Now that the words have been said about this, Xue Shao feels that there is no need to continue to entangle with Xuan Yunzi.

The doctor can only save the people he wants to live, not to mention that Xue Shao never thinks that he is a living bodhisattva who saves suffering. Xuan Yunzi wants to be a living bodhisattva or wants to die, as a friend, he has already said all the good things, explained the reason clearly, and tried his best to persuade her. Benevolence and righteousness are already the limit, and in the end, no one can make decisions for her.

It's dawn.

When Xue Shao turned over and got on the horse, he said the last words of the trip to Xuan Yunzi, "I will wait in Luoyang to marry you." ”

Xuan Yunzi nodded, expressionless.

Niu Ben was packing up the marching tent and preparing to set up his horseback, and couldn't help but spit on Xuan Yunzi's back.

Xue Shao looked at him.

Without saying a word, Niu Ben picked up a fist-sized pebble from the ground and slammed it on his forehead, "I was wrong!" I'm punished! ”

Bleeding from the head.

Duan Feng hurriedly pulled him back, "You're crazy!" ”

"I'm disrespectful to the future Mrs. Xue, I'm wrong, I should be punished!" Niu Ben shouted stubbornly.

Xue Shao looked at them with cold eyes, "Clean up and go back." ”

"Yes!"

Duan Feng hurriedly bandaged Niu Ben to stop the bleeding. It is common for marches and battles to bleed and be injured, but this small injury is not difficult for him.

Xuan Yunzi stepped forward and handed over a medicine bottle, "Good medicine to stop bleeding." ”

"I can't stand it." Niu Ben said coldly, "You can keep it for yourself!" ”

Xuan Yunzi put away the medicine bottle and silently stepped aside.

Soon, Niu Ben's bleeding stopped, and the improvised marching tents and other items were packed up and loaded on horseback.

Just as Xue Shao's horse was about to start, Xuan Yunzi called: "Xue Gongzi, is the previous Xuan Yunzi already dead in your heart?" ”

After so many years of experiencing so many things, even life and death have seen numbness, Xue Shao thought that he had already cultivated a hard-hearted heart.

But Xuan Yunzi's question clearly made him feel a sting in his heart.

- Is that Xuanyunzi, who is very wise in white and gets along with him like a spring breeze, dead?

- Where did you die?

- Should she have a tombstone?

Xue Shao asked himself repeatedly in his heart, did not look back or answer, and rode away.

Xuan Yunzi stood under the eaves of the grass house, watching Xue Shao and his party go away, until his back melted into the haze of the mountains.

"It seems that we are really dead......," she whispered to herself, "we will never go back to the beginning, and we will not see the future." ”

Xue Shao did not go home directly, but turned around for hundreds of miles to Zhongnan Mountain and came to the site of Xuanyun Temple, and stood in front of Zhang Miao's tomb.

Since the Xuanyun Temple was burned down, the Daoists have moved away, and there is no one to take care of Zhang Miao's tomb, and a weed has grown on the tomb. In front of the tombstone, there is a wreath of weeded weeds.

"I have no roots, and the end of the world is drifting away. Fallen into the autumn wind, there is no burial flower. Xue Shao chanted these words engraved on the tombstone, picked up the garland, sniffed lightly, and the fragrance was the same.

"You go to Chang'an in your private name and invite a group of craftsmen to repair the tomb and build another incense temple on the site of Xuanyun Temple." Xue Shao took off the money bag from his waist and handed it to Duan Feng, and said to him, "Hire two more lonely and widowed old people to make temple blessings, and ask them to take care of the two tombs here." ”

"Young marshal, there is only one grave here?" Duan Feng asked puzzled.

Xue Shao handed him the garland, "Dig a pit and bury this, and bury it next to Zhang Yaomiao." ”

Duan Feng was stunned and took the garland and asked cautiously, "Do you want to erect a monument?" What is written on the stele? ”

This question turned Xue Shao down. He pondered for a moment, and then sighed, "Don't erect a monument." ”

"Yes." Duan Feng took the garland, got on his horse and left.

