rebirth [rebirth]

On the way back, Rong Jingxuan changed three horses before rushing back to Guangqing at noon on the third day.

It was the beginning of winter, the weather turned cold, and the trees that were not resistant to cold had already shed their leaves, and they looked very desolate when they were bare.

Rong Jingxuan's body was very stiff. He hadn't slept in three days, and usually only had time to drink a few sips of water, bite a couple of steamed buns and continue on the road.

After finally coming to the city, I saw blood all over the ground outside the city. Because it had been a long time, it was already black and terrifying.

The city walls are covered with black marks left by firearms, and the city gates are already mottled. Newly made wooden boards are used to nail the gaps smashed by the siege engines, so that people can see at a glance that a fierce battle has just passed here.

Rong Jingxuan suddenly felt a panic in his heart, and an inexplicable emotion infected him, which made him unable to calm down.

He looked up at the city gate, only to see that his uncle had injured an arm and was looking at him silently.

That glance contained so much meaning that Rong Jingxuan felt his eyes turn red, and galloped into the city.

Guangqing City has just experienced war, and the people still look mournful at this moment. Obviously, many people have lost their relatives.

Rong Jingxuan looked all the way, and saw that the houses in the city were very complete, and there were no traces of war. Obviously, the enemy did not attack the city.

He wanted to tell himself that Xie Mingze had won and Guangqing was guarded by him, but the panic and pain in his heart gave him the opposite answer.

He's still alive, he's just wounded, so he can't come to pick me up on the wall.

He's alive, he's alive.

Rong Jingxuan couldn't help talking to himself, he slowed down and walked around the city in a daze.

A dry voice stopped him: "Jing Xuan!"

Rong Jingxuan turned around and saw his uncle being supported by soldiers, looking at him sadly.

Rong Jingxuan asked, "Uncle, where's Aze?"

Feng Yichi didn't answer him, he couldn't hear, and his pronunciation was vague. At this moment, he couldn't bear to tell Rong Jingxuan the truth.

The stall next to it was just about to open, and the boss and his wife were moving the chairs out together while they were still talking.

I only heard the proprietress say: "General Xie is really a good man, if he hadn't defended the city desperately, our family would have suffered."

The boss said: "Yes, remember to offer incense to General Xie when you go back."

Rong Jingxuan turned his head to look at them stiffly, but he still didn't believe it, so he turned his head to look at Feng Yichi again.

"Uncle, this is all fake, right? He promised me to wait for me to come back, how could he lie to me?" Rong Jingxuan said, his eyes were already red, but he didn't cry.

He hasn't seen Xie Mingze yet, so he won't cry.

Feng Yichi sighed, shook his head slightly at him, and then said with effort: "Follow me."

Rong Jingxuan wanted to get off his horse, but found that he could no longer walk normally. Two young soldiers ran over to support him and supported him to follow Feng Yichi back to the Sheriff's Mansion.

White banners have been hung in the Sheriff's Mansion, and plain onyx is everywhere.

Rong Jingxuan gritted his teeth tightly and staggered to the mourning hall.

There, Hua Jingshu, Dai Xian and Pei Qingyun were already guarding the spirit.

They were all wearing white sackcloth, apparently wearing sackcloth for Xie Mingze.

In Guangqing, Xie Mingze didn't have any close relatives. After his death, his cousins ​​and subordinates could only watch over the spirit. At least they would accompany him until the first seven days and send him off on his way.

Rong Jingxuan violently pushed away the soldiers around him, and limped inside.

Although it was not yet deep winter, it was very cold in the mourning hall.Rong Jingxuan didn't pay attention to the other people present at all, he walked to the coffin with all his heart, and then lay down on it to look inside.

Xie Mingze lay quietly inside. He was wearing a mourning suit that didn't fit well, and he was obviously driven out temporarily.

There were still some wounds on his face. In order to make the remains look better, he asked the embalmers to apply some powder on his face, making his face extremely pale.

Xie Mingze lay quietly in the coffin, with his hands folded on his waist, his expression was serene, as if he was asleep on weekdays.

"Ah Ze, I'm back, why didn't you pick me up?" Rong Jingxuan asked in a low voice.

