Ji'an County
Because Concubine Yun said they wanted to have lunch together, An Shi went to the kitchen and cooked a few of her specialty dishes. But Concubine Yun was very fickle and her temper was hard to figure out. She had clearly agreed to have lunch together, but when it was time to eat, she suddenly said she wanted to go shopping on the street, and as a result, An Shi and Xiang Rong were the only two people left on the table.
An said to Xiangrong helplessly, "Let's eat! I've saved some for Concubine Yun. She can eat it when she comes back if she's hungry and warms up. Although she stayed in the county, she has seldom come into contact with you and me these days. I think she still has a rift in her heart because of what happened between you and the Seventh Prince. She probably changed her mind at the last minute. This has happened more than once or twice. Don't take it to heart. If you eat more, you'll look ugly if you keep losing weight like this."
"Am I...very thin?" Xiangrong stroked her cheek and whispered, then smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Don't they say that girls look better when they are thinner? Being thin makes your waist look more prominent. The young ladies from the noble families in Beijing are all trying their best to lose weight. When my eldest sister was around, she once didn't eat for five days in a row in order to make herself look slimmer. She only ate some fruit and drank some tea."
"But what happened later? She fainted from hunger. I asked the doctor to prescribe medicine. After taking it for half a month, she finally had some strength." An was angry when she mentioned Feng Chenyu. "Why don't you learn from her?" But when she thought about Feng Chenyu's final ending, she sighed and felt sad. Compared with her life in Feng Mansion, the present life was like a past life. If she had known that she would have such a happy scene today, she might have lived more vigorously in the past. "Eat quickly! Don't think about those things." As she said that, she pressed another spoonful of rice into Xiangrong's bowl.
Xiangrong watched An Shi press the rice down for her again and again, sighed and picked up the bowl, picked up a chopstick of rice and brought it to her mouth, but she couldn't swallow it. After finally eating two mouthfuls, she didn't know why, but suddenly she felt sad, and the sadness was so strong that she could hardly hold it back. Even if she tried her best, tears still fell.
She put down her bowl and chopsticks, covered her face with her hands and kept crying. An was frightened and asked, "What's wrong? Child, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying all of a sudden?"
Xiangrong cried and shook her head, choking with sobs, "I don't know, mother, I don't know what's going on, I just feel so sad, all of a sudden, for no reason. Mother, my heart hurts so much, why does it hurt so much?"
An Shi had no idea why. She wanted Rong to cry, so she could only gently soothe her back and comfort her from time to time: "Perhaps you have been too depressed these days. Concubine Yun refused to leave, and you had to go to her courtyard all day to ask for peace and apologize. Although she no longer said anything, you felt aggrieved in your heart, and mother saw it all. You can cry if you want, but after crying, you must always think about yourself. It is impossible for a person to live alone in this life. Mother will always leave the world before you. If you never have someone to accompany you, and never have one or two children around you, how can mother feel at ease?"
Xiangrong listened to An's words and tried hard to hope that the reason for her crying was as she said, but no matter how hard she tried, it was still not right. She was helpless and finally shook her head, "No, mother, it's not what you said. I am crying, not because of that. Mother..." She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly asked, "If I die one day, will you not shed tears?"
An was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, I will cry and feel distressed. Even if you are far away, I will still feel distressed, because we are mother and daughter, and we are connected by heart."
"Is that so?" Xiangrong thought about it and wiped her tears away. Although they would still flow out after drying, she no longer just covered her face and cried. Instead, she picked up the rice bowl again, stuffed two mouthfuls of rice into her mouth, and put a piece of meat in the bowl with chopsticks, and then said to An: "Then I can't die."
An was completely confused by what she said. Seeing Xiangrong trying so hard to eat, she was even more confused. She kept staring at Xiangrong until Xiangrong had served her second bowl of rice and finally couldn't help asking, "Why are you suddenly talking about life and death? Why are you eating so much? You always only eat a small bowl, and you can't even eat half a bowl these days. What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Xiangrong shook his head stubbornly, "I just want to live a healthy life for my mother." After saying that, he stuffed another big mouthful of rice into his mouth. But as he ate, the tears in his eyes flowed even more, and finally flowed into the food, which he swallowed with tears, and tasted slightly salty. "Mother." He said, "Although Xiangrong will not die for my mother, I don't really want to live. What should I do?"
What should I do? She was asking An, and she was also asking herself. There was a kind of uneasiness in her heart, coming from a person who was hidden deep in her heart, who was once out of reach, but was once close at hand, and was only one step away from being with her until the end of her life, but in the end she chose to retreat to the original distance. In this world, only that person always touched her heart. Just like An said, no matter where he was, she would feel it. But what could she do? No matter how far she went, she could not get to his side.