Xue Shao suddenly didn't want to go back to Luoyang, so he took Niu Ben to wander around Zhongnan Mountain aimlessly for a few days, visiting many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples until Duan Feng finished all the things he had explained.

The Xuanyun Temple is gone, replaced by a nameless small temple, in which two lonely old people live, who will go to clean and worship Zhang Miaoyao and the tombless tomb every day.

Inside the tombless tomb, there is a withered wreath of flowers, and a dead but alive person.

The three of them set off and returned to Luoyang.

When he walked down Zhongnan Mountain, Xue Shao had a feeling of returning after sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival. Reluctant, sorrowful, and left behind the horse's hooves. There are still many important things to do in his life, and a few days of depression and happiness are already the limit, Xue Shao will never allow his mood to indulge in Qiong Yao's sorrow and rain forever.

The closer they got to Luoyang, the more Duan Feng and Niu Ben felt relaxed, happy, and even relieved. Because they found that Xue Shao, who had been silent and miserable recently, had finally regained his former brilliance - such a Xue Shao was worthy of their worship and sworn to follow!

Back home, Princess Taiping was anxiously leaning on the door. Seeing Xue Shao, she pounced in surprise, and didn't ask him where he went and what he did, but said, "Are you hungry?" Tired or not? Craving something? - Someone, hurry up and prepare fragrant soup for the horse to bathe! ”

The only trace of gloom left in Xue Shao's heart was swept away in an instant, and he kissed Princess Taiping, and he smiled: "I'm all right, I just miss you and our children very much." ”

"Qiyu, come on! Your Daddy is back! Princess Taiping's voice revealed boundless happiness and joy.

As soon as she called, a little boy like a mud monkey came out of the flower garden next to her. He opened his arms and grinned a few newly grown baby teeth, and looked at Xue Shao with a smile, "Daddy, hug!" ”

As soon as Xue Shao picked him up, Xue Qiyu slapped him in the face, making him mud all over his face.

"I'll go! You are the only one in the world, dare to slap Lao Tzu in the face so arrogantly! Xue Shao couldn't help laughing or crying, "Little thing, who allowed you to get into the flower garden?" Look at this body is mud, is it still clean? ”

Xue Qiyu grinned and bared her baby teeth, "My sister wants flowers, I'll pick them for her!" ”

"Presumptuous!" Xue Shao deliberately made a face, "Your father is teaching you a lesson, do you dare to be hippie and smile?" ”

Xue Qiyu tore open her throat without warning and cried loudly, "Mother, help, Daddy is going to beat me!" ”

Xue Shao was stunned for a moment, the little rabbit cub was only so big, and he learned to move the rescuers?

Princess Taiping did not rush forward to protect the calf, but stood aside and smiled. Looking at the father and son in front of her, her eyes were already full of intoxication. She has always stubbornly believed that even if she is the rich Quartet who is the best in the world, it is far from being as happy as this family.

- "This is true happiness!" I want happiness! ”

At dawn the next day, Xue Shao dressed up and prepared to leave home and go to the court.

Princess Taiping sent him to the door of the main hall as usual, and stopped under the eaves.

Before Xue Shao got on the horse, he turned around and asked, "Why don't you keep asking, did I find Xuan Yunzi?" What was the outcome of this trip? ”

"Do you need to ask?" Princess Taiping smiled, "My man personally went out, so there was nothing wrong with it." ”

Xue Shao smiled, "As you wish, it's indeed done." ”

Princess Taiping nodded with a slight smile, "I knew you were in a bad mood, so I didn't ask too much." Xue Lang, if you come, you will be safe, don't think about it. No matter what, I will always be there for you. ”

"Thank you."

Xue Shao said these two words to Princess Taiping from the bottom of his heart, which originally seemed quite redundant between a loving couple.

Princess Taiping was still smiling, and said softly: "Go quickly, you haven't been to the court for a long time." ”

Xue Shao turned over and rode away.

