In the Weiyang Palace, the emperor stood in front of the picture of the sunset over the long river, the smile on his lips gradually widening.

The lights in the hall are bright, but they are hazy like fog, making people's thoughts blurry.

He remembered that when he was seven years old, his father was seriously ill. He and his seventh brother were guarding his father's bed. His father was holding his hand with one hand and his seventh brother's hand with the other. The torture of the illness made him like this.

The hands were as skinny as firewood, and the blue veins were like old tree roots protruding from the land.

He said: "Xiao'er, your seventh brother's ambitions are not in the country. Therefore, my father has passed on this throne to you. You must do your best to protect the people of Chu Zhao and pacify the world."

While crying, he nodded vigorously: "Father, I will definitely fulfill my mission."

The old emperor looked at Ye Hen with a weak breath and said: "Hen'er, my father knows your thoughts. The great rivers and mountains are the place you yearn for. However, I promise my father to help Xiao'er eradicate his differences and eliminate foreign troubles.

Wait until the world is at peace and Chu Zhao is stable, then you can go find your piece of heaven and earth, okay?"

Ye Hen bit his lip and held the old emperor's hand tighter. The hard skin on his skin pricked his palm, and he felt extremely painful.

"Father, I will do my best to assist my eighth brother, no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it is."

The old emperor smiled comfortingly, and before closing his eyes, he murmured: "Father, I miss the yellow sand of the desert..."

After the old emperor passed away, in order to fulfill his last wish, Ye Xiao took the old emperor's crown and went to the desert with a group of guards.

Unfamiliar with the environment and the road, they soon lost their way in the desert. They spent three days and three nights without going out. The food and water around them gradually ran out, and only the last horse was left.

, in order to save his life and save their only rations, several guards committed suicide in front of him.

He led the horse forward hard by himself, and later killed the horse. He sat on the sand dune, eating the last piece of horse meat. Just when he was desperate, he saw a desolate Gobi desert suddenly appear in front of him.

There is a long river, and a sunset hangs in the clear sky.

He ran and rolled excitedly towards the bottom of the sand dune, but the river was getting further and further away from him. He finally lost strength and fainted in a pile of yellow sand.

When he woke up again, there was laughter like silver bells in his ears. He reluctantly opened his eyes and saw a girl in white sitting on the side of a camel roasting a good leg of lamb.

Kettle in sheepskin bag.

He touched his throat and stretched out his hand with difficulty.

She turned around at this moment, and he saw her with picturesque features and white clothes, like a fairy.

He rubbed his eyes and asked doubtfully: "Am I dead?"

The girl came over, stretched out her little hand and pinched his face. He cried out in pain: "What are you doing?"

She laughed softly, then put the roasted leg of lamb and water in front of him: "My name is Mo'er, what's yours?"

His identity as a prince could not be exposed, for fear of being caught in this foreign country, so he made up a random name: "Kefeng."

In the next few days, Mo'er took care of him until his strength recovered and he was able to walk, but he suddenly couldn't bear to leave.

He likes to sit there quietly and watch her in a daze, he likes the way she frowns seriously when grilling food, and he likes her smiling at him. At that moment, it's like bright peonies blooming on the desert.

Until the day he was about to leave, although he was deeply reluctant to leave, he still pretended to be nonchalant and said: "Will you go to Chu Zhaoguo to find me in the future?"

She shook her head: "I will not leave the desert or my home."

He lowered his head in frustration, then looked at her with bright eyes and said, "When we grow up, if you are not married yet and neither am I, I will come to the desert to propose marriage to you."

She just thought it was a joke, covered her mouth and chuckled.

Seeing the serious look on his face, he suppressed a smile and said, "Let me dance for you as a farewell gift."

He said: "Okay."

As a result, she performed a desert sword dance.

He had been in the palace since he was a child, and was used to seeing those enchanting dancers, but now he actually felt that this little girl who was only a few years old would be eclipsed when she danced this stunning dance.

Feel.

He had never seen such a beautiful dance and was stunned for a moment.

Many years later, one midnight, when he woke up from his dream, put on his outer robe and came to the yard full of pear blossoms, he raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and there seemed to be her full and bright smile among the pear blossoms.

He ordered someone to draw a picture of the sunset over the long river and hang it in the Weiyang Palace. Whenever he was physically and mentally exhausted, he would look at the picture and think of the scene many years ago, when a girl in white danced a stunning dance for her.

He has become the emperor of Chu Zhao Kingdom and has a harem of three thousand beauties. The promises he made back then seem to have been lost in the wind and sand.

Until that day, the envoy of Li State came to visit and brought the sincerity of the king of Li State. They wanted to betroth Princess Mo'er of Li State to him. At that time, he talked to the envoy of Li State calmly, but the envoy of Li State kept silent.

He was so happy that he was almost dancing like a child. Yun Qian looked on in confusion, as if he had never seen him so happy in so many years.

"Your Majesty, why are you so happy?" He finally couldn't help asking.

The emperor said happily: "Immediately issue a decree and canonize Princess Mo'er of Li State as the second-grade Zhaoyi."

Yun Qian was stunned, "Your Majesty, since the founding of the country, no woman has been canonized as soon as she entered the palace."

But he said stubbornly: "I don't care, I just don't want her to be wronged."

