In the night, thousands of houses in the capital of Xichu are lit. Some are happy and some are sad.

The palace city, which had been locked at night, opened one after another, and a carriage that was not in accordance with the rules and etiquette slowly drove in. A haggard old man without an official robe walked down. The new eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor was about to come forward to support him, but the old man shook his hand and raised his hand.

The old man became the eunuch who was the first eunuch of the Great Chu for some reason. The latter was uneasy and didn't know why the old master insisted on visiting the palace city overnight to meet His Majesty, and why His Majesty wanted to meet the Secretariat in the Tai Chi Hall.

The gate of Tai Chi Hall was opened, and Sun Xiji struggled to walk up the steps step by step. The lights in the hall were swaying, and the old man could vaguely see the figure of His Majesty the Emperor.

The eunuch holding the seal felt a solemn atmosphere that was about to come, because the Emperor of the Great Chu neither sat high on the dragon throne waiting for the old man nor walked out of the hall to welcome the Dinghai Shen Needle of the Great Chu Dynasty.

She stood behind the threshold of the hall and was wearing a dragon robe.

After she held her hands, she turned out to be a arrogant attitude of keeping people from thousands of miles away.

Sun Xiji stopped more than ten steps away from the entrance of the hall and stared at her. The old man's vicissitudes of life became more and more bitter. It was not only because of a sinister assassination in the residence of the Zhongshuling Mansion today, but more because of the first time the woman in front of him showed such a blunt resistance, which made the old man both discouraged and guilty.

Sun Xiji bent down and retreated from the hall behind the eunuch in charge of the seal, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the Song family is so shameless and so ashamed of the scholars of the Great Chu. The old minister Sun Xiji's eyes are so stupid, and he cannot refuse to blame..."

The woman with her back facing the lights in the hall, her face was dim and unclear, interrupting Sun Xiji's words, "When meeting the king of a country and being a subject, shouldn't she kneel down?!"

Even the old man who treated him with courtesy in the capital of Liyang was not at all angry, but felt relieved. Sun Xiji slapped his cuffs with both hands and knelt down without hesitation, "Minist Sun Xiji, the Secretary of the Secretariat of the Great Chu, I will bow to Your Majesty!"

She sneered: "Mr. Zhongshu Ling went to the palace tonight without wearing official uniforms. I think you are old, so I won't blame you. If you have something to say, I will listen carefully!"

Sun Xiji always lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the Song family is not trustworthy, and many civil officials in the court are not trustworthy, and even the old minister Sun Xiji may not believe it, but I beg Your Majesty to believe in the 200,000 soldiers on the front line, and beg Your Majesty not to vent his anger on all the heroes who died for the Great Chu, don't..."

The Empress of the Great Chu, Jiang Si, interrupted the old man without hesitation for the second time, "Don't forget that I am standing in front of you now, just ten steps away from you! If I really want to vent my anger on you, do you really think you can live without the sun set?"

She raised her voice, "The Song family is blind, but I can tell you Sun Xiji that even if there is no Cao Changqing in the capital and no loyal imperial guards who are loyal to me, I can still kill all the rioters who dare to betray the Jiang family of the Great Chu!"

Sun Xiji puts his palms on the cold ground, making his hands and heart even cooler.

After a moment of silence, the old man only heard endless sadness in her words, "I have 100,000 swords alone. It was originally used to kill the Liyang army, not to kill the subjects of the Great Chu, nor to..."

The vague whispers afterwards were no longer able to hear clearly.

Sun Xiji knelt there, speechless.

The gate suddenly closed, and through the gate, the Queen of Great Chu sneered and said, "You go, please don't worry, Sun Xiji, please don't worry, since I am the daughter of the late emperor, I will die in the palace like the late emperor!"

The old man stood up hard and looked at the door.

The Lord Shuling, who was rejected, turned around and left. After walking down the steps along the Dan Bi carved with golden dragon clouds, the eunuch of the Sili Priest who was depressed and pleased, stood there quietly like a night owl, waiting for a long time.

This old man who was able to enter the center of the Great Chu in his prime was only then that he realized that he had taken the initiative to talk to eunuchs over the years. The old man laughed at himself and still did not speak politely tonight, and left the palace without saying a word.

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In the dim light, in a quiet courtyard, she sat alone on the threshold in a dragon robe, neatly placed a pair of brocade boots at her feet, and a knife was placed horizontally on her knees. She lowered her head, took out copper coins that she had treasured for many years, and placed them from one end of the scabbard to the other end.

