Zi'an didn't know why she didn't want to get married, but his life depended on her at this time, so he comforted her: "Everything is up to your heart. You have to meet someone you really like before you can get married. If you can't meet him, you can't just settle for it."
"I will never get married in this life!" Qin Zhou said coldly.
The mountain breeze blew across Qin Zhou's face. A cold expression hung on her resolute and heroic features. Her waist was very straight. Her military career had rectified all her temperament. She was a soldier first, and then a woman.
"There's no need to say that. You haven't met someone you like now, but if you do meet someone in the future, you might get married."
One should not speak too decisively.
Qin Zhou emphasized again, "I will not get married. I will never meet someone I love in my life. Even if I like someone, they won't like me."
Zi'an was stunned for a moment, "Actually, you have someone you like now, right? Doesn't the other person like you?"
"That person is already married, and will never like me in his entire life!" Qin Zhou said coldly.
Zi'an sighed softly. He didn't expect that a loyal man like Qin Zhou could have such chivalrous spirit and tenderness.
"I know a person who has always been loyal to a love relationship, but the person he loves has already had a child..."
"Are you talking about Prince An of the Great Zhou? Isn't the one he loves your mother?" Qin Zhou interrupted her.
Zi'an hadn't expected that Lao'an's deeds had spread to Beimo, and couldn't help but sneer, "It was him, but I don't really agree with him doing this, spending his whole life waiting for a hopeless love."
"But he waited, didn't he? Your mother and your father divorced, and your father is dead. They can be together."
Zi'an was speechless immediately. He originally just wanted to persuade Qin Zhou, but he ended up contradicting himself. Xia Zi'an, you are so smart!
The two were silent for a while. Qin Zhou adjusted his sitting position, supporting her body with his hands, and then slightly distanced himself from her.
After a long while, Qin Zhou's voice floated in softly, as clear as the mountain breeze, "Xia Zian, you will never understand what I am thinking in this life."
Zi'an shuddered for no reason, strange emotions welling up in her mind. She thought about it over and over again, and finally said firmly: "You really like Lao Qi!"
"Shut up!" Qin Zhou roared, as powerful as thunder, frightening Zi'an so much that he staggered.
"You are the only one who treats that old fox Murong Jie as a treasure. I don't even think highly of him. Even Xiao Tuo is better than Murong Jie."
After a long while, Zi'an said in a low voice: "I didn't expect you like Xiao Tuo."
Qin Zhou gritted his teeth and wished he could push Zi'an off his horse.
Zi'an whispered again: "Xiao Tuo is married, and Liu Liu's personality is not easy to mess with..."
"Shut up!" Qin Zhou frowned.
Zi'an swallowed his saliva. When Qin Zhou got angry, he was really scary.
"Okay, I won't say anything."
Qin Zhou originally wanted to support her, but now he just hugged her gently, feeling an indescribable despair in his heart.
You will never get what you ask for in this lifetime. Even if one day you ascend the throne, rule the world, and hold the power of life and death, God will not grant you what you want.
"I have never hated being a girl as much as I do now!"
She said angrily.
Zi'an knew that she must be worried, but thinking of her changeable personality, he stopped talking.
The two men didn't say anything else. After walking for about half an hour, Qin Zhou stopped the horse.
"Do you smell anything?" Qin Zhou suddenly asked.
Zi'an sniffed and his expression changed slightly, "It's thick smoke, the smell of burning cigarettes."
This is Wolf Tail Mountain. If Qin Zhou’s horse had gone back, then Ajing or Lingli would have definitely come down to find him, but they didn’t.
"How many roads are there in Wolf Tail Mountain?" Zi'an asked suddenly.
"Two. This is the right way. The other one is at Chizi Mountain. From Chizi Mountain you can go to Wolf Tail Mountain." Qin Zhou also realized something and said anxiously, "Sit tight and bear with it. We will go back quickly."
The sound of horse hooves rang out in the mountains, and the horses began to gallop.
After passing the col, we could see thick smoke billowing from Wolf Tail Mountain in the distance.
Zi'an's heart almost stopped beating, he clenched his fists, his eyes blazing with fire, "No, no!"
Qin Zhou stopped his horse and helped Zi'an down. "Wait for me here. I will go up and take a look."
"I will go with you."
"No, wait for me here. Remember, don't leave!" Qin Zhou held down her arm, his eyes dark, hiding his fury. "Scarlett can protect you. Hide in the bushes. If I don't come back, don't show up."
After saying this, she quickly mounted her horse and rode away.
Zi'an tried to catch up but failed. He was anxious and angry, thinking that the emperor must have set fire to the mountain.
Qin Zhou galloped up the mountain, and when she approached Wolf Tail Mountain, she flew off the horse's back, leaping and flying in the woods, and in a moment, she arrived at Wolf Tail Mountain.
A sea of fire!
All Qin Zhou saw was raging fire and charred corpses. There were no living people left.
Tents, pots and pans, all were destroyed in the fire.
Qin Zhou walked slowly, with corpses lying all over the ground under his feet. The fire had spread to other hills. Everything that could be burned on Wolf Tail Mountain had been burned.
Her whole body was shaking, and anger was running from her feet to her head. She was almost about to explode.
Thousands of lives were lost here.
The corpses were found from the flat valley to the hillside of Wolf Tail Mountain. It was obvious that they were trying to escape when the fire broke out, but they could not because the fire was too big and they were all burned to death.
"General..." Suddenly, a faint voice came from beside my feet.
Qin Zhou looked over suddenly and saw a burnt body of a man lying under the chaos on the hillside. His whole body was black and his face could no longer be discerned, but he was still alive, or rather, he still had a breath left.
"How are you?" Qin Zhou wanted to help him up, but his whole body was burned. She didn't know where to start and could only worry.
"I... I am the village chief... Save... us, the imperial court sent troops to massacre... massacre us, three hundred people escaped... Save my villagers, Rouyao County Master died, she saved..."
The village chief's voice lowered.
Qin Zhou sniffed his breath and found that he had died.
Even though he was burned so badly, he held on for dear life and waited until the reinforcements arrived. He still had 300 villagers left, and he wanted to save them.
"Chu Jing, I won't let you go!"
Qin Zhou's voice echoed in the mountains. It was filled with grief and anger, shouting out the decision she had always wanted to make but had been hesitant about.
Zi'an waited in the bushes for about an hour before he heard the sound of horse hooves.
She propped herself up and saw Qin Zhou riding his horse down the mountain, she was the only one there.
Zi'an's heart sank. Oh my God, something really happened. She was still on the mountain.
Qin Zhou got off his horse from a distance and walked over with heavy steps.
She held a jade pendant in her hand, a jade pendant that had been burnt black. She had torn it off a corpse. She remembered that the jade pendant belonged to County Lady Rouyao.
There was a dagger stuck in the chest of the corpse.
As she walked, she spread out the jade pendant. She didn't even dare to look at Zi'an, or see the anger and sadness in her eyes.
(End of this chapter)