Xuan Tianming took Emperor Tianwu and Concubine Yun away, followed by twenty secret guards. There was also a carriage beside them, and inside was Duanmu Anguo, who had his hands and feet removed and was neither male nor female.
Seeing the imperial carriage going further and further away, the people who came to see it off all sighed softly, feeling very reluctant to let it go.
On the way back, Xuan Zaiyi followed Xiangrong, pulling her sleeves from time to time and calling her "Hey, hey".
Xiangrong felt helpless and stopped to look at him: "Why are you so stubborn?"
Xuan Tianyi immediately retorted: "I don't know which of us is more stubborn. Anyway, let's just waste time. You can't get him, and I can't get you, so we can just be companions."
Xiangrong was so angry that she laughed and explained, "I just have him in my heart, but I don't have to get him. If I really just wanted to get him, I wouldn't have refused the marriage proposal when I was in Ji'an County. Now that he's in trouble, I can't let it go, but if he gets better one day, Xuan Tianyi, I can marry you."
"Huh?" Xuan Tianyi was stunned, and a huge burst of joy suddenly burst out, but he still tried to hold it in, pretending not to care and asked her: "Why? You know to look for me now? What did you do earlier?"
Xiang Rong rolled her eyes at him and continued walking forward, "Because you are more down-to-earth, and that person is too ethereal. Also, Xuan Tianyi, what are you so proud of? Didn't you also blindly like Bu Nishang? We are the same, no one should laugh at each other."
In one sentence, Xuan Tianyi was blocked. He stamped his feet and said, "Fuck, I regret it!" It seems that this stain cannot be washed away. His little master really holds a grudge and can even dig up things that happened eight hundred years ago.
Behind him, Emperor Tianwen came over and patted him on the shoulder, "Fourth brother, you have a long way to go!"
Xuan Tianyi held his forehead with his hand and said, damn, will this matter ever see the light of day?
When Xuan Tianming arrived, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year. Xiping Village was covered with white snow. From a distance, it looked like a fairy tale world.
Feng Yuheng got the news in advance and knew that they would come today, so he took out the two bear paws and braised them in the pot himself. Zirui, led by Banzou, went to the entrance of the village to wait. He saw the imperial carriage speeding in from a distance and clapped his hands with joy.
The group stayed in Xiping Village for the New Year. It was the first time for the villagers to see such a big shot. They were nervous, restrained, and excited. The last time they saw someone from Beijing was when the Left Prime Minister's Mansion came to pick up the Yao mother and daughter. Unexpectedly, the little girl who had a hard time surviving back then is now the Princess of the Imperial Palace, calling the late emperor "father", and even lured the late emperor and the prince to the village to celebrate the New Year! People thought, it was really a blessing from the ancestors' graves, Xiping Village is a Feng Shui treasure land!
Life in the village was peaceful and quiet. Xuan Tianming would often take Zirui and a group of secret guards to the mountains to hunt, and Xiaobai would follow behind. The beasts in the deep mountains had never seen such a scene before. Who had ever heard of hunting with tigers? They were so scared that they ran away! Unfortunately, they still couldn't outrun the secret guards' light skills.
Every time we go into the mountains, we can bring back a lot of prey, from big wild bears to small pheasants. After we come down the mountain, we distribute them to the villagers in the village, and every household can eat game.
They stayed in Xiping Village until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After the fifteenth day, Feng Yuheng bid farewell to the villagers and followed Xuan Tianming to the Northern Boundary Qianzhou.
Xuan Tianming told her: "Wu Lisheng also went back early after you left. I sent someone to escort her. There is news that she arrived at the old prince's burial place before the New Year. Our people arranged a house for her over there, and she settled down next to the tomb. Her father went to find her several times and asked her to go home to live, but she refused."
Feng Yuheng sighed and shook his head helplessly, "Speaking of obsession, who can be more obsessive than Wu Lisheng? For a person he caught his eye, he went crazy for half his life. Unfortunately, in the end, he still couldn't get a happy ending."
It took three full months to walk from Xiping Village to Qianzhou. By that time, spring was already here in the Dashun Central Plains, but Qianzhou was still a vast ice field.
Xuan Tianming placed Emperor Tianwu and Concubine Yun in Jiangzhou. When Lu Shang knew that Emperor Tianwu had come, he was so excited that he burst into tears. He grabbed Emperor Tianwu and kept saying, "This old minister misses the emperor so much."
Emperor Tianwu was also filled with emotion, recalling the days when he and Lu Shang had been in and out of the battlefield of life and death, as if those days were just yesterday. But in the blink of an eye, they were all old, their children and grandchildren were so grown up, and he even gave up the throne to his sixth son... How could the days pass so quickly?
Under Feng Yuheng's treatment, Concubine Yun has recovered somewhat. Although she can no longer look like a little girl in her forties, she looks very close to her actual age. If she dresses up a little better, she will look quite young. After all, she has distanced herself from Emperor Tianwu again, and she is very proud of it.
Lu Shang paid his respects to Concubine Yun, but Concubine Yun had no interest in listening to his reminiscences of the past. After all, she had never experienced those things in the past. She was only concerned about one thing now: "Hurry up and arrange a place to rest. I'm in a hurry to play mahjong!"
