Hongzheng twenty-fourth year, winter, seems to be colder than in previous years, has fallen several snowfalls in a row, only to stop slightly on this day.
Thirty miles outside of the capital, a black horse carrying two people galloped by, its hooves raising the snow on the ground, only slowly descending when the two were far away.
"Your Highness, the horse carrying two people can not run far ...... Put the minister down ...... " The voice of the person sitting behind is a little weak, but the tone is warm and moist as usual.
"No, you're hurt so badly, if I throw you in the snow, you'll die in a moment or three!" Jing Shao wiped a handful of ice on his face and clamped down on his horse's belly to continue running. Just coming out of the prison, he realized that the group of people who came to release him were not right, if they were pressuring him to go to Shu, they should at least heal the seriously injured princess, and without saying a word, they rushed them away. If he did not kill a lieutenant robbed the horses, afraid of just out of the capital on the head.
"This body of mine is already failing, sooner or later I will die, you quickly put me down!" The person behind him was a bit anxious, this horse was not a famous horse, carrying two people galloping for so long, it had already begun to pant sharply, if it continued like this, I'm afraid that both of them wouldn't be able to survive.
"No, to die together!" Jing Shao said loudly against the cold wind, this person is his explicitly married princess, was his favored concubine cold for more than ten years, in the end to accompany him to sit in jail, for him to be a knife, but only this he resented for more than ten years of male wife!
Jing Shao is the second son of Empress Yuan, at the age of fourteen on the battlefield to kill the enemy, the young king, war heroes. Chen Dynasty can marry a man's wife, for the sake of peace and quiet of the family house has a concubine son to marry a man's wife of the unwritten rules, but he is the first son, after the Empress even to him on the top of the sibling brother and forced him to marry a man, raw cut off his inheritance of the qualifications of the great lineage. So he grumbled, he disobeyed, never gave his wife a good face, and refused to sincerely help his brother earn that position ......
"Hehe, what virtue or ability do I, Mu Hanzhang, have that is worthy of Your Highness dying with me?" The person behind him laughed coldly.
"It's me who's sorry, if I can survive this time, I'll listen to you in everything." Jing Shao soothed the person behind him, holding the reins with one hand and tightening the knot between the two of them again with the other. Five more miles ahead is the Moonwatch Slope, there is a path over there that he used to take when he hunted, it leads straight to the Sealed Moon Mountain, and it's a good place to hide when you enter the mountain.
"Cough cough cough ......" Mu Hanzhang because just spoke into the wind, poured into the cold wind, can not help but lie on the back of Jing Shao coughing violently, a wisp of blood along the pale corners of the lips slipped down. He in the prison for Jing Shao blocked a knife, injured to the internal organs, bumps a bit on the pain, this moment because of the cold, the wound has no feeling, just since it has vomited blood ...... can not help but smile bitterly, simply lying on the back of Jing Shao.
After so many years of coldness, concubines have dared to flaunt with him, it is impossible not to resent, since he wants to accompany himself to death, then let him go, Mu Hanzhang thought with a broken heart.
He a marquis family commoner son, ten years of study, do not ask his father to pass the title to him, but only for his own examination of a merit to get out of that home earlier, but his father and first mother in the year before his examination to be married to the king of the man as a male wife! He is a man, but was born to break the wings, imprisoned in the inner house of the square inch, can no longer show ambition. After so many years, he didn't know whether to blame his cruel first mother or this irresponsible husband.
"In front!" From behind came a burst of hoofbeats, the clash of iron armor and swords, and a mishmash of cries and shouts, all sounding like urges.
Jing Shao gave his horse a hard whip on the ass and ran desperately towards the Moonwatch Slope.
"Whoosh~" the cracking sound of an iron arrow came from behind, Jing Shao accurately sidestepped and dodged it, and the person behind him was brought to a crooked position.
"Hold me tight!" Jing Shao exclaimed.
Mu Hanzhang wrapped her hands around Jing Shao's waist and pressed her body against his back, matching his movements.
Past the Moonwatch Slope was a forest path, convenient for dodging arrows, Jing Shao skillfully drove his horse through the forest, and the pursuers behind him drifted farther and farther away.
"Does the wound hurt?" Jing Shao pulled the reins violently to help the horse jump over a boulder, and turned around to ask after landing.
"No ...... it hurts ......" The words in reply grew fainter and fainter.
"Hanyang, don't sleep!" Jing Shao frowned and anxiously called out, "After the Feng Yue Mountain is Yan County, there are my old troops there, they will definitely be able to help us avoid the pursuit!" Comfort him at the same time is also encouraging himself, sitting in jail for so long, the clothes on the body and thin, lasted until now is completely by will to hold on.
"Whinny~" The horse underneath him suddenly hissed, launching into a frenzy. Jing Shao kicked the horse's belly, tugging Mu Hanzhang to spin around and jump away. Fixed eyes, I do not know which one here put the animal clip, actually clamped the horse's hooves.
"Just put me here." Mu Hanzhang said with a strong strand of clarity.
"Already reached the waist of Feng Yue Mountain, behind are all downhill roads, I'll carry you!" Jing Shao looked left and right, one side is a cliff, one side is a steep slope overgrown with grass, this mountain road is just this one, it would be troublesome for them to catch up. Without saying a word, he carried him on his back and scurried towards the steep slope of the mountain forest.