She was regarded as holding the great Chu country, but she never felt that the real belongings of her were actually these copper coins.

The two seniors she trusted most in her life, the old man in sheepskin fur and the uncle of the chess attendant, both regarded her as a sword genius that was rare in a century. However, on the last and only time she traveled with him, she was always unwilling to follow Li Chungang to practice swords. Sixty years ago, many masters of the martial arts world were eager to get Li Jianshen's guidance. She felt that she didn't know why. Maybe she had seen that person's sword practice, and felt that it was too hard and too terrible, so she didn't dare to practice swords. She only knew that she was so brave. She had been timid for so many years and had been bullied for so many years. Why could she easily study and make money, but she had to practice swords and fight and kill? In fact, at that time, she didn't dare to admit one thing, that is, if there was really a god, she became a land god, would she really have to stab him to death with one sword?

Today, the old bastard Song Wenfeng, who broke up the gentleman's face, acted rebelliously, and there was a saying in it that many old people in Da Chu said, that is, even if Beiliang is her place of Jiang Ni, it will never be her place of peace of mind.

The Xu family and the Jiang family are not the kind of collision between ordinary elders in ordinary neighbors, but the Xu family's cavalry broke through the mountains and rivers of the Great Chu. It was Xu Xiao who forced the late emperor of the Great Chu and the Empress of the Great Chu, and it was Xu Fengnian's father who personally killed the parents of Jiang Si, the new emperor of the Great Chu.

However, if this were the case, she would have long been vague about Da Chu and would have been used to hiding when encountering things. It would be that she could not leave the capital.

Beiliang, sandwiched between Liyang Beimang, is already so difficult. So the guy who took the burden from his father not only needs to face the million-strong army of Beimang, but also behind him is the wary Central Plains and the imperial court. If he takes her away today? He takes the emperor of Da Chu, how should he face the people of the world next?

How would the people in the world scold him?

In the first battle, more than 100,000 people of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry had died. Could it be that if she was just because of her, a vixen who harmed the country and the people, she would have died a lot of Beiliang Iron Cavalry who could have died in the Liangmang battlefield in a vigorous battle? Could it be that he really would not feel guilty about this?

She is a coward who is afraid of taking responsibility. She used to be a maid who would secretly scold people when cleaning clothes. Even if she could stay heartlessly and pretend to be at ease behind you, you, Xu Fengnian, would not have the place of peace of mind.

She knew that in the entire territory of the Great Chu, in these twenty years, many people privately said that the reason why the Great Chu perished was caused by her mother who could not remember her face. Otherwise, the great Chu would have a wise king, a gathering of civil servants, a good general, and a happy general, how could he lose to Li Yang, the barbarian in the north who didn't even know the etiquette of the king and ministers? She was unwilling to believe this, but sometimes she was still afraid, fearing that she would become his beauty and cause trouble.

If she was three years ago, she didn't know anything, and only felt that a couple in the world should be together as long as they like each other, then she would follow him.

But after entering Guangling Road, although she didn't understand the general trends of the world, she thought about it and thought about it countless scenes of reunion after a long separation. In the end, she found that she didn't dare to leave and could not leave.

I don’t know how many times she hid in the quilt and cried secretly, how many times she met her ministers and how many times she wanted to fly straight to the northwest pass by the sword, to look at him, or to look at Qingliang Mountain from afar, and the small vegetable garden in Wudang Mountain.

She covered her heart, but she still felt distressed.

In the dim lights, she missed him very much.

He came to find her, and she was actually very happy.

She really wants to tell him that she regrets being stabbed with a sword.

In the years ahead, you can hate me.

But don't dislike me.

She raised her head, her face covered in tears, and sobbed softly: "Even if you don't like it, you can only dislike Jiang Si from Xichu, and you can't dislike Jiang Ni."

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Looking from the city, there are thousands of lights.

There was a young man who was like a lonely ghost who had nowhere to go, sitting quietly on the top of the city, facing the inside of the city with his back facing away from the city.

Every once in a while, his body would shake, and some blood would ooze from the wounds on his sloppy chest.

A tall woman in white hesitated for a long time, and finally came to him and said sadly: "Why do you come? You are fighting against a country by one person."

The young man remained silent.

The tall but beautiful woman sighed: "Although Xi Chu has very little energy left, she still cannot easily compete with her own strength, especially since you had a death battle with Chen Zhibao on the Guangling River, and you were already injured. Since things have come to this point, why should you stay here to make things worse?"