Xuan Tianming brought Feng Yuheng and led the army back to Bin City. As they walked, Feng Yuheng suddenly realized that someone seemed to be missing. She asked Wang Chuan, "Have you seen Feng Zhaolian?"
Wang Chuan shook his head, "No, it seems that I haven't seen King Lian since the incident this morning."
She asked others, and the news she got was that Feng Zhaolian had not been seen since early this morning. Feng Yuheng frowned, and several guesses turned over in her mind, and finally sighed helplessly. Never mind, that man couldn't have come just for Xuan Tianhua, he had his persistence, he had his hatred, she should have understood it since Feng Zhaolian was willing to stay in the palace in an almost rogue way and even lived in the Queen's Jingci Palace. That man followed her to the capital, after all, it couldn't be that he just wanted to start a new life. He and Duanmu Anguo had a blood feud, and he had to do everything he could to find out Duanmu Anguo's whereabouts. Now that there was hope, how could Feng Zhaolian stay safely in the capital.
Well, I hope he is safe! If not, then it is fate. Karma is cyclical, who can escape it?
The army finally arrived at Bin City before dark the next day. Xuan Tianhua left 50,000 troops to garrison the city. When he saw his own people withdrawing, he quickly opened the city gates and watched in confusion as Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng brought back hundreds of thousands of troops.
The army was stationed in Bincheng again, and Feng Yuheng was still uneasy. She climbed the east wall of the city and looked in the direction of the city. Unfortunately, after looking for half a night, she still couldn't see the person she wanted to see.
Xuan Tianming made emergency deployments after entering the city, and the combat meeting lasted for three hours before it ended. Bai Ze told him that Feng Yuheng had been on the tower, and when he went over, he saw the girl's frail body standing in a corner of the tower. She only needed to take half a step forward and she would fall down, which really scared him into a cold sweat.
He hurried forward to pull the man down, but before he could speak, he heard Feng Yuheng say, "Xuan Tianming, it's just right that you're here. I wanted to talk to you about something."
"You want to go back to Jiancheng?" He knew this girl too well. If it was an enemy, this girl would never show any mercy and would definitely use the most brutal means to deal with him. But if it was someone she really cared about, she would protect him at the cost of her life. Even if her wings were not full, she would still use her slender arms to protect the person she cared about behind her.
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Seventh Brother hasn't withdrawn yet, I'm really worried. Xuan Tianming, let me go back and take a look! I will definitely be fine, you should understand." She winked at him and shook her left wrist, "Don't worry, as long as we find Seventh Brother, we will return immediately, and I'm just going to look for someone, I will definitely not confront Duanmu Anguo head-on."
Xuan Tianming was helpless, "Go ahead! I can't stop you even if I don't agree. Just be careful. Also, don't drink the water from Jiancheng, understand?"
"I know!" The little girl laughed happily, "Don't worry, I'll be back soon and will be safe." As she spoke, she ran down the city wall and shouted loudly, "Xuan Tianming, lend me your horse. I will hide the horse in a safe place and promise to bring it back to you." After she finished speaking, she ran downstairs in a flash.
The gate opened a little, and Qian Li let her out personally. Then he saw their princess riding a BMW and riding away alone, and he couldn't help but grin. How brave! In front of the enemy, and in the enemy's territory, a little girl was so arrogant to go out of the cave alone. This courage is really beyond the reach of men. Looking back at Xuan Tianming who had also come down from the tower, he asked worriedly: "Is the princess okay?"
Xuan Tianming looked through the gap in the city gate that hadn't been closed yet to see the figure disappearing in the dust, and didn't answer Qian Li's question. This wasn't a question of whether she was safe or not, but even though he knew that the girl had the space in her hand and it wouldn't be difficult to save her life, he still felt uneasy in his heart...
Ten miles outside the city, where the Dashun Army had been stationed, Feng Yuheng arrived at noon. Although it was freezing cold in winter, corpses were scattered all over the ground, and the ground was covered with broken limbs and flesh that had nowhere to step, making the air in this area turbid.
She got off her horse and rushed into the corpses like crazy. She stumbled and almost tripped several times. One time, she leaned on the ground with both hands and pressed on a dead person's head. She didn't care about the nausea and tried hard to search the land. She went into every tent that had not been closed in time to check. Unfortunately, she still couldn't find Xuan Tianhua successfully in the end.
She wanted to shout, but was afraid of an ambush, so she searched for nearly an hour, searching the remaining camp, but could not find Xuan Tianhua. However, she found a large pool of blood in the commander's tent...
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