Raiders of the Empress: My Empress is Too Small

Chapter 213 The Death of General Ming
"Father." Mingyou whimpered, but he didn't know where to start his words. There were tears in Mingli's eyes, but they never dripped. Feng Qingqian stood opposite.

Mingli squeezed Mingyou's hand with difficulty, "Don't cry. Born in the heaven and earth, it will turn into dust and return to the heaven and earth. If you read it, every year on the third day of March, I will tie a red thread on the tree for my dad. No matter how far away you can know." His tone was slow and weak, his body like a dead tree.

The other hand tremblingly stretched out to Feng Qingqian, Feng Qingqian roughly understood what he meant, handed it over, Ming Li gritted his teeth and put his hand on Mingyou's.

Feng Qing nodded slightly, with an untouchable sadness in his eyes, "Don't worry, General, I understand."

Mingli wanted to squeeze out a smile, but after trying hard for a long time, he still couldn't.He is too tired. Over the past few decades, he has supported most of Nanyou's country and family responsibility.
His vision began to blur continuously, and he stretched out his hand hard to touch the door, muttering to himself, "Ru Ruyue, you are here." Mingyou heard his whisper, turned to look, but there was nothing at the door.

"Father" Mingyou used to hear from the servants in the palace that when a person dies, he can always see what he desires most in his heart.
Mingli's raised hand suddenly fell down, tears from the corners of his eyes ran across his cheeks, and he closed his eyes.

Mingyou cried out in grief, "Father" tightly grasped his sleeve with his little hand.

Feng Qingqian sent him to a hiding place according to his bright and stern last words. With a blaze of fire, he and that silk handkerchief were melted into ashes, and returned to the world.Mingyou stood and watched everything, biting her lips but not speaking, it was the first time she tasted the misery of life and death.

On the third day of March in the fifth year of Nanyou Changzhao, the great general Nanyou, who was known as the God of War, died, but he did not mourn, and no one in the world knew about it.On the fifth day of the same month, the officers and soldiers guarding the border saw Mingli wearing a blue shirt and riding away on horseback.According to legend, left official seal and a long letter.A few years later, wild history rumors that he disarmed and returned to the fields to find a virtuous wife.
It was already the beginning of April when I returned to the imperial city, Mingyou was no different than usual, except that she tied a strand of red silk to the tree in the courtyard, and sat under the tree in a daze.Feng Qingqian often went to look at her back in a daze, and then left silently.

Everyone in the palace felt that the emperor and empress were weird, but they couldn't tell what was weird.

On the way to school, I ran into King Nanyou by chance. Mingyou wanted to spare her from the side, but King Nanxuan walked towards her and called out, "Little Queen, what a coincidence."

Mingyou had no choice but to stop, pretending to have just seen him, with an innocent smile in his eyes, "Uncle Huang, what are you doing here?"

Looking at the academy in the distance, he pointed to the boy following behind him, "No, I ran into you when I brought books to the academy. I heard that the Taifu said that I didn't see you last month, but you went away? "

Mingyou looked around and said in a low voice, "I told Uncle Huang not to tell others." His watery eyes were full of solemnity, as if he really wanted to say something big.

King Nanxuan nodded, "It's natural."

Mingyou lowered her head, "I went to the border gate to stay for a few days, and I went to find my father." Ruyi looked nervous, afraid that she would speak nonsense.

"General Ming will return to court in a few months, why does this make you travel so far?" King Nanxuan looked puzzled, as if he was really worried that her young body would not be able to bear it.

Mingyou shook his head and lowered his voice, "My father said that he went to find his mother and found the location of Tengyun Village."

(End of this chapter)