Only in the eyes of the great master of Qi training can she see the giant pillar of luck standing in the center of Xichu's capital, which constantly split out white dragons, rushed straight towards him and hit him.

This is Xi Chu's real killer move against the land gods. As for the two city guards, it is not worth mentioning at all.

The young man still looked at the palace city from afar and said calmly: "Dan Tai is calm. Actually, I know that according to fate, the people who are disgusted with me, Xu Fengnian, are actually two people. In addition to Xie Guanying, who raises dragons in the bowl, you, the leader of Guanyin Sect. However, in the battle of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, Xie Guanying was beaten into a waterfall dog. Lu Zu, who did not act as a celestial immortal or a earth immortal, resurrected himself. Unfortunately, Hong Xixiang was still unwilling to accept the second invitation from the heavenly beings. So I also know that Xie Guanying's most benefit is actually you. So I am waiting for you to take action. Instead of waiting for you to turn against me in the future, instead of worrying about you and I will ruin my Beiliang in the future, it is better to have a clear and negligent end between you and me now."

Dan Tai Pingjing's face was complicated.

Xu Fengnian coughed a few times and said slowly: "Before you decide to take action, we have some friendship. Let's talk with me?"

Dan Tai nodded calmly and said, "Okay."

Xu Fengnian, whose feet were hanging outside the wall, smiled and said, "Ask you, who do I have seen so many people in the world, whom I envy the most?"

Tan Tai thought calmly for a moment and asked back: "Isn't it Li Chungang?"

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "No."

Dan Tai hesitated calmly for a moment, his mouth slightly raised, "Huishan Xuanyuan Jingcheng?"

Xu Fengnian suddenly turned around, a little angry, and cursed with a smile: "You are looking for death! I admire you, but I don't want to be Xuanyuan Jingcheng!"

Dan Tai smiled knowingly.

Xu Fengnian looked into the distance again, and the lights all over the city were lit, as if looking up at the dazzling starry sky in Xia Qiu. "I envy Deng Tai'a the most. She doesn't care about the ebb and flow of the rivers and lakes, and the tides of the temple. After leaving the Wu family's sword tomb, there will be no grudges, no worries, no worries, and alone, riding a donkey to see the mountains and rivers. I believe that if one day, this Peach Blossom Sword God suddenly falls in love with a woman, he and her will definitely be free and easy."

Dan Tai calmly sighed: "I really didn't expect it would be Mr. Deng."

Xu Fengnian folded his hands on his knees, "Yes."

Tan Tai sat quietly beside him, actually a little taller than him, "Why didn't she leave?"

Xu Fengnian thought about it, "It's probably because she has grown up. I'm not as sad as you imagined."

Tan Tai said calmly: "That's still very sad. It would be strange if you don't feel sad if you don't feel sad."

Xu Fengnian snorted coldly, without refuting or admitting.

Dan Tai calmly narrowed his eyes and said softly: "In this life, people have their own destiny. Some people can always do what they are willing to do, which is very lucky. Some people can always do what they like to do, which is very happy. Some people can only do what they should do, and some people can even do what others think they should do."

Xu Fengnian laughed in silence, and then pulled the wound and coughed a few times. Dan Tai hesitated calmly, as if he wanted to raise his hand to knock him on the back a few times, but in fact, she didn't even move her fingers, and there was a battle between heaven and man in her heart.

Xu Fengnian shook her head slightly with suspicion of being self-indulgent, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to comfort me, will the sun come out from the west tomorrow?"

Dan Tai Pingjing had no expression on his face, but he probably wouldn't be much better even if he wasn't angry.

So she sat down shortly after she got up again.

Xu Fengnian looked up curiously.

She said angrily: "If you are hungry, go for midnight snacks. Only when you are full can you have the strength to fight."

Dan Tai calmly rushed from the top of the city toward the city.

Xu Fengnian chuckled behind her and said, "Silly, although the memories left by your master are very fragmented, I can tell you one thing: he cares about you very much, at least when he passed away, he was still worried that you would go hungry."

Dan Tai Pingjing's face turned red in an instant and almost fell directly to the ground.

After she left, he continued to look at the palace city.

Looking at her.

I want to go forever.

It seems that a Taoist saint once said that it is better to forget each other than to support each other.

I don't know how long I sat there, but the sleepy Xu Fengnian suddenly stood up and stood on the top of the city between the outside and inside the city.

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Chapter completed!