As he called out, Hua Jingshu finally couldn't help crying.

The whimpering and sobbing echoed in the mourning hall, sounding extremely bleak.

Rong Jingxuan stretched out his hand to touch his face, and it was cold: "It's winter, I said we'll be dressed in the same clothes, and when the time comes, we'll wear it to go horse racing, you promised me."

Rong Jingxuan slammed his fist on the coffin, making a loud "bang".

"You promised me!! You promised me Xie Mingze, you liar, you lie to me every time."

Rong Jingxuan said, and suddenly burst into tears: "You promised me to accompany me to pacify the world, you promised me that in the future we will go to Hongdu to buy a small building near the water to live happily, open your eyes, I I beg you."

"I beg you, oh, Aze, Aze, don't leave me like this." Rong Jingxuan knelt down beside the coffin, crying bitterly.

Hua Jingshu, Dai Xian and the others had never seen Rong Jingxuan like this before, but they also knew that he was in great grief, so they didn't step forward to dissuade him and let him vent his grief.

Rong Jingxuan babbled with Xie Mingze all afternoon in the mourning hall, and Dai Xian and Pei Qingyun had to assist Feng Yichi with military affairs, so they left first.Hua Jingshu stayed there the whole time, crying with him.

He didn't leave, and Hua Jingshu didn't go to eat either. She was sad that Xie Mingze left, but she was also worried about Rong Jingxuan.

Although she is not a few years older than the two of them, she has been their sister since she was a child, and she knows better than anyone else how deep their relationship is.

Night fell quietly.

Rong Jingxuan leaned against the coffin, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Cousin, actually I should call you cousin too."

"Okay." Hua Jingshu replied in a low voice.

"I married him, and he is the closest person to each other."

"I know, you are the best." Hua Jingshu said softly.

"No, cousin, you don't know, you don't know how much I love him, even if I die, I won't blink my eyes."

Hua Jingshu was very shocked. She only knew that the two were brothers, but she didn't know that they really had more than brothers.

But the current situation couldn't allow her to be surprised. After knowing the truth, she became more and more sad.

She personally killed Yu Xiude, her childhood sweetheart, her husband.

How much she loved him once, how much she hated him then.

But the more she hated him, the more she actually loved him in her heart, and killed him with her own hands, causing her heart to die too.

"Jing Xuan, I understand you."

How could she not understand?She has tasted the pain of losing a loved one once, and she knows it better than anyone else.

Rong Jingxuan smiled softly: "Cousin, don't look at him as gentle and refined, but he is actually very cruel to me."

"He would roll his eyes at me, teach me a lesson with a board, and watch me do my homework for the teacher. If I couldn't finish it, he wouldn't even let me drink tea. He was so fierce."

"This guy, who would dare to want him except me?" Rong Jingxuan said with a smile in his voice, as if recalling the sweetness of the past.

He stopped crying, but instead Hua Jingshu burst into tears.

It was hard to write a book in the sea, except Wushan is not a cloud.

There is only one person who loves the most in their life. They swear that they will grow old together, and they swear to be of the same heart, but they never come to an end in the end.

"Mr. Su wrote Jiangchengzi, saying that ten years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, and never forgetting. There is no place to talk about desolation in a lonely grave thousands of miles away."

Rong Jingxuan sighed softly, and asked Hua Jingshu: "Cousin, it won't be ten years, I don't want to live at this moment, how will I live in the next ten years?"

Hua Jingshu answered him calmly: "You see, my cousin also came over like this. Are you not as good as a woman like me?"

Rong Jingxuan chuckled: "Cousin, don't underestimate yourself. When we were young, neither of us could compare to you in poetry. You are a famous talented woman in Chang'an."

Hua Jingshu lowered her head and wiped her tears, and said, "I can do it, so can you. Jingxuan, you don't only live for yourself, you don't just live for Mingze, you have to live for the people of Dachu, did you hear that? "

"If you are gone, what do you want Xiao Liu to do? Do you want him to bear such a heavy responsibility? Jing Xuan, you are the eldest brother, you have to be strong."

Rong Jingxuan was silent.

