Jincheng, in the county government meeting hall.
Yi Xiaoling and Li Dingxing didn't understand why Zhou Ziru suddenly came to see them today? Especially Li Dingxing, he and Zhou Ziru had resented Zhou Ziru ever since they were intercepted by his troops during the Battle of Poyang Lake.
Yi Xiaoling comforted Li Dingxing and said: "Big brother is not here now. It is normal for him to discuss things with us. Please restrain yourself later. After all, he is still Daqi Wenxiang. Try not to conflict with him."
Li Dingxing nodded: "I know that in this special period, everything is focused on fighting the Northern Yi."
Six years ago, Li Dingxing came to the Northern Territory of Daqi and fought against Beiyi because of Yi Xiaoling's master feud, but now, it is not just a master feud.
The Northern Yi wanted to go south to the Central Plains, which affected everyone in Daqi. Not to mention him, even the emperor in the capital could not stay out of the matter.
What's more, Zhou Ziru now leads a total of more than 500,000 troops from all over Daqi. It would be sheer stupidity to compete with Zhou Ziru.
After a while, Fang Qianlong walked in from the door, looked at the two of them with a strange expression, and stood directly behind them.
Li Dingxing was a little strange. He looked back at him and asked, "Is it also Prime Minister Zhou who called you here?"
Fang Qianlong nodded, still saying nothing.
Yi Xiaoling had a bad premonition in her heart: "Did something happen?"
Fang Qianlong finally said: "We will know when Prime Minister Zhou comes."
Li Dingxing and Yi Xiaoling looked at each other, and both of them noticed something unusual. Just when he was about to ask again, Zhou Ziru walked in from the door.
"President Zhou."
When the two saw Zhou Ziru coming in, they said hello together. Yi Xiaoling was impatient and asked: "Prime Minister Zhou, why did you come to us today?"
Zhou Ziru opened his mouth, but still didn't know how to speak. Finally he sighed and said, "You should come out and see for yourself."
When I came outside the hall, I found that a mahogany coffin had appeared in the courtyard at some point. The lid of the coffin was not closed, but was placed aside. The meaning was very obvious.
The two glanced at Zhou Ziru, but he turned away and did not respond.
Yi Xiaoling rushed to the coffin in a panic, and when she took a closer look, the person lying in the coffin was none other than He Yue'er!
"This... Yue... How dare you put Sister Yue'er to sleep in the coffin! What do you mean! Pull her out quickly!" As soon as Yi Xiaoling saw He Yue'er, she couldn't help but said angrily, reaching out to pull her away. He Yue'er's body.
Li Dingxing saw it clearly and stood aside in shock, motionless like a piece of wood.
Fang Qianlong was on the side, stretched out his hand to stop Yi Xiaoling, and shook his head gently.
"Hey! Fang Long! Why are you holding me? How unlucky is it to let Sister Yue'er sleep in a coffin? Please help me lift her up!" Yi Xiaoling asked for help anxiously.
"The person is dead..." Fang Qianlong knew that Yi Xiaoling was unwilling to accept the fact, so he couldn't help but say it.
Yi Xiaoling's face suddenly darkened: "We looked for you for a long time back then but couldn't find you, but Yi Xiaodao went to Dingxing to ask for news about you whenever he had time! Sister Yue'er also always cared about you, so you don't have to worry about it just because of this. Curse Sister Yue'er to death!"
"If you don't want to help, just get out of the way! I can help Sister Yue'er up by myself!"
Regarding the past, Fang Qianlong had already solved his knot with Yi Xiaodao, and when he heard Yi Xiaoling talking about it now, he didn't have any other thoughts in his mind.
It's just that the deceased is the most important, so he must stop Yi Xiaoling and not let her disturb He Yue'er's peace.
"Listen to me, He Yue'er is really dead!" Fang Qianlong repeated.
Yi Xiaoling grabbed the Nianjun Sword at her waist with her other hand and took the sword out of its sheath.
Looking at her face again, murderous intent emerged.
"If you say that again, I will kill you!" Yi Xiaoling's originally cute and cute face now became terrifying.
Fang Qianlong also secretly became wary and opened his mouth to continue: "Sister Yue'er has..."
"Dead." Li Dingxing stood beside Yi Xiaoling and murmured.
A semicircular arc of light was drawn, and the Nianjun Sword slashed towards Li Dingxing.
Fang Qianlong wanted to stop him, but the coffin was between them, and he was beyond his reach.
Li Dingxing stood there, motionless.
Nianjunjian stopped on Li Dingxing's forehead.
"Wooooooooooooooooooow!!!"
The Nianjun Sword in Yi Xiaoling's hand slipped to the ground, and he collapsed on the ground, looking up and crying.
"You lied to me! You all lied to me! How could Sister Yue'er die? It's impossible!! Wow wow wow wow!"
Li Dingxing and Fang Qianlong, including Zhou Ziru on the steps, did not speak.
They knew that when Wancheng was flooded, Yi Xiaodao, Xiang Lian'er, and He Yue'er fled for their lives from Wancheng, climbed mountains and rivers, and rushed all the way to the capital, just to file a complaint. The three of us have tasted the hardships along the way and have become a family that shares life and death together.
Putting aside the relationship between Yi Xiaodao and He Yue'er, Yi Xiaoling and He Yue'er have long been sisters who share the same affection with each other.