At today's court meeting, nothing special happened. But when Wu Zetian saw Xue Shao suddenly appear in the train of the early dynasty, he knew as clearly as Princess Taiping in his heart - the matter of Xuanyunzi must have been properly cooked!

So she didn't deliberately call Xue Shao for questioning in private, but retreated to the imperial study after the court meeting dispersed as usual, and continued to approve a large number of pieces.

It didn't take long for Xue Shao to take the initiative to come to the imperial study and ask to see Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian announced him in, and said with a smile: "Is the matter okay?" ”

"That's it."

"That's fine." Wu Zetian nodded comfortably, "When will she return to Luoyang?" ”

Xue Shao replied: "At present, she is in Wangwu Mountain, guarding the tomb of her enlightenment mentor Sun Zhenren. The minister suggested that she be given enough freedom before getting married. ”

"Absolutely." Wu Zetian agreed quite happily.

Almost as soon as Wu Zetian's words fell, the waiter entered and reported, saying that Xuanyunzi asked to see him.

Wu Zetian smiled, but Xue Shao was stunned.

"Let her in!"

"Queen Mother, please recuse yourself." Xue Shao said.

Wu Zetian smiled, "You haven't avoided thousands of troops, and you're still afraid of facing your future wife at this moment?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Xue Shao said indifferently, "Chen is just afraid that she will feel embarrassed." ”

"Xuanyunzi is not an ordinary little girl, so it doesn't hurt." Wu Zetian smiled lightly, "Don't go, let's listen to what she is going to say." ”

"Okay!" Xue Shao responded, and said in his heart that Xuanyunzi is generally not twisted, but twisting is not something that ordinary people can stand up!

Xuan Yunzi came in, and her outfit and demeanor were not much different from usual. On the surface, you can't tell what she has changed.

Xue Shao glanced at Xuan Yunzi, and Xuan Yunzi also glanced at Xue Shao, and the eyes of the two had just touched each other and quickly separated, as if each other's eyes had touched some taboo.

"Poor Dao, see the Queen Mother. I've seen Xue Concubine. Xuan Yunzi gave a salute with a glance.

Wu Zetian smiled, "It's almost a family, so you don't have to stick to the old customs." ”

Xuan Yunzi smiled faintly and was noncommittal, and only said: "Poor Dao is here just to ask the Queen Mother to let Poor Dao live back to Shangqingguan." Until the wedding day, Poor Dao did not want to leave Shangqingguan again. ”

"Absolutely." Wu Zetian agreed very simply, "You can live wherever you want, including the Yingxian Palace in the main palace." ”

"Shangqingguan, I will be more accustomed to it." Xuanyunzi bowed, "Thank you Queen Mother, Poor Dao has taken her leave." ”

"Let's go?" Wu Zetian was a little stunned, and wanted to say that don't you want to say a few words to Xue Shao?

"Is there anything else to do with the Queen Mother?" Xuan Yunzi asked rhetorically.

Wu Zetian looked at Xue Shao.

Xue Shao looked back at her with a blank face—what do you want me to do?"

Wu Zetian had to nod, "It's okay, let's go!" ”

Xuan Yunzi is gone.

"Xue Shao, except for the first moment when she entered the door, she didn't look at you again, and she didn't want to say a word to you." Wu Zetian asked, "Between you and her, what's going on?" ”

Xue Shao smiled and replied, "Originally, a pair of confidants and friends suddenly wanted to become husband and wife. I guess she's a little embarrassed! ”

Wu Zetian obviously had no intention of getting to the bottom of it, but said: "Your private affairs will be handled by yourself." This palace just hopes that you will not have any accidents before the big wedding. ”

"Don't worry, the Queen Mother, absolutely not." Xue Shao replied quite affirmatively.

He thought to himself—

Xuanyunzi has already taken the initiative to live back in Shangqingguan, what else can happen?

In her words, she has "made a decision."

In my heart, Xuanyunzi is dead.

The one who has returned now is just a skin about to be put on the altar.

Shaped like three animals, the walking dead.