"Cousin, I'm so tired. Over the years, I haven't really relaxed a day. Emperor Min is incompetent, so I have to work harder to make Da Chu Haiyan, He Qing, and the world peaceful, but Da Chu is still gone."

"Cousin, I feel extremely relaxed only when Aze is by my side. I feel that my efforts are all worthwhile, and I feel that it was not my fault that Da Chu was destroyed."

"Aze told me that it wasn't my fault, and I believed everything he said."

Rong Jingxuan smiled bleakly, and his words were full of sadness: "He told me that he would have no objection to my decision, and he would believe everything I said, so why not me? I used to thank God so much for letting him Just come to me, we grow up with each other, share both pain and joy, no one is closer than us."

"Now that he's gone, he's not only taking half of my life, but also my whole heart."

Hua Jingshu wept silently.

She no longer knew what to say.

They encountered a catastrophe at a young age, and they supported each other to get to where they are today. That kind of relationship is unimaginable to others.

"Jingxuan, you have to take his share with you." In the end, Hua Jingshu also said the same.

"He told me that in his eyes, the world is yours, and you can only sit on the dragon chair. That is his wish and his obsession. For him, you have to take this road Go down, and then successfully return to Changxin."

"Jingxuan, don't you miss Changxin?"

Rong Jingxuan said in a low voice: "Why don't I want to? I can see the tables and chairs in the east study of Chu Ming Palace even when I close my eyes. At that time, we always sat and read together. He doesn't like to eat apricots. He would frown when the second palace servant brought it up."

"How old was he at that time? Was he five or six years old? I can't remember. I just remember that every time he was tricked by me into eating apricots, his expression was very cute. Yuanyuan's face was flushed, like the morning sun in autumn .”

"I'll never forget him."

Hua Jingshu didn't say anything more.

The two sat quietly for a while, Rong Jingxuan suddenly said: "Cousin, I'm a little hungry, can you bring me some food?"

Hearing that he was willing to eat, Hua Jingshu was relieved for no reason.

"You wait for me, come as you go." She hurriedly got up and walked out of the mourning hall.

Rong Jingxuan supported the coffin and stood up. He bent down and took out a dagger from his boots, carefully stroking the lines on it.

"You gave this to me, and it's in use now." He said, turned over into the coffin, lay down with Xie Mingze, and then stretched out his arms to hold him in his arms.

Xie Mingze's body was stiff and cold. Dai Xian had told him just now that on the fifth day after they left, that is, the day they first arrived at Shanshui Pass, Xie Mingze defended the city gate with his last breath and died on the city wall.

At that time, he was hit by three swords, the one on his waist was the most deadly, and he died of blood.

Dai Xian said: "In the end, His Majesty only hastily ordered me to take over as the commander-in-chief, and then he died."

When he was on the verge of death, he never forgot to arrange military affairs, which shows that he is a hero who sacrifices his life.Dai Xian was also seriously injured, but he insisted on keeping watch and wanted to give Xie Mingze a ride.

He really admires him.

Rong Jingxuan hugged him tightly, kissed his cold lips, and then took out the Jade Seal of Chuanguo on his chest.

"The ancestors of the Rong family, Jing Xuan begged with his life, let us be reborn and go back to the past together, and no longer suffer from the separation of yin and yang."

As he spoke, he stabbed his knife into his heart, letting the blood of his heart soak the black and red Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

Finally, he said to Xie Mingze: "Ah Ze, you can never lie to me again."

Hua Jingshu came back soon, and she entered the mourning hall with a tray, only to find that Rong Jingxuan had gone somewhere.

"Jingxuan?" Hua Jingshu called out, but suddenly smelled the pungent smell of blood.

With a "bang", the dinner plate in her hand fell to the ground, and the dinner inside was scattered all over the floor.

Hua Jingshu ran to the front of the coffin, and as soon as she saw the scene inside, Hua Jingshu completely collapsed.

"Jing Xuan! Jing Xuan! Why are you doing this!?" Hua Jingshu asked.

"Do you still think I'm your sister, or do you think I'm your sister?" Hua Jingshu cried bitterly.

"Rong Jingxuan, you are a coward! A coward!"