Chen Wei held Xiaoman's hand tightly and said firmly and calmly:
"We can't leave."
"Those people won't let us get out alive."
"Only when there is nothing left of us can we escape."
"Xiao Man, we have found the sweet potato vines. The imperial court will soon send troops to the Xiongnu. The sacrifice of those three thousand women will not be in vain. I know I can't save you. I knew that before I came here."
"But I can't leave you alone..."
Xiaoman fell into Shen Wei's arms and cried bitterly: "That's good, that's good, but, but wuwuwuwu..."
The fire climbed up the roof like a fiery snake, and the people banging on the door outside started cursing as soon as they saw the fire.
"Damn it! They actually burned down the ancestral hall."
"I will tear them into pieces."
"Bang—"
The wooden door was finally knocked open at this moment, and everyone rushed in. In the firelight, only two figures were seen hugging each other and calmly going to death.
Then there was a thick smoke that choked everyone and forced them to run out.
"I saw it. It was two women."
"Put out the fire quickly, don't let them die. Even if they are dead, we should live happily before dying. Even if they are corpses, we want them. Don't let the fire burn all their bodies."
The village chief yelled angrily and snatched the wooden bucket from the person next to him and poured water into it.
How could such a small amount of water block the flames that filled the sky?
I saw flames and thick smoke rising into the sky, which seemed to correspond to the blood moon in the sky. The whole village seemed to have turned into a bloody red under the cover of night.
“Da da…”
“Da da…”
The sound of galloping horses came.
The prince traveled thousands of miles with his soldiers and arrived in the middle of the night. When he saw the flames rising into the sky, his heart almost turned to ashes in an instant.
"Drown the curtain!" The prince's steps as he tried to rush in were stopped by the leader of the imperial guards beside him.
"Your Highness, please calm down."
"The fire was so big, no one could get in."
"The people inside may have already..."
The prince said calmly: "No, Chen Wei will definitely not die."
Only the trembling of his lips as he spoke betrayed his thoughts.
The fire burned down the ancestral temple, and it was only with the concerted efforts of everyone that the flames were extinguished.
"Ancestral temple! Damn thieves! They burned down our ancestral temple."
"Ancestors, the descendants are so unfilial that they can't even protect the ancestral hall."
"Ah! Sir, why are there so many officials? Are you here to help us put out the fire? Those two bitches, sir, you must take charge of us."
The men in the village knelt on the ground, feeling angry and crying bitterly for the loss of their ancestral temple.
The prince staggered to the two charred corpses, and suddenly he seemed to lose all his strength and fell to his knees.
From two corpses whose faces could not be distinguished.
He found Chen Wei's body, stretched out his trembling hands and held Chen Wei in his arms, tears falling drop by drop on Shen Wei's dark face.
"I regret it."
"I shouldn't have let you come to Lingnan."
"I'm sorry, the Taoist priest is right. I shouldn't have interfered. I shouldn't have interfered."
"No, no, it's me who shouldn't have endured it. How could I have just watched you deal with all this suffering on your own? I should have gone to find you and protected you..."
"Weiwei, come back......"
The prince knelt on the ground, heartbroken.
Because of his position as the crown prince, he didn't dare to reveal his feelings to anyone. Even though he already knew that he loved Chen Wei deeply, he knew even more clearly that the position of crown prince was more important to him.
It was not until Chen Wei really disappeared in front of him that he realized that the transaction between the two in the previous life had been settled.
But Chen Wei will never come back.
Shen Wei will not come back...
grassland.
Ever since Zhao Xiangrong discovered the identity of the eldest prince, the two have formed an alliance.
Zhao Xiangrong sent a request for help to the court, but the court did not respond.
The eldest prince did not flee to the Central Plains, but remained on the grassland. Eventually, the Xiongnu king learned of this and secretly sent many people to search for the eldest prince.
With the mutual help of the eldest prince, Zhao Xiangrong and the eldest prince fell in love with each other in the midst of crisis.
"Xiang Rong, you are from the Central Plains, please leave me and go back."
"No matter how mad he is, he wouldn't be so foolish as to kill all of you Central Plains women to vent your hatred. As long as you are alive, there is still a chance."
Faced with Zhao Xiangrong who came to rescue him again, the eldest prince firmly rejected Zhao Xiangrong.
He has told Zhao Xiangrong all the secrets of the Huns. As long as Zhao Xiangrong is alive, there is still hope.
As for him, haha, my second brother is determined to kill him.
As long as he lives on, his second brother's throne will be illegitimate, so he will surely die.
In this case, why bother implicate Zhao Xiangrong?
The eldest prince looked at Zhao Xiangrong with a hint of reluctance in his eyes, but it was hidden in the deepest part of his heart in an instant.
If you can't express your feelings, then there's no need to say them out loud.
Anyway, he will be killed after today, so why waste time on a good girl?
"So what? I am willing to live and die with you."
The eldest prince looked at Zhao Xiangrong in surprise.
Zhao Xiangrong's eyes were firm, without a trace of embarrassment. She looked directly at the eldest prince and took the initiative to expose the relationship between the two.
Under the eldest prince's fixed gaze, Zhao Xiangrong looked away and said firmly, "The court will send troops to support us!"
"I don't trust the court, I just trust her."
"She will find something that will relieve the imperial court of its worries. She will send troops, she will definitely..."
The eldest prince solemnly took Zhao Xiangrong's hand and said, "Okay, I believe you."
Many killers surrounded them, staring at the two men with cold eyes, and their swords flashed with cold light and fell towards them with an intimidating cold light.
“Kill!”
"Protect the eldest prince! Eliminate the remaining evildoers!"
Not far away, someone shouted.
Immediately afterwards, dust and smoke rose up, and when the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, only the cavalry could be seen, with a Central Plains flag fluttering in the wind.
I'm from the Central Plains!
The court’s support has arrived!
When the news of the court's victory over the Huns reached the Central Plains, the people of the Central Plains ran around to tell each other and danced with joy.
The people spontaneously sang and danced along the streets to welcome the triumphant soldiers, and countless people from the Central Plains watched the soldiers cheering on both sides of the streets.
However, in the boudoirs of the major officials in the capital, the women also had gloomy faces.
Their information came from their husband's family and their father's family, and they knew more about the war than ordinary people.
This war had the advantage of time, place and people, and even had the full support of the eldest prince's faction, but it was still very difficult to win.
More than half of the three thousand women sacrificed their lives for this, which won victory for our dynasty, helped the eldest prince ascend the throne smoothly, become the rightful Great Khan, and established a peace that lasted for a hundred years.
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