Sun Xinyi put down the car curtain in her hand and looked at Nangong Yue, only to see that the other party's brows were tightly furrowed, and for the first time a flustered expression appeared on her clear and beautiful face.
"How come it came so fast?" Nangong Yue tightly clutched the handkerchief in her hand, and murmured, "Didn't they in Youyiying find that the Nanliang army is coming? It's impossible..."
Han Qixia beside her couldn't hide her panic, she grabbed Nangong Yue's hand and said, "Yue'er, He..." She wanted to ask Fu Yunhe where he was now, and if he was okay...
But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't continue asking.
Where can Fu Yunhe be as the captain of the Shenarm Battalion of the Southern Border Army? Naturally, we must stick to the city gate!
Nangong Yue patted Han Qixia's hand and gave her a comforting smile, but even her own expression was a little dazed. Sun Xinyi, who was sitting across from them, naturally saw and heard everything. Even if she hesitated a little before, it disappeared at this moment.
"Miss Su," Nangong Yue managed to pull herself together and said, "Today's situation is really not suitable for going out of the city to pay homage to Master Sun and those soldiers who died in battle. Why don't we go back first?"
Sun Xinyi showed a look of hesitation, and finally bowed her body and said: "Concubine Shizi, forgive Xinyi for being bold, even if she can't go outside the city to worship my late father and brother today, Xinyi still wants to go to the temple to pay my respects to my late father and brother." Put a stick of incense, so I can ask them to bless Yanding City in the Spirit of Heaven..." As she said that, Sun Xinyi's eyes turned slightly red, and a layer of mist appeared in them, as if recalling the tragedy when the city was broken.
Nangong Yue sighed, nodded with a little feeling, and said, "...Miss Sun is right. I'm new here, and I'm not very familiar with Yanding City. I don't know if there are any efficacious temples nearby?"
Han Qixia didn't object either.
Sun Xinyi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said, "Concubine Shizi, not far from here, there is a small temple, which is quite effective."
She explained to Caiwei, and Caiwei went to briefly explain the location of the temple to the coachman. Soon, the carriage started driving again amidst the coachman's yelling...
Probably because the war is critical now, the inside of the carriage is much quieter than before, there are no voices, only the boring sound of horseshoes and wheels echoing in the air.
"Brother Coachman!"
After the carriage turned right into an empty street, Caiwei suddenly opened the curtain and leaned out half of her body, and said with a smile: "This is a carved plum made by my girl. Brother, do you want to taste it?" A cyan handkerchief with several carved plums on it.
The coachman was stunned for a moment, and flattered to accept it: "Thank you, miss, thank you, miss!"
He casually picked a piece of carved plum and threw it into his mouth. The carved plum was fragrant, crispy and sweet, sour and sweet, refreshing the heart, and it shocked people's spirits in his mouth.
Caiwei swallowed her saliva, and said again with a smile on her face: "Brother, take all of these..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw the driver shake his head, then suddenly fell to the left...
Caiwei hurriedly stretched out her hand to catch his heavy body, turned her head and whispered to the carriage: "Girl, it's done..." She said, pushing the driver aside with great difficulty, and then sat down on her own. On the coachman's seat, he raised his whip high.
"Snapped-"
The horse neighed, and turned towards a narrow and deserted alley under her urging.
The first step seems to be successful.
Caiwei let out a little breath, but then her heart rose again.
The real test begins now! Since the day the city was destroyed half a year ago, I and the girl have nowhere to go...
"Da da da… "
The sound of wheels reverberated in the narrow alley, and the carriage behind was already a mess.
The three girls fell crookedly on the carpet of the carriage, only Sun Xinyi, who was pretty and pale, was still trying to sit calmly.
boom! boom!
boom! boom! boom…
The rapid heartbeat echoed in Sun Xinyi's ears, and her heart beat faster and faster. She only felt her heart beating like a drum, and her back was already soaked with sweat.
It's done!
She did it!
On the one hand, she was so nervous that she almost collapsed, but on the other hand, seeing Nangong Yue and Han Qixia's motionless, weak and pitiful appearance, she felt a faint pleasure in her heart.
Some people are born with a good life, just like Nangong Yue; some people just accept their fate and drift with the tide, like Han Qixia; some people will never give up no matter what kind of situation they fall into, just like themselves.
Back then, since she had saved her own life, she would not give up today, she wanted to live on, and she wanted to live better and better...