"See, get them!"
"Whoever takes King Cheng's head will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"
"Whoosh~whoosh~" chaotic arrows kept coming from the forest, and Jing Shao fled in great distress.
"Well~" a stray arrow hit his right leg, Jing Shao stumbled a bit, and Mu Hanzhang fell off of him.
"Your Highness!" Struggling to get up, Mu Hanzhang stepped forward to support him.
Jing Shao glanced at him and found that the handsome pale face actually had blood color, and his spirit was also much better than just now, he was used to seeing death and naturally knew that this was a return to the light, he could not help but feel a pain in his heart, and violently pulled out the arrow, pulled up the person beside him and ran.
"Hahaha, let's see where you guys are going to run away?" The leading lieutenant came over with a big sword, laughing.
The two panicked and ran on a desperate road, in front of the cliff, behind the pursuers, it is really difficult to escape.
Jing Shao put the person in his arms on the edge of the cliff, turned around and swept a foot across the ground, that lieutenant was not on guard, but was actually kicked to the ground. Do not give him a chance to catch his breath, a kick in the heart, only to beat the man foaming at the mouth, seized the large knife in his hand, raised the knife to cut over the pursuers' horses, across the narrow mountain road, tripped over two horses in a row, the people on the horse followed the fall down the cliff.
"Whoosh ~" the people behind saw the road blocked by the horse corpse, Cheng Wang holding a large sword to kill red eyes, do not dare to easily go forward, have taken out their bows and arrows to shoot.
"Well ......" take the sword block also can not help, Jing Shao yanked out the arrow on the shoulder, backhand threw over, gusts of screams rang out, then jumped over the horse body a chopping, the rest of these few put hidden arrows are also killed, just he himself has been a thousand holes, standing in place Looking out, not far from the second wave of pursuers will soon come. Look at the steel sword in his hand, he can kill ten, but not hundreds of thousands of pursuers.
Carrying the bloodstained dagger back to the cliffside, the blood on the dagger and Jing Shao's blood mixed together, dragging out long blood marks. Carrying the person leaning against the rock into his arms, that person was already breathless, and his handsome face showed gray.
"Junqing, have you ever resented me?" Jing Shao reached out and wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth, and for the first time in his life, he looked closely at this person, this wife whom he had explicitly married, only to realize that his beauty rivaled all the concubines of the Cheng King's House, and was not the kind of enchanting flirtation of a woman, but was a kind of beauty that was clear and handsome with the arrogance of a man of letters. Now, that pair of beautiful eyes reflected in his face full of stubble, how ironic, in the prison boredom talk, only to realize that this person is a life-long hard to meet confidant, their own more than ten years, just how much beauty missed?
"How can I not complain? If it wasn't for you, I would have been on the gold list and ascended to the temple," Jun Qing was his word, this person had never called him this before, Mu Hanzhang smiled, slowly reaching out to wipe away the blood stains on Jing Shao's face, "But this can't be blamed on you, you're a man of skill, and it was me who caused you to not be able to inherit the great lineage... . cough cough ......"
"Hahaha, capable? What have the ability? I have lived such a confused life, not a day of comfort, now that I think about it, it's actually been so wrong ...... hahahahaha ......" Jing Shao hugged the person in his arms tightly, and laughed up to the sky, thinking about his own life of campaigning for the country, but he ended up Bird end bow hide, spoiled concubine destroy wife, the last to him never leave is this he ignored more than ten years of male wives, jealous brother refused to help him wholeheartedly to seize the throne, after he fell in trouble for him to go around the effort but only this compatriot brother ...... lamentable, pathetic, in the end but is a joke!
"My life ...... may ...... not ...... also be a joke ......" Mu Hanzhang sighed softly. "If there ...... is an afterlife ......" a sentence did not finish, the last breath can no longer raise, beautiful eyes slowly closed, slender hand also fell on the green and black stone, no The last breath will not be taken anymore. The sky does not know when to start drifting snow again, snowflakes fell to his long eyelashes, was Jing Shaoε΅εΊζ₯ηζ°θεοΌεζζ°΄η ζ»θ½δΈζ₯.
"If there is an afterlife, I will treat you well, and use my whole life to make up for you ......" Jing Shao leaned the person in his arms against his chest and said softly, looking up to see the miles and miles of river and mountains in the distance, about to fall into the hands of the step-empress and her violent son ...... Hearing the sound of hoofbeats behind him, he slowly stood up. King Cheng has been invincible in battle all his life, and even if he dies, he will never die in the hands of these curmudgeons.
Leaping down the cliff, the mountain wind whistling past his ears, Jing Shao hugged the soundless person in his arms tightly, "If I don't let go of you, I'll be able to clutch the corner of your coat on the Naihe Bridge ......"
Open your eyes from the darkness, not the smoky spirit platform wonderland, not the green-faced fangs of the life-suppressing ghosts, full of red tents, the shimmering light of the remnants of the candles is bright and uncertain. Jing Shao was a little stunned, only to feel drained and have a splitting headache. Raising his hand to rub the distended corners of his forehead, he slowly sat up, and when his body's senses were restored, he suddenly realized that there was a person lying beside him, his bright red robe was torn, his green silk was scattered on his exposed chest, and his glistening jade-like skin was full of blue and purple scars.
Reaching out, he brushed away the hair covering his face, revealing a handsome face ...... Junqing!