The secret guard found Xiao Xiao in Juxianju.
After Zhuangzhuang left, Xiao Xiao drank a lot more. Hu Huanxi did not leave tonight and stayed here. When she saw the secret guard appear with Murong Jie's handwritten order, her heart sank.
She brought her secret guards to the private room and sternly ordered them to throw Xiao Xiao into the icy lake of Juxianju to wake him up.
Xiao Xiao was fished out while half drunk and half awake. Hu Huanxi squatted beside him and said in a cold voice, "Zhuang Zhuang committed suicide!"
These four words sounded like thunder to Xiao Xiao's ears.
He ran all the way to the princess's mansion and stood at the door, panting. The smell of alcohol from running made him smell, and the pain of sobriety pierced his heart and lungs.
He stood at the door and did not go in. Every time he returned to Beijing, he would come here and linger here, as if he could be very close to her here.
Finally, Prince Li and Prince An, who were shocked by the news, brought him in.
All the sounds in his ears seemed like memories from a previous life, noisy and chaotic. His eyes were unfocused and he didn't know where to look. His body was numb and he walked inside uncontrollably.
People came in and out like a revolving lantern, and he seemed to be in another world.
From the door to the bedside, a distance of dozens of steps, he seemed to be walking to the end of his life.
There were many people, and what caught their eyes was the bright red color on the bed.
She was wearing her wedding dress, lying so quietly on the bed.
He suddenly laughed out loud, and tears fell from his eyes.
That year, he had just finished making the wedding dress, and she tried it on immediately, spinning in front of him like a colorful butterfly, with flying eyes and infinite pride.
"Don't laugh. Does it look good?" She walked over with lotus steps, like a fairy in a dream.
He stretched out his hand, trying to hold her hand, but his hand stopped in mid-air, grasping a handful of air.
A voice in my heart came to my mind: She is dead, what are you still doing alive
He walked over trembling. Murong Jie stepped back, Zi'an stepped back, Qin Zhi Qionghua stepped back because of his desperate and broken eyes.
He had been fighting for many years, and the battlefield was extremely dangerous. He almost died several times, but he just couldn't stop breathing. She was still alive. How could he die while she was still alive
He made great military achievements and rode his horse very far away. On that barren Gobi Desert, he carved "Xiao Xiao loves Zhuang Zhuang" stroke by stroke.
He let his blood seep into those words, the bright red was blinding. The sunset on the battlefield was tragically beautiful, but not as beautiful as the word "strong".
On that occasion, he was trapped in Longteng Mountain, with food and grass cut off. With no other options, he led 5,000 men to charge into a barbarian town. The sounds of swords and spears were endless, and he was determined to die.
In that bloody battle, he killed countless enemies. He was also shot by an arrow and fell to the ground. He thought he was dead. He looked at the crows circling above his head, took out a string of Buddhist beads from his arms, and wrapped it around his wrist. It was a gift from Zhuangzhuang.
"I went to Guanyin Temple to ask for this for you. You can carry it with you from now on. With Guanyin Bodhisattva as your strong support, you don't have to be afraid of anything!"
At that time, he was still a royal guard in the palace.
He has a lot.
That year, he wanted to marry Zhuangzhuang, and the emperor told him that he could marry the princess, but the Xiao family would be stripped of their military titles, demoted to commoners, and forced to withdraw from the capital and not be allowed to enter the capital without the emperor's order.
Moreover, Zhuangzhuang is no longer a princess. Like her Xiao family, she is just a commoner and will never be able to return to Beijing to see her relatives.
Then, the emperor also said, if you want to protect the Xiao family and the princess, you must hurt the princess's heart and marry someone else.
He said, “Well, I won’t marry the princess, and I won’t get married either. I will just protect her forever.”
The emperor said, okay, you go to Liang to protect her, and if you don’t get married, she will marry the prince of Liang.
He made a scene in the imperial study like a madman that day. He disagreed with all the emperor's proposals. Finally, the emperor threw a document at him, a document accusing the Xiao family of colluding with the enemy.
He knew it was a forgery, but this document was enough to chop off the heads of hundreds of people in the Xiao family.
He gave in.
He married Han Qingqiu, and the Xiao family was still a prominent military family, powerful and majestic. The emperor was still the emperor, high above everyone else and without worries.
Only Xiao Xiao and Zhuang Zhuang have lost their hearts and are wandering in this world.
Our hearts are always together, but we can't be together.
Grandfather said, you are the eldest grandson of the Xiao family, and you should shoulder the glory of the family. There is nothing that a man cannot bear, but she is just a woman. There are many people in the world who are better than the princess.
But he only loves that one. No matter how outstanding the others are, what does it have to do with him
None of which he wanted.
He stretched out his slightly trembling hand and gently stroked Zhuangzhuang's cheek. Her face was very cold, as if she was dead. He was no stranger to the dead. Countless people had died at his hands. He had touched many corpses, but none of them made him so heartbroken.
There is no antidote for the rest pill. He has been in the palace for many years and knows it.
He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, Zhuangzhuang, we are together, finally together."
Murong Jie had been looking at him, and when he saw his hand move, he pounced over.
But it was too late, a dagger had already pierced his chest, and blood spurted out.
As a general, he always carried weapons with him. This dagger was given to Zhuangzhuang by the Empress Dowager. There were two daggers in total, one for Murong Jie and one for Zhuangzhuang. Zhuangzhuang gave it to him.
No one expected such a scene to happen. No one expected Xiao Xiao to hurt himself without hesitation and want to die with Zhuangzhuang.
Zi'an went to save Xiao Xiao crying.
Qinzhi and Qionghua cried like tearful people. The three brothers of Prince Li stood in the room, with similar faces and similar expressions, the same grief and anger.
Three imperial doctors and Zi'an went to save Xiao Xiao, but Xiao Xiao was determined to die. He knew where the heart was, and the knife went straight into the heart, almost penetrating it.
She used needles on his body, trying to seal his meridians, but she knew it might not work because the blood was lost too quickly, and, under the current conditions, it was almost impossible to save his heart.
Zi'an used a long needle for the last injection, which was a method of acupuncture for stopping bleeding from external injuries. Combined with sealing the acupuncture points, his bleeding was stopped, but Zi'an knew that he would not last more than an hour.
She would end up watching helplessly as his breathing gradually failed him until he died.
Zi'an finally couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears. His hands were covered in blood and he rubbed them on his face randomly.
Hu Huanxi came along and saw this scene at the door, then sat down quietly.
Xiao Xiao's head was always tilted towards Zhuangzhuang, with a smile on his lips.
Xiao Tuo and Su Qing also arrived. When Xiao Tuo saw this scene, his soul almost flew out. The scream in his throat was suppressed and tears came to his eyes.
No one expected that such a huge change would happen on this peaceful night. One was the princess who defended the country, and the other was a general who had fought on the battlefield and killed countless enemies. Now they were lying here dying.
Murong Jie suddenly thought of someone, and he rushed out, "Hu Huanxi..."
He ran out happily, jumped on the horse, and galloped out like mad.
(End of this chapter)