In Sun Xinyi's complicated state of mind, the carriage drove faster and faster, the master and servant remained silent, their faces twitched tightly.
Sun Xinyi was a little restless, looking down at the three of Nangong Yue who were lying on the carpet for a while, and then opened the curtains and looked outside, anxious: Why haven't you arrived yet? !
After a stick of incense, the carriage finally stopped in front of a house in the southwest of the city driven by Caiwei. Now the city is empty, and the vicinity of the house is empty and there are no people. When the carriage stopped slowly, The surroundings turned into a dead silence, as if being in an empty city.
squeak-
The people in the house seemed to have heard the movement outside. The door was opened from the inside. A thin man in black shorts stared at the carriage behind Caiwei with piercing eyes. Sun Xinyi slightly opened the curtain from the carriage, facing The skinny man nodded slightly.
The other party eagerly made a gesture to signal them to come in quickly, beaming with joy, thinking: Now, I have made a great contribution!
The carriage drove into the house with the monotonous sound of the wheels, and then there was another "squeak" and the door was closed by the skinny man.
After the carriage stopped in the courtyard behind the gate, Sun Xinyi almost couldn't wait to get out of the carriage, and impatiently said to the skinny man, "He's inside!" Her attitude was a little rude.
The skinny man didn't care either, he barely suppressed the joy in his heart, opened the curtain of the carriage, looked into the carriage, and said to Sun Xinyi: "You have done a good job, as long as the princess of Zhennan falls into our hands …”
His words stopped abruptly, and his eyes widened in disbelief.
How can it be? !
In the carriage, the three of Nangong Yue opened their eyes at some point and sat up. The three girls looked at the thin man with cold and bright eyes.
The skinny man's heart sank all of a sudden.
Could it be that…
A thought came to his mind, were they deceived by Sun Xinyi? !
The skinny man shrank his pupils and looked at Sun Xinyi in disbelief.
How dare this woman! She did such a thing that was beyond the law of nature, did she think Dayu could tolerate it
but don't want to-
Sun Xinyi was even more scared than him, her small face was as pale as paper, without a trace of blood, her whole body was trembling like fallen leaves in the cold wind, dripping with cold sweat...
This woman is so useless!
The skinny man understood in an instant that Sun Xinyi thought that she had schemed against the princess of Zhennan Wang Shizi, but she didn't know that her words and deeds had already revealed her flaws, and she was plotted by the other party instead!
Although this woman is cruel enough, she is extremely stupid!
The skinny man's thoughts were spinning. Since this is a trap, the house must have been surrounded by a large number of southern border troops. Now, he can only use this as a bargaining chip for himself in this desperate situation. Found a glimmer of life in it...
Thinking about it, the skinny man jumped onto the carriage nimbly, and grabbed Nangong Yue like lightning.
Baihui smiled coldly and stood in front of Nangong Yue. At the same time, the coachman who was leaning on the side suddenly opened his eyes, and slashed at the skinny man's wrist.
Nangong Yue in the carriage said indifferently: "Xiao Ying..."
Before the words finished, a tall and ghostly figure appeared behind the skinny man. Xiao Ying unceremoniously kicked his lower back...
The skinny man felt the strong wind from behind, and a donkey rolled away to avoid it, and fell off the carriage. After rolling half a circle, he saw a black shadow flashing in front of him, and another young man in black appeared in front of him. Looking at him with a smile, the next moment, the other party has already made a move.
"Click—"
With that crisp sound, a person's neck was twisted abruptly like this, and then softly tilted down, those eyes protruded outwards, staring wide open, unrepentant...
Like those bright black eyes in memory...
Not far away, Sun Xinyi watched everything that happened from beginning to end. She froze on the spot, and countless images flashed in her mind, killing, corpses, blood flowing into rivers... Those scenes were shocking, like hell on earth...
"Girl..." Caiwei approached Sun Xinyi anxiously, her lips trembling slightly. She wanted to say, girl, they have to escape quickly, if they don't escape, it will be too late.
Caiwei has been serving Sun Xinyi since she was a child, master and servant for many years, just listening to her tone, Sun Xinyi knew what she was thinking, her lips were tightly pressed together.
escape? !
What else is there to escape? !
Although she knows a bit of boxing skills, even if she is dealing with a big man, she may not have a chance of survival, but whether it is this seemingly ordinary and honest coachman, or the two men in black, they are all very skilled. Obviously, they should be The secret guard of the imperial concubine, and he was well prepared, even this spy from Nanliang is no match for them, let alone a mere woman of his own!
