and suddenly lost all the joy of survival and victory.

So much so that the "last moment" that she regards as the criterion for this campaign suddenly seemed ironic—it was their last moment, or it was also her last moment.

"Hervet, be safe, and follow my subordinates to Yinhuang Terrace."

Everything was silent, and in the depths of the winter night, the sound that suddenly rose to her ears made her tremble all over.

But the voice was clearly familiar and friendly, before she turned her head she thought it was Xue Li, but when she turned to see Shen Ji's face, she felt it was just a dream.

Of course not dreaming.Shen Ji disappeared when he was at the border, of course he was ordered by Gu Xinglang, of course he would appear here.He is Gu Xinglang's last guarantee and confidence in Yunshui.

"When did your lord arrive?"

Huge curtains concealed the figures of the two, and the main position had been moved to Yinhuang Terrace along with the corpses of the two pillars of the Duan family, so that the conversation was safer than before, and the empty Kuntai Hall became a ruin that no one cares about.

"this morning."

"Always in Kuntai Hall?"

"Yes."

"Surprisingly, I have avoided many palace guards' restrictions."

"Shen Ji enters the palace gate and does not leave the gate."

Duan Xirun probably understood, nodded and said, "I'll go with your lord."

The darkness in the middle of the night made the dense forest stretching throughout the palace look like a ghost.Only the lights on the Yinhuang Terrace gradually lit up, and it was messy, and it looked like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark night.

Xiao Ben stood on a high platform, with several corpses beside him.Marquis Pingdu, King Zhuang, King Rong, Duke Hua.Duan Xirun followed Shen Ji in the canopy of tall trees, he couldn't see clearly, he guessed it only because of Xiao Ben's resounding rhetoric about Bai's civil strife and the death of all the clan kings.

This tree is exactly the one where she and Ruan Xueyin leaned together on the summer night when the magic lamp shined on Yunshui.One night in the country, one night in purgatory, but only one round of winter and spring.

After listening to Xiao Ben's speech, she said that the life and death of the female monarch is uncertain, and the country's society is in turmoil. The order of Lord Qi is also out of friendship, and she will work with the remaining soldiers of the Bai Kingdom to protect the peace of the people.

Even though it was midnight, the people must have heard it.

The gate of Yunshui City has been opened, and the coalition army is marching in. You must have heard it.

She lost her hearing again and couldn't hear what everyone was talking about. She saw Xiao Ben descending from the Phoenix Terrace all the way to the outside of the palace gate, as if handing over to several generals of the coalition forces.

Farther away, it's really like watching a silent show.

"What exactly are you going to do?" She asked angrily, even her own voice could not be heard clearly.

"Subordinates are not clear."

"My lord has been in rhyme water all day long."

Shen Ji fell silent. "The residences of the princes and dignitaries in the city have been controlled, it's a matter of the day. At this moment," he squinted his eyes to look at the scene outside the palace gate in the dark, "we should divide up the troops and garrison them in the name of towning the capital and protecting the people, blocking the entry and exit of people. for,"

"In order to catch and kill me when I show up." Therefore, Gu Xinglang repeatedly told him to sneak in, and he couldn't show up until the end. "Qi State's army occupies Yunshui, and its own soldiers are kept in the dark. The clan is in decline, and important officials are held hostage. The people don't know the truth, and they only want to help the army. But in this situation," Duan Xirun laughed, "how is it different from a subjugated country? Your Excellency As Qi Chen, why don't you cut me off now to decide the end? Take my head, go out and put it with my uncles and sisters, and the Duan clan will be destroyed."

Shen Ji still stared at the city view outside the palace gate.All the soldiers in the city are being assembled and purged, and the squads are divided and dispersed; the doors and windows of the houses are occasionally opened from the inside, and it is the bold people who listen to the order outside and come out to watch the movement. "Your Majesty sent his subordinates to protect the daughter, Jun Zhouquan." Fang Fang replied after reading these.

"My lord, don't you think it's time to take this opportunity to kill Bai?"

"The subordinates only believe in the king's decision."

Duan Xirun thought for a while, "He brought Mr. Shen into Jiji, and followed him all the time. He also gave him a whole set of views on the world." Brothers are like masters and apprentices, and they are even more like monarchs and ministers, as it should be.

Without Uncle Li leading the team to Mount Buzhou, he would not have arrived at Jidu.In the first two years after arriving in Jidu, he lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion because he had to pass a strict examination to accompany the Ninth Prince, and his first view of the world actually came from Ji Ping. 【1】

But who is as good as Gu Xinglang.Shen Ji thought in his heart.People's faith and persistence ultimately come from the judgment of right and wrong, black and white, the accumulation of time and depth, integrity, light, and looking up to the world, after all, are the most convincing and yearning things.

He raised his eyes to the northwest, also trying to get hints about the "last moment".No matter what season, no matter day or night, the Yunshui sky curtain is mostly clear and rarely covered by clouds-the fireworks from the border of Qinan can be seen to some extent, even if it is just a colorful shadow.

Before the fireworks arrive, the magic lamps all over the city arrive first.

When the first lamp rose slowly, Xirun saw it.

Then more and more, vertically to the sky, it is very similar to the scene of going to Xiazi Yeyun Shuicheng Yao.

Repeat the old trick?

Shen Ji didn't expect it, he closed his eyes and looked closer, and suddenly remembered that by the Hulan Lake in the early spring of last year, the four wives and Chunfeng released the magic lamp together.

A hundred birds are really dazzling towards the phoenix.The burning of Mrs. Yu's old zither in the air is also impressive.But he remembers Chunfengyang's pair of butterflies most, the two butterflies playing in the sky, and after cutting the long line, he talked with her for a while by the lake in the spring night.

He said that people have a choice in any situation.

She retorted, saying that people cannot live by reason alone, because they have hearts, feelings, beliefs and obsessions.

She spoke so well.All the moments spent with Chunfeng constitute his spring night, lonely but warm enough to comfort his whole life.

The magic lamp in front of him began to annihilate in such solitary warmth.

The annihilation fell immediately, one after another, and the people in the streets and alleys who looked out of the houses or went out to wait and see began to exclaim.

In the previous summer, Ruan Xueyin used the magic lamp as a command to help Duan Xirun ascend to the Phoenix throne.

This winter, the magic lamp shines on the imperial city again, but it falls like a meteor. The speed and the number are far more shocking than the slow rise.

It is indeed an old trick, but it is repaying the other person with the other way.

[1] 229 No Zhou Qingwei

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