On the day Mo'er arrived, he encountered a mountain bandit. He had trouble sleeping and eating, so he sent his personal bodyguard Lin Jinfeng to personally lead the 800 royal guards to search for her. He was relieved when news came that he had found her.

On the wedding day, he felt anxious and excited for a long time. Once the complicated ceremony was over, he couldn't wait to come to their wedding room.

When he lifted the red hijab on her head, he was almost stunned by her beauty. She was even more beautiful than she was more than ten years ago.

But the way she looked at him was full of defensiveness, like a frightened deer.

When she knelt in front of him and said that she was tired from traveling and traveling, and asked him to rest in another palace, he knew that she no longer remembered him, and that another person had already lived in her eyes. This person was not

he.

He was furious and went to Concubine Hua's palace, but all night, he sat on the soft couch, his eyes only had her, so full that not even a grain of sand could squeeze in.

He knew that the palace was dangerous and that she would encounter bandits that day. This was exactly the arrangement arranged by Prime Minister Hua. Prime Minister Hua originally wanted to sow discord between Chu Zhao and Li State, making him suffer enemies both internally and externally.

Under this situation, he wanted to pamper her, but he had to alienate her. He didn't want to bring the flames of war to her, so he sent her autumn light, hoping that she would still be as pure as jade in the desert.

woman.

Unexpectedly, in the end, he sent her to Li State and asked her to persuade his father to help Chu Zhao. He didn't want to push her to the front line, but there was nothing he could do.

A faint sigh echoed in Weiyang Palace. Yun Qian heard the sound and immediately came in and asked: "Your Majesty, can you pass on the night meal?"

He shook his head and said, "No, just pack up these memorials and I'll do some painting."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

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Mo'er followed Ye Hen and Lin Jinfeng to start first, followed closely by Mo Yao's 200,000 elite soldiers. In order not to attract the attention of Prime Minister Hua, the soldiers of Li State announced that their expedition was actually to attack Chu Zhao State.

Snowfields of neighboring countries.

"Princess, why are you laughing?" Axiu sat in the car and looked curiously at Mo'er, who was smiling.

Mo'er's smile deepened a little. This time her brother sent troops to help Chu and quell the civil strife. It was just around the corner.

She always remembered Ye Hen's words in her heart: when he helped the emperor stabilize the country, he would come to marry her openly, and they would live in seclusion in the desert together, not caring about worldly matters.

"Princess, we are back in the palace now. We still have to live in the Moon Palace. How are you happy?" Axiu said with a pout.

Mo'er smiled and said: "If your heart is trapped, the world is a prison everywhere; if your heart is at ease, a small tiled house is also a paradise on earth. What does it matter where you live?"

"Princess, Axiu can't defeat you, so just bully Axiu."

Mo'er smiled and tapped her forehead: "You can't say it, you don't dare to say it."

Axiu smiled happily: "The princess has seen through it all."

The car arrived at Zisu City after a few days of driving. In order to avoid attracting the attention of outsiders, the group quietly entered through the east main gate in the middle of the night. Yunqian sent her attentive servant to send her to Yuehan Palace.

Ye Hen took her to the door. She got out of the car, wearing a black mink velvet cloak. The wind picked up in the middle of the night, blowing the fallen leaves on the ground and blowing the hood off her head. She couldn't help but look back,

Seeing him standing in the moonlight dressed in black, with an unusually handsome and cold look on his face, warmth surged through her heart, and she felt at ease what she could say.

She could understand the determination in his eyes.

Nodding slightly to him, Mo'er and Axiu followed the chambermaid into the palace gate.

Ye Hen turned back and sat in the car. Lin Jinfeng said while driving the car: "Your Majesty, what should we do next?"

There was a fierce look on his brows, and he said quietly: "You secretly keep an eye on Prime Minister Hua's people in the palace and control Concubine Hua. I will dispatch troops and generals outside the pass to besiege Zisu City."

Lin Jinfeng said worriedly: "What about the princess?"

Ye Hen thought of Xue'er and frowned: "I will send her out."

Although Xue'er is the daughter of Prime Minister Hua, she has no fault at all. Although there is no actual relationship between husband and wife, they have the name of husband and wife. Due to emotions and reasons, he does not want her life. He banishes her outside the customs so that she will have no worries about food and clothing in the future.

He has exhausted all his benevolence and righteousness.

After Mo'er returned to Yuehan Palace, she was different from those concubines who were relegated to the cold palace. She had her own private courtyard. Three meals a day were delivered by a dedicated servant, and the food was of a higher level than the queen.

The emperor took good care of her and was not willing to treat her badly in the slightest, and naturally others did not know this.

She stayed in the Yuehan Palace all day long, drawing, writing, playing the piano and reading. While her life was peaceful and happy, she was also worried about the war that was about to break out.

Axiu received the special order and could freely enter and leave the Yuehan Palace. I am afraid that the emperor deliberately wanted her to know some of the actual facts of the authorities and then tell Mo'er about them. Firstly, he was afraid that she would be lonely, and secondly, he would not make her worry all day long.

That day, Axiu hurriedly ran in, put the basket of snacks in her hands on the table, and said breathlessly: "Princess, the fight is starting, the fight is starting."

Mo'er also felt a thump in her heart, put down the book in her hand, and laughed at her: "Look at how anxious you are, can't you tell me something slowly?"
To be continued...