Lu Shang didn't know what mahjong was originally, but when he saw Yun Fei Tian Wu Emperor Zhang Yuan and a female guard sitting at the square table and taking out mahjong tiles, his interest was aroused. So Zhang Yuan taught him while playing cards, and after two rounds of teaching, Lu Shang was able to replace the female guard and play himself.
"Hurry up and prepare the food. Bring it over here when it's ready," Lu Shang instructed the servants. He then turned back and said to Emperor Tianwu, "Let's just have a bite at the card table. I don't think you're that hungry. You should just play cards."
Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard this, thinking that anyone who could hang out with the old emperor was unreliable! They came from far away, exhausted, so how could they not look very hungry?
However, Emperor Tianwu agreed with this point. He nodded without even looking up and said, "I'm not hungry. I eat every day and have been doing so for almost my entire life. How many days have you been playing mahjong? Playing mahjong is more important."
Even Concubine Yun nodded and said, "That's right, just a mouthful of noodles or something will do. Come on, Jiu Bing, does anyone want one?"
Zhang Yuan saw this and thought, well, he won't have a good meal again. He looked at the cards in his hand and didn't want the nine cakes, so he touched the "Great Wall" and got a four. "Well, Lord Lu, they are not hungry, but I am. Can you ask someone to prepare some snacks for me to taste?"
Emperor Tianwu was stunned. "You ate several pieces of chocolate pie in the car, and ate all my share. Why are you still hungry?"
"I'm young and hungry. Why don't you let me eat enough after traveling all this way with you?"
"Who told you to come?" Emperor Tianwu glared, "I told you to stay in the palace and you refused to do so. You insisted on coming here. You deserve this punishment."
"Now that you've left, what am I still doing in the palace? Who am I serving?"
"Serve my son!"
"I have grandchildren to take care of, why do I need them? How can you be so heartless? I have worked hard to serve you for nearly twenty years, and you just throw me away like that?"
"Who threw you?"
"If I don't throw it away, you won't give me enough food to eat?"
Seeing the old emperor and the young eunuch fighting again, Lu Shang was stunned. Is this really a eunuch? Could it be the old emperor's illegitimate child outside? How awesome!
At this time, Xuan Tianming and his wife had already entered Qianzhou. The soldiers who stayed behind had been here for so many years. This was the first time they saw the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu come back. They were so excited that they cried. The two of them met with the soldiers as they walked, and Feng Yuheng distributed welfare as they walked. Tea, wine, chocolate, mineral water, boxes of them were carried out, and the soldiers stationed in Qianzhou were overjoyed.
Finally, the imperial carriage arrived at the old prince's tomb, and Wu Lisheng was waiting there early.
Feng Yuheng looked at her and saw that she looked much thinner than when she was in the capital after not seeing her for several months. She couldn't help but persuade her, "The dead cannot be resurrected, you have to mourn. Your life is not just about Feng Zhaolian, you still have your family and your father. If you keep staying here like this, how can you let your father live in peace in his later years?"
Wu Lisheng said nothing, but silently took the urn from Feng Yuheng's hand, then put it to her cheek and cried silently.
Feng Zhaolian was buried next to the tomb of his father, the king, and his mother. Xuan Tianming had someone carve a tombstone in the name of Wu Lisheng, and personally buried him and sealed the tombstone.
Feng Yuheng stood in front of the tomb, her heart aching, her tears turning into ice. She told Feng Zhaolian: "I have avenged you, look." She pointed at Duanmu Anguo who had been brought to the front. Duanmu Anguo was wearing women's clothes and had put on red lipstick, with his three limbs limp on the ground. She said: "Are you satisfied? Forget about the past hatreds, forget about everything in this life, and be reborn in an ordinary family in the next life. It doesn't matter whether you are a boy or a girl. In short, live a happy life. Feng Zhaolian, thank you for appearing in my life. Ah Heng will never forget the surprise you brought. Feng Zhaolian, I will use Duanmu Anguo's life to sacrifice your soul. After drinking his blood, I will... rest in peace!"
Xuan Tianming raised his sword and slashed it, and Duanmu Anguo's head rolled to the ground. The blood that spurted out dyed Feng Zhaolian's tombstone red, but it quickly dried up, as if it had really been drunk, revealing the original appearance of the tombstone.
Feng Yuheng put his hand into Xuan Tianming's hand and said softly: "Everything is over."
Yes! Everything is over. Feng Zhaolian was buried and finally returned to his hometown and his parents. Qian Zhou was overthrown, Gu Shu surrendered, Zong Sui recovered, and even Dashun had a stable monarch to protect him. Next, it was time for them to live their own lives.
From the northwest to Qianzhou, when leaving, the carriage headed west again, but this time it was due west.
The scenery became more and more beautiful as we walked, and the branches became greener and greener. After four months of walking, from spring to summer and then to autumn, we finally crossed the border mountain and the imperial carriage stopped at the foot of a very majestic city gate.
Feng Yuheng stood outside the palace carriage, looking up, and saw two words written on the city gate: Gumo.
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