In the twenty-fourth year of Hongzheng, the winter seems to be colder than in previous years. It has already snowed several times, and it only stopped a little on this day.
On the trail thirty miles outside Beijing, a black horse galloped past with two people on its back, the horse's hooves raised the snow on the ground, and it slowly fell when the two walked away.
"My lord, the two of you can't run very far on the horse... Let the minister come down..." The voice of the person sitting at the back was a little weak, but the tone was warm as usual.
"No, you're so badly injured that if you throw you into the snow, you'll be dead in three minutes!" Jing Shao wiped the ice balls on his face, clamped his horse's stomach and continued to run. As soon as he came out of the prison, he realized that the group of people who had come to release him was wrong. If they pressed him to go to Shu, at least he should treat the seriously injured princess, and drive them away without saying a word. If it wasn't for the fact that he killed a lieutenant and robbed the horse, he would have been dead as soon as he left the capital.
"My body is dying, sooner or later I will die, please let me down!" The people behind him were a little anxious. This horse is not a famous horse. It has been running for so long, and it has already begun to pant. If it goes on like this, I am afraid that neither of them will survive.
"No, let's die together!" Jing Shao said loudly against the cold wind, this person is the princess he is marrying, and he has been neglected by his concubine to destroy his wife for more than ten years. But there is only this man and wife he has hated for more than ten years!
Jing Shao was the second son of the Empress Yuan. The Chen Dynasty could marry a male wife, and there was an unwritten rule that a concubine should marry a male wife for the sake of the family's peace, but he was the direct son, and the Empress forced him to marry a man because he had a brother above him, and he broke his inheritance. qualifications. So he complained, he refused to accept it, never gave his wife a good face, and was unwilling to help his brother earn that position sincerely...
"Hehe, how can I, Mu Hanzhang, what virtue and how can I deserve the prince to die with me?" The people behind him sneered.
"I'm sorry for you. If I can survive this time, I will listen to you." Jing Shao comforted the people behind him, holding the reins with one hand and tightening the knot between the two with the other. Five miles ahead is Wangyue Slope. There is a small road there. He often walks when he is hunting.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Mu Hanzhang just spoke against the wind, and the cold wind poured in, so he could not help lying on Jing Shao's back and coughed violently, and a strand of blood slid down the corners of his pale lips. He blocked a knife for Jing Shao in prison, injuring his internal organs, and it hurt a little when he bumped it. At this moment, because of the severe cold, the wound was no longer conscious, but since he had already vomited blood... He couldn't help laughing bitterly, and simply lay on Jing Shao's back. superior.
After so many years of neglect, the concubine dared to show off with him. It was impossible not to hold grudges. Since he wanted to accompany him to death, it would be up to him, Mu Hanzhang thought.
He is a concubine of a noble family, and he has been in a cold window for ten years. He does not ask his father to pass the title to him, but only wants to get out of the family earlier. His father and first-mother asked him to marry King Cheng a year before he would take the test. husband and wife! He was a man, but his wings were broken, and he was imprisoned in a small space in the inner house, and he could no longer show his grand plans. After so many years, he didn't know whether to blame the cruel mother or the irresponsible husband.
"In front!" From behind came the sound of horses' hooves, the collision of iron armor and swords, and the chaotic shouts, all of which sounded like a reminder.
Jing Shao whipped the horse's butt hard, and ran towards Wangyue Slope desperately.
"Whoosh~" The sound of iron arrow breaking through the air came from behind, Jing Shao accurately avoided sideways, and the people behind him were also led to a crooked body.
"Hold me tight!" Jing Shao said loudly.
Mu Hanzhang wrapped his hands around Jing Shao's waist and put his body on his back to match his movements.
After Wangyuepo, there is a small road in the forest, which is convenient to avoid arrows. Jing Shao skillfully drives his horses through the forest, and the pursuers behind him are getting farther and farther away.
"Does the wound hurt?" Jing Shao yanked the reins to help the horse jump over a large stone, and turned around and asked after landing.
"No... it hurts..." The answer became weaker and weaker.
"Hanzhang, don't sleep!" Jing Shao frowned and called out anxiously, "Beyond Fengyue Mountain is Yan County, where there is my old department, it will definitely help us avoid the pursuit!" While comforting him He is also encouraging himself. After sitting in prison for so long, his clothes are thin, and he is insisting on will until now.
"咴~" The horse under him suddenly neighed and became mad. Jing Shao kicked the horse's belly violently, dragged Mu Hanzhang and jumped away. Taking a closer look, I don't know which one put the animal clip here, but actually caught the horse's hoof.
"You can put me here." Mu Hanzhang strongly supported a wisp of Qingming.
"I've already reached the mountainside of Fengyue, and there are all downhill roads behind, I'll carry you!" Jingshao looked to the left and right, there were cliffs on one side and a steep slope overgrown with grass on the other side. This is the only mountain road, and it would be troublesome for them to catch up. . Without saying a word, he carried him on his back and ran towards the steep mountain forest.
"See, catch them!"
