Abandoned woman's glory

Chapter 230 South of the Great Wall 1
On the first day of the first month of **** year, it snowed heavily.

Old Zhangtou was not quite used to this kind of weather, and curled up in a wall pit below the gate of the city with his sleeves covered. The bitter wind mixed with snow foam blew past him, making him shiver from the cold, while watching the other guards Some of the young generals, his wives brought him hot soup, and he smacked his lips after drinking it, and he swallowed.

"Hey, old Zhangtou, come over and have a drink."

One of them, Xiao Wu, who was familiar with him, waved his hand, and the old man couldn't wait for it, he ran over with a smile, took a bowl of hot soup, and drank it down.

"Why, you're not used to this kind of weather."

"Well, hehe."

"It's no wonder, you were always in the south before, why did you suffer from such cold."

Lao Zhangtou used to guard the border in Nanyang City, which was still called border guard at that time, but since the merger of the Central Plains White Tiger, Xuanyuan and Qinglong Three Kingdoms, these checkpoints no longer need to guard the border, a large number of soldiers retreated, some were They were transferred to Dadukou in the south, and some were sent to Yunzhou to build the imperial mausoleum.

The battalion that old Zhangtou was in was originally going to build the imperial mausoleum, but he was injured by the crossbow arrows of the Xuanwu soldiers in the First Battle of Nanyang City a few years ago, his shoulders were weak, and he couldn't carry heavy loads, so he had to leave The previous team arrived at this small northern border town, Juyan City.

Someone asked him: "Old Zhang, your brother from the past wrote to you, has the Imperial Tomb been repaired?"

"It's been fixed long ago."

"Who is this imperial mausoleum built for? Our emperor has only been enthroned for a few months, why is it in such a hurry?"

"Who else, not—" Old Zhangtou muttered twice.

This is not a secret, but when everyone mentions it, there is still a feeling of keeping it secret.

Who else could it be, not the empress who died suddenly in the Juma River Valley just one year after she ascended the throne.It has only been a few months since her death, but it seems that not many people are willing to mention her name.

"That's why, when a woman becomes an emperor, she will suffer retribution after all. See, after two days of blessing, she dies without knowing why."

Someone beside me said leisurely.

Old Zhangtou frowned when he heard this sentence, and said in a low voice, "You can't say that."

"That's what it was. After she became the emperor, she fought wars and moved the capital. Do we ordinary people live a stable life?"

"You can't say that." Old Zhang's face was already red from the cold, as if he was anxious, but he didn't know how to refute, but if there were no previous battles, maybe he is still in Nanyang City day and night Hunting, his son will continue to fight, to bleed, to work hard.

"Speaking of which," Xiao Wu wiped his mouth after drinking the last sip of soup, "Old Zhang, you used to guard the border in Nanyang City, you should have seen her in that battle, right?"

The old man stopped talking.

He did, and got closer than anyone.

When the empress rushed out of Nanyang City on horseback, he was at the gate of the city and opened the gate for her.

Until now, he can still remember the appearance of that person galloping like lightning on horseback with flying clothes, more beautiful than the fairies in the paintings; he still remembers that she was hit by crossbow arrows, bleeding all over the ground, but she still insisted on walking towards Wancheng The back of her is so slender and thin, but there is an illusion of firmness like a mountain; he even saw her shoot an arrow, and the fire soared into the sky and reflected the whole sky red behind her, and she was like the most brilliant phoenix in the flames flower.

Many years later, Lao Zhang still dreamed of the scene at that time from time to time.

So he thought, he could understand why the emperor couldn't forget her so much, even after she died, he refused to let her go easily.

Not many people knew about this matter, and it was his former brother who secretly told him that after the empress died, she was not buried, and the emperor put her body into a crystal coffin, and placed it in the bedroom.

It is said that every night, the emperor would touch the coffin and talk to the people inside, sometimes for a whole night.

Of course they also know that the emperor has always loved this woman, since he was the prince, and almost died in Xuanwu because of her. Getting along with dead bodies is still a bit scary when you think about it.

I don't know why the emperor would do this.

What's even more strange is that the empress clearly had an arrow in her heart, her heart was about to die at the sight of iron, and there was no possibility of her surviving, but the emperor continued to search for famous doctors in the two months after her death, as if hoping to cure her, Now that I think about it, it's crazy.

According to the people in the palace, two months later, corpse spots suddenly appeared on the corpse, and there were some signs of decay. General Chao stayed outside the gate for a few days before finally persuading him and agreeing to bury the empress.

However, the former emperor once issued a decree not to allow this woman to enter the imperial mausoleum, so the emperor built a mausoleum for her outside his mausoleum.

Thinking of this, the old Zhangtou sighed silently.

The wind and snow were getting worse, and it seemed that no one would come in or out today. After discussing it, they decided to close the city gate.

Just when he was about to get up to push the door, he saw a blurry figure coming from a distance under the hazy sky, and walked up to them.

This is a slender and slender figure, wrapped in a thick fox fur cloak, snow has accumulated on the shoulders and the top of the head, and the face is also covered with snow foam. I can't see what it looks like, only a pair of quiet like It is the eyes of the lake.

The old Zhang was stunned.

Xiao Wu immediately went up to meet him: "What are you doing?"

"Out of town."

"What are you doing out of town?"

"Looking for a child."

"Looking for a child?" They all froze for a moment. Could it be that a child ran out just now, and they didn't look at it?

"Elder sister, in this weather, it's better not to go out. There will be a snowstorm soon, and what kind of trouble will happen. We haven't seen any children go out, so you can look for them in the city?"

The man shook his head and said calmly, "My child, I've been out for a long time."

long time?Could it be that they didn't pay attention when changing shifts?

Several people persuaded her a few more words, but this person just shook his head silently, looking very stubborn, and they had no choice but to let her go.

Old Zhangtou stood at the gate of the city, watching the figure slowly walking towards the vast and endless snowfield, and after a while, only a blurry figure remained.

"Old Zhang, what are you still looking at?" Xiao Wu greeted, "Push the door quickly."

With a long creaking neigh, the gate of Juyan City slowly closed, blocking all the blizzard from the north, and the slender figure stopped, looked back, and saw the calmness covered in snow foam. There was still no expression on his face, and he continued to turn his head and walk forward slowly. His figure quickly disappeared into the snowstorm, as if he had never appeared before.

Snowstorm, still.

(End of this chapter)