A group of cavalry escorted Ai Yan and rushed to Liansheng Mountain.

Ai Yan saw from a distance that on the top of the mountain, there was a big bright red banner floating, which was the commander of the Zhou army when he was directing the battle. Beneath the flag stood a man who looked like a tiny black dot from a distance.

The people standing at the top of the mountain and the people standing at the foot of the mountain looked at each other so small.

Ai Yan knew that it was him.

In her heart, there was suddenly a strong gap, and there was a deep sense of powerlessness.

I remember when I first met him, although he was amazing and had an unlimited future, he was still just a small person who couldn't help himself. When we meet again today, he is already so high, like a god in the clouds, with millions of corpses at his fingertips, and the country is destroyed.

Time can really change everything.

There is only one way up the mountain, which is heavily guarded. The escort soldier stopped when he sent Ai Yan here, "Madam, I can only send you here, please go up the mountain by yourself." ”

"I've never married, I'm not a lady." Ai Yan scolded.

"Sorry...... Our Lady of Kaudi, please! ”

Ai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she was a little out of shape, so she said "thank you" to Yan Yuese.

All the way up the mountain, no one stopped them, and no one came to pick them up. In this way, Ai Yan climbed quietly along a mountain path full of soldiers' sentry posts.

With every step she took, she would recall something from the past. From the first day I met Xue Shao in Black Sand City to today, the past is vivid.

From the moment Triphorse wrapped his neck around him, his fate seemed to be predestined. When he was in the capital, he actually had the opportunity to marry him, but how could the princess of the Ashina clan be the dowry of the princess of the Central Plains and serve with so many women?

But at that time, I really fell in love with him like a demon, and I was hopeless. The women of the grassland have never had the hypocrisy and shyness of the Central Plains women, and they like it without hiding it. So without hesitation, I gave him the most precious thing as a woman.

At that time, I didn't even think about whether he liked it or not, whether he wanted it or not - he liked it, and that was enough.

"At that time, I was really young, so willful, and so ridiculous!"

Thinking of this, Ai Yan couldn't help laughing.

The soldier standing guard looked at her curiously, confused - I had never seen a person climb a mountain and climb it so happily.

"And then there was Krakus. With the Son of God. Ai Yan whispered to herself as she walked, as if she was trying to remind herself not to forget this.

"More than ten years of icebergs and snowy regions have buried the best years of my life."

"How much I liked him in the past, and how much I hated him in those ten years."

"Although I don't know why I should hate him, what right do I have to hate him...... But I just hate him! ”

"At the entrance of the Jiafeng Ancient Road, he took the initiative to kiss me for the first time. Tell me that they will give me an explanation that I want. ”

"Xuan Yunzi also said that you will definitely give our mother and son an arrangement and an explanation."

"Today, I'm here."

"What will your promise be?"

Xue Shao stood on the top of the mountain, observing the big battlefield below the mountain with his goggles.

Zhang Cheng walked behind him, "Xue Shuai, Our Lady Kedun is here." ”

Xue Shao put away the binoculars, "Set up wine." ”

"Yes."

Ai Yan was already sweating a little, breathing, lowering his head, and crawling a little hard. As soon as I looked up, I saw him.

He was dressed in a military uniform, wearing a martial arts, carrying a sword, and holding his hands behind his back, standing under the banner of flying and domineering in the wind.

The instrument is high-spirited.

Heroic.

On the high horse.

Bastards!

"Can't you just come and give me a hand?!" Ai Yan shouted angrily.

Seeing each other again after many years, this was the first thing she said to Xue Shao.

Xue Shao smiled, walked down a small hillside, and held her arm.

"Still laughing? - Stinky man, I hate you to death! ”

She bit Xue Shao's arm coldly.

The little she-wolf does not change her dead nature.

Xue Shao quickly shook off and screamed miserably. The nearby scout was about to draw his sword as a reflex, but Zhang Cheng hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, and led them all quietly retreated.

"Is that an exaggeration?" Ai Yan was taken aback.

"There are injuries." He frowned and grinned, it seemed to be really painful.

Ai Yan inexplicably felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly reached out to help him, "Sit down, let me see." ”

"No need." Xue Shao breathed a sigh of relief, "Sit down!" ”

The two of them sat down opposite each other, facing each other.

Xue Shao poured two glasses of wine and handed her one, "Please." ”

The two looked at each other for a moment, unable to speak, as if they had all melted into this glass of wine.

Raise a glass and drink it all.

When the wine glass was put down, Ai Yan felt that all his emotions in the past ten years seemed to have been explained.

Whether it's love, hate, power, or a country, you can't remember, you can't forget, you can't grasp it, you can't let it go...... It's all become, and it's all gone.

The past cannot be traced, gather for a glass of wine.