I lost!
Although I tried my best to survive, I still couldn't avoid death...
She is not reconciled! She just wants to live!
She doesn't want to be like her aunt and younger sisters, who will spend the rest of her life with a white silk without any struggle. She is only fifteen years old, and she has just reached the age of hairpin, which is the most brilliant and fragrant age.
She wants to live, even if she steps on someone else's corpse...
Sun Xinyi bit her lower lip, and asked in a difficult tone: "Concubine Shizi, when did I show off?" Was it because of those carved plums, or was it as early as when she proposed to sacrifice to her late father, or earlier? …
Sun Xinyi's heart was beating like a drum, and she didn't dare to think about it any further.
With Baihui's support, Nangong Yue got out of the carriage, looked directly at Sun Xinyi, and slowly said, "Miss Sun, you know exactly how your nephew died, you know best in your heart!"
Nangong Yue looked indifferent, but there was a forceful spirit in her tone, and the implication was even more frightening.
For a moment, Sun Xinyi felt that everyone's eyes were like knives, which made her feel as if she was stripped naked in public. She thought that she was acting flawlessly, that she was a daughter of the former guard who endured grief, but she didn't expect that she had already exposed her flaws and was foolishly trying to compete with Han Qixia in front of the crown prince...
At this time, Han Qixia also jumped out of the carriage neatly, walked to Nangong Yue, and looked at Sun Xinyi with complicated eyes.
Originally, she just thought that Miss Sun was a bit of a cunning and not worthy of close friendship, so she kept her at a respectful distance, but she didn't think that human nature was far more terrifying than she imagined.
This Miss Sun is not just a simple mind... No, she was too careless. She should have noticed that there was something wrong with this girl Sun's experience when Yanding City was broken.
Thinking of Nangong Yue's mention that the cause of Young Master Sun's death was suspicious that day, especially after finding out that he was not very close to Sun Xinyi on weekdays, but he couldn't leave her for a moment on the day the city was broken... Han Qixia couldn't help sighing: " Miss Sun, your nephew is only two years old..."
This simple sentence hit Sun Xinyi's sore spot thoroughly.
Sun Xinyi's pupils shrank sharply, and her eyes released a cold light like a jackal, which was completely different from her past knowledgeable, gentle and elegant appearance.
At this moment, she no longer wants to hide herself, no longer wants to pretend.
"I just want to live!"
Why did she sacrifice her own life for a child who was only two years old, for a child who knew nothing? !
The more Sun Xinyi thought about it, the more unwilling she became, and he yelled hysterically: "Is it wrong for me to want to live? Have you ever tasted the feeling of a knife being hung around your neck? Have you ever tasted the feeling of stepping on the gate of hell with one foot? Do you have any?" What qualifications do you have to put your beak on me?" Like a concubine, she has been pampered and pampered in this life, and her fingers are not touched by the spring water, and she is pampered by her master like pearls and treasures. I am afraid that she has never bumped into her before, so how would she know what it is? The choice between life and death!
Sun Xinyi repeatedly told herself in her heart that she was not wrong.
Countless images flashed through her mind like ghostly lanterns.
What happened that day is still like yesterday, and every scene is clearly visible. That night, the Nanliang army approached the city, and Yanding City was in danger. After the father and two elder brothers left the mansion to meet the enemy, the aunt, Mrs. Sun, summoned all the female family members of the mansion into the main hall, and stayed there for three days and three nights.
Sun Xinyi knew that her aunt had ordered some white silks to be prepared, and she was prepared for the worst...
They want to die, they are afraid of being humiliated, they are afraid of losing their reputation...
But she doesn't want to die, she wants to give it a go!
Sun Xinyi thought about it carefully, and she knew that if she wanted to survive, her only hope was her nephew Sun Peiling. The father and the two elder brothers were guarding the city gate, and they would not surrender. Once the city was broken, they would probably die. The last bloodline of the Sun family is the nephew Sun Peiling. With the temperament of the aunt, she will definitely try to get someone to take Sun Peiling away and keep the incense of the Sun family. This is her chance.
Therefore, from the second day on, Sun Xinyi tried her best to please her nephew and held him in her arms. If anyone wanted to take him away, she would secretly pinch his flesh and make him cry Make trouble, act like he doesn't want to leave her... For two full days, she served Sun Peiling with all her heart.