"Those who become the king's head will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"
"Whoo~ whoo~" The arrows kept shooting from the forest, and Jing Shao fled very embarrassed.
"Hmm~" A flowing arrow hit his right leg, Jing Shao stumbled, and Mu Hanzhang fell off him.
"My lord!" After struggling to get up, Mu Hanzhang stepped forward to support him.
Jing Shao glanced at him and found that Junxiu's pale face turned bloody, and his spirit was much better than before. He was used to seeing death and knew that it was a return to light. He couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart and suddenly pulled out his arrow. Ya, pull up the people around you and run.
"Hahaha, where are you escaping?" The leading lieutenant walked over with a big knife with a grin.
In a panic, the two ran to a dead end, with a cliff in front and pursuers behind. It was really impossible to escape.
Jing Shao put the person in his arms on the edge of the cliff, turned around and swept his foot, the lieutenant was not prepared and was kicked to the ground. Without giving him a chance to breathe, he kicked the man in the pit of his heart and beat the man to the point of foaming at the mouth. He snatched the big sword from his hand, and with the sword he cut down the horses of the chasing soldiers, and crossed the narrow mountain road. He tripped over two horses, and the man on the horse also fell off the cliff.
"Whoosh~" The people behind saw that the road was blocked by the corpse of the horse, and King Cheng was red-eyed with a big sword, and he didn't dare to go forward easily, so they took out bows and arrows and shot them.
"Well..." It was useless to block with a knife. Jing Shao pulled out the arrow on his shoulder and threw it with his backhand. There were screams, and then he jumped over the corpse of the horse and slashed. He was also killed, but he himself was riddled with holes, standing in the same place and watching, not far away, the second wave of chasing soldiers came over immediately. Looking at the steel knife in his hand, he could kill ten, but not hundreds of thousands of pursuers.
He returned to the edge of the cliff with the blood-stained big knife. The blood on the knife and Jing Shao's blood mixed together, dragging out a long blood mark. Holding the man leaning on the stone into his arms, the man was already angry, and Jun Yi's face was pale.
"Junqing, have you ever blamed me?" Jing Shao stretched out his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. For the first time in his life, he looked closely at this man, the wife he was marrying, only to realize that his beautiful enemy was better than everything in the palace. Concubine Ji is not the enchanting and charming kind of a woman, it is a kind of beauty with the arrogant literati in the clear and handsome. Now, his face full of stubble is reflected in those beautiful eyes, how ironic, only after a boring chat in prison, only to realize that this person is a once-in-a-lifetime confidant.
"How can I not complain? If it wasn't for you, I would have been inscribed on the gold medal list and boarded the temple." Junqing was his name, this person had never called him like this before, Mu Hanzhang smiled and slowly Reaching out his hand to wipe off the blood on Jing Shao's face, "but I can't blame you. You are a capable person. It's me who prevented you from inheriting the line... cough..."
"Hahaha, are you capable? What are you capable of? I've been so confused in my life, and I haven't been comfortable for a day. Now that I think about it, I've been wrong all the time... Hahahaha..." Jing Shao hugged the person in his arms tightly, smiling up to the sky, Thinking about how he fought for the country all his life, but ended up in the midst of all his efforts, spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife. In the end, it was the man and wife he had neglected for more than ten years who was jealous of his brother's unwillingness to help him win the throne. , after his disaster, it was only this fellow brother who worked hard for him to run around for him... Sadly, sadly, it was just a joke in the end!
"My life... but not... is also a joke..." Mu Hanzhang sighed softly, "If there is... in the next life..." Before finishing a sentence, he could no longer take his last breath, and his beautiful eyes slowly closed. The slender hand also fell on the blue-black stone and lost its vitality. The sky started snowing again at some point, and the snowflakes fell on his long eyelashes, melted by Jingshao's breath, and turned into water droplets and rolled down.
"If there is an afterlife, I will treat you well and use my life to make up for you..." Jing Shao leaned the person in his arms against his chest, said softly, and looked up at the distant rivers and mountains, which were about to fall on Empress Ji and her The violent son was in his hands... Hearing the sound of horses' hooves behind him, he slowly stood up. King Cheng was invincible in his life, and even if he died, he would never die at the hands of these Xiao Xiao.
Jumping off the cliff, the mountain wind whistled past, Jing Shao hugged the silent person in his arms, "I won't let you go, but I can hold your clothes on the bridge..."
When I opened my eyes from the darkness, it was not the smoky Lingtai fairyland, nor the blue-faced and fangs-challenging ghosts, who were full of red curtains, and the dim light of the candles could not be extinguished. Jing Shao was a little stunned, but felt weak and had a splitting headache. He raised his hand and rubbed his swollen forehead, and slowly sat up. When his body's senses recovered, he suddenly realized that there was a person lying beside him. His bright red robe was torn, and the blue silk was scattered on the exposed chest. Jade's skin was covered with bruises.
He stretched out his hand and brushed away the hair covering his face, revealing a handsome face... Jun Qing!