Life, that's all.

Ai Yan never thought that when he faced Xue Shao again, he would be so silent. It's not my character at all, but I'm doing it now.

"Why don't you speak?" Xue Shao asked.

"I don't know where to start." Ai Yan said, "Is there anything you want to say to me?" ”

Xue Shao asked, "Do you like the Central Plains?" ”

Ai Yan fell silent again. She knew Xue Shao's intention by asking.

- He wants to take himself back to the Central Plains.

She took a deep breath, several times - how do I answer?

Xue Shao seemed to be very patient, just waiting quietly.

"I don't like it."

Ai Yan replied.

"Why don't you like it?" Xue Shao asked.

"I will never be able to share a man with other women like Moon Nu and Xuanyunzi, no matter how much I like this man." She replied calmly, "I can't live with a woman like Princess Taiping, it will be a nightmare." ”

"You didn't try, why did you dare to be so arbitrary?" Xue Shao asked.

"Why should I try?" Ai Yan smiled, "Don't forget, the Turks are originally wolf species. Aiyan is also a wolf, she is not a dog. ”

Xue Shao nodded, that's right, the phrase "Turks are originally wolf species" is recorded in the history books. Later generations will definitely not be able to understand this sentence when they see it, how can this kind of prose-like sentence appear in rigorous and serious history books?

Otherwise it is not prose. It's just telling a story.

"Come on."

Xue Shao stood up and walked to the highest part of the mountain, where the big army flag was planted.

Ai Yan followed him to this place, standing beside him.

He raised his hand and pointed to the vast grassland in front of him, "Do you like it?" ”

"That's where I was born and raised." Ai Yan said, "I don't like it for any reason." ”

"How about making you home?" Xue Shao turned his head and looked at her.

"It was my home, but you ruined her!" Ai Yan's tears suddenly burst out of her eyes, "300,000 people, how did you get it?" ”

Xue Shao stretched out a hand and gently wiped the tears from her eyelids, "If the Zhou army is defeated, what should you say when you hold Xue Shao's cold head?" ”

Ai Yan couldn't control his emotions anymore, and threw himself into Xue Shao's arms, crying profusely.

"Don't ask me!"

"I'm just a woman!"

"A woman who can't do anything, who can't do anything!"

For more than ten years, all the grievances, all the strength, all the love, hate, struggle and hysteria seem to be vented at this moment.

I have been sad for more than ten years, angry for more than ten years, lost and hesitant for more than ten years, and it turns out that what I have been longing for is nothing more than such an embrace......

She cried unreservedly.

He gently hugged her in his arms.

"Have you ever seriously thought about what you really want?"

She shook her head.

"Perhaps, I can tell you the answer."

Ai Yan raised his head and looked at him with teary eyes, "I don't know, can you know?" ”

"Freedom." Xue Shao said, "All I want is real freedom." ”

Ai Yan's mind suddenly fell into a frenzy of thought...... Is freedom, what I've been striving for for so many years, just freedom?

Looking back on this life, I was born in the capital of the Turkic Khanate but grew up in the Central Plains, and I have an infinite desire to return to the vast and warm steppe homeland that my father said. At that time, he was indeed very unfree, although his father was a noble county king, but that dignity was actually just a fig leaf for the ruin of the country and the family.

Finally, on the day of returning to the steppe, he was used by Fu Nian to recruit troops and horses to gather the old Turkic tribe. Later, he became the puppet of Gu Lu and Yuanzhen, and he didn't even let go of his own son, and he somehow became the son of a god.

More than ten years of icebergs and snow, more than ten years of struggle...... What I really want, it turns out, is really just poor "freedom"!

"Little she-wolf, if you don't want to go home with me, I'll give you this piece of grassland for thousands of miles, and let you be your home." He said.

She looked up, "Then I miss you, what should I do?" ”

"No one dares to stop the Turkic Virgin Kodun from visiting the capital." Xue Shao smiled, "Remember, from now on, you are free." Noble and free. ”

"Liberty ......," she chewed on these two words, "then can I raise seventeen or eighteen strong noodle heads and take turns to serve me every day?" ”

"Yes." He replied without hesitation.

"Bastard!" She was furious and looked like she was going to bite again, "If you agree, Krakus won't agree, he'll kill me!" ”

Xue Shao smiled, "If his name is still Krakus, he must go back to the Central Plains with me." ”

"Why?"

"Ashina Krakus, is the Turkic Ye Hu. After this war, the Turkic Khan, Ye Hu, and the special service, Qu Lusi, these people had to return to the capital with me, and they would never return to the steppe again. Xue Shao said, "I think this should be easy to understand." ”

"Then what if, his name is Xue Shenying?"

"Xue Shao's son, the Qianli Grassland is presumptuous with him!"