Her efforts were not in vain. At the moment when the news of the city's destruction came, the mother-in-law found that she could not take Sun Peiling away from her, and she was afraid that if he cried and made a fuss, he would attract the Nanliang army. she. She swore in front of her aunt and elder sister-in-law Cui that she would do her best to protect Sun Peiling.
At that moment, she was sincere.
After all, with Sun Peiling, she will have a foundation in the future, and she will not be a helpless strand of duckweed.
Her father and elder brother fought against the enemy bravely and sacrificed their lives. After Sun Peiling became a hero, her future must not be a problem, so her aunt will be fine.
The aunt let her take Sun Peiling to hide in a dry well in the backyard, and asked her confidant Wang Momo to cover the dry well with huge stones. The dry well was narrow and dirty, just big enough for her to curl up there with Sun Peiling in her arms, so only two people survived in total—she bought this way of life with fifteen years of obedience and obedience.
However, they were betrayed!
That nasty Wang Momo's family was favored by the Sun's residence, but they were afraid of death after all. In order to save their own and their son's lives, they attracted people from Nanliang.
When a sharp arrow from Nanliang aimed at herself in the well, Sun Xinyi almost thought that she was going to die, but she didn't want that Nanliang coach Yikaluo to appear at a critical moment and gave her a "chance". An enchanted "opportunity"...
A gleaming dagger was thrown at her feet. Sun Xinyi thought that she would hesitate and be afraid, but at that moment she was surprisingly calm. The truth is, when life is at stake, she has no other choice, does she
Either you die, or I die!
Just like this war between Nanjiang and Nanliang...
She still remembered that Sun Peiling cowered timidly, howled with fright, and cried: Big aunt don't want it! Great aunt don't...
Tears and snot were smeared on his round white face, and he looked as pitiful as her favorite puppy.
The weak emotions just flashed by, Sun Xinyi put the dagger into Sun Peiling's chest without hesitation, his dark and bright eyes looked at her without blinking, from begging to crying pain to despair, and then As his aura stopped, those eyes that were once nimble turned gray, and lost all their spirit...
Ikaluo's applause woke her up in confusion, and the other party looked at her with a half-smile, and said sarcastically, the girl deserves to be the daughter of Sun Shoubei!
yes! She is father's daughter. Sun Xinyi said to herself in her heart: Although my father will be angry, he will forgive her. Didn't my father say that she is the eldest daughter who loves me the most? Rather than dying together with Sun Peiling, it's better for her to live well and leave the last trace of blood for the Sun family, isn't it
What Sun Xinyi is most afraid of is that the other party will not believe what he said. After all, Nanliang is in a barbaric land, and he drinks blood, so he doesn't know the meaning of propriety, justice and shame. It must be common for them to go back and forth...
But what she didn't expect was that the head coach of Nanliang was so refreshing that he immediately ordered someone to fish her out of the well and let her go. As for Nanny Wang, she betrayed her master, but it didn't end well. She and her son were beheaded by the people of Nanliang.
When she was sent out of the mansion by a Nanliang lieutenant general, Sun Xinyi accidentally saw Caiwei, poor Caiwei... At that moment, maybe because she couldn't bear it, maybe because she felt sorry for each other, she begged Caiwei from them.
Afterwards, she took Caiwei and pretended to be an ordinary citizen to struggle to survive in the city... It wasn't until Xiao Yi, the son of Zhennan Prince, led troops to break through the city, and Yanding City returned to the control of the Southern Border Army, that she made a comeback up.
Whether it is the current Li Shoubei or his father's old friend in the Southern Border Army, they all take good care of themselves.
She also planned a future for herself.
Just when she thought her life would get better and better, she never expected that the people from Nanliang would appear, with orders from Ikaluo...
It wasn't until then that Sun Xinyi understood why Ikaluo let her go. The other party caught her, so she had to be ordered by him—even if Yanding City was not taken back by Xiao Yi, Ikaluo could still send As an insider, I went to the southern border cities, as long as I made a beautiful speech, no one would doubt her identity.
From the moment she chose the path of "living", the people of Nanliang became a blood leech attached to her body. If she was not full of blood, the other party would never be reconciled!
But she has no choice, even if she knew this earlier, she knew that she would make the same choice without hesitation, even if there was a glimmer of hope, she would live on.