Now one is outside the coffin and the other is inside the coffin. No one can accept it.
Li Dingxing had never seen Yi Xiaoling cry so heartbrokenly. She had never cried like this before when her mentor Liu Zhiyun, the master of Lingyue Pavilion, died.
Li Dingxing knelt down on the ground distressedly, held Yi Xiaoling in his arms, and gently stroked his back to comfort him.
"Ahhh! Wood...I don't have a sister anymore! I don't have a sister!!"
…
As night fell, Yi Xiaoling sat by the coffin and stopped crying. Tears were still flowing down, and her eyes were swollen. She had been crying for a whole day.
Li Dingxing sat next to Yi Xiaoling and held her shoulders. He also held her for the whole day.
Zhou Ziru coughed softly, walked over and said, "No one wants to see what happened to Miss Yue'er. But it has happened now..."
"I also have the whereabouts of Yi Xiaodao here. If you want to know, we can discuss it again after you have calmed down a bit."
"How is my brother?" Yi Xiaoling asked softly, his eyes already lifeless.
Zhou Ziru paused for a while and said: "He is fine. He is here in Jincheng. He just fainted."
Li Dingxing swallowed a sip of saliva. He noticed that Yi Xiaoling's hand had been holding the Nianjun Sword tightly. He tried to take it off several times but failed.
If he knew that Yi Xiaodao had another problem, Li Dingxing really didn't know what Yi Xiaoling would do.
Even though they had been married for seven years, he didn't know.
Zhou Ziru continued: "Now... we don't know yet whether Yi Xiaodao knows about Miss Yue'er. If he knows..."
Zhou Ziru didn't finish his words, but everyone present knew what the consequences would be...
"Is Brother Qin gone too?" Yi Xiaoling asked softly.
Zhou Ziru nodded: "Well, the sentry found Brother Qin's body at the scene, but... couldn't bring it back, so he had to bury it on the spot."
Everyone knows what the words "cannot be brought back" mean, it's just a dead body.
Yi Xiaoling nodded, she knew that as long as Qin Changqian was still alive, there was no way that anything would happen to He Yue'er.
"Baixinglong Bai Shaoxia..." Zhou Ziru suddenly hated his mouth at this moment, and bad news came out one after another.
"Where is my brother? Take me to see my brother."
Yi Xiaoling moved. He leaned on his sword and tried to stand up, but he couldn't get up after several attempts. In the end, Li Dingxing and Fang Qianlong helped her up together.
Zhou Ziru breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yi Xiaoling had finally returned to normal. Apart from her, there was no one else who could restrain Yi Xiaodao now.
"That's fine. I'm going to tell you first because I want you to...persuade Yi Xiaodao when he wakes up." Zhou Ziru told you all his thoughts.
Yi Xiaoling shook his head gently: "I am waiting for my brother to wake up because I want to be with him. If he wants to calm down, I will calm down; if he wants to take revenge, I will take revenge with him."
Li Dingxing held Yi Xiaoling's hand, feeling her determination, and nodded: "Take me with you. People who are important to you are equally important to me."
Zhou Ziru was a little helpless, but there was nothing he could do to them now, so he had to wave his hand, and the soldiers on the side came over and led them towards Yi Xiaodao's room.
Zhou Ziru and Fang Qianlong were the only two people left in the courtyard.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Ziru asked Fang Qianlong, who was in a daze.
Fang Qianlong nodded and did not deny it.
"Madam and children?" Zhou Ziru has always been very accurate in guessing people's hearts.
Fang Qianlong continued to nod: "Well, yes. Ling'er has given birth, and it's a girl. It's great, I like girls."
Zhou Ziru knew that Fang Qianlong had already arranged for his wife Du Ling'er and the little girl Xian'er to return to the Central Plains. As for where they had gone, he didn't know and had no intention of knowing.
"Prime Minister Zhou, I have a favor for you." Fang Qianlong said suddenly.
"you say."
"If... I die, please ask Prime Minister Zhou to transport my body back to the capital and bury it outside the south gate."
Zhou Ziru was a little surprised: "Is it that simple? Don't tell your family how to arrange it?"
Fang Qianlong shook his head and said: "No, I made an appointment with Ling'er. If there is no news about me in five years, it means that I am dead and buried at the south gate of the capital. That is where she and I live together."
"She will take care of things at home."
Zhou Ziru looked at the indifference on Fang Qianlong's face and couldn't help but said: "My beloved wife and daughter are here. If Gang Leader Fang can escape then, there is no need to seek death."
Fang Qianlong smiled: "Of these five hundred thousand troops, who doesn't have family? Am I the only one who does?"
Zhou Ziru was convinced, because he was convinced by these people's will to die.
…
The soldiers led Yi Xiaoling and Li Dingxing outside the door, saluted them and left.
Li Dingxing looked at Yi Xiaoling with some worry. He was very afraid that Yi Xiaodao inside was missing his arms and legs.
Now Yi Xiaoling could no longer withstand any blow.
Yi Xiaoling seemed to be mentally preparing, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
In the room, candlelight was lit, and Yi Xiaodao was sitting at the table, his eyes half-closed, wondering what he was thinking. Seeing the two of them push the door open and come in, they smiled.
"coming?"
