Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 5

Huo Mingzhu quietly put away the cards, keeping her face calm.

Baili Zonglu was rescued, and both her uncle and her personal girl, Sulu, were very grateful to Baili Zonglu. Even if she had doubts in her heart, she did not have enough evidence to prove that the invasion of the Tartars was someone Designed with care.

The most important thing is that Baili Zonglu is stationed in Xiangyang, and most of his subordinates are the Luo family army. If she confronted him with this military badge, wouldn't she be seeking her own death?
The convoy moved forward unhurriedly, Huo Mingzhu opened the curtain, and saw Baili Zonglu sitting on the horseback, dressed in military uniform, handsome and handsome, with outstanding momentum, the blood on the armor was still wet, but he didn't care...

Probably feeling her gaze, Baili Zonglu turned his head and met Huo Mingzhu's staring eyes. He was about to react when Huo Mingzhu had already closed the curtain.

He Fang, the personal guard next to Baili Zonglu, just happened to see this scene, and said with a smile: "Master, doesn't the eldest lady of General Huo's family like you very much? She saved her life, and she didn't even show any signs of it, could it be?" Scared out of your wits?"

"Perhaps." Baili Zonglu just chuckled, thinking of the first sentence Huo Mingzhu asked in his arms for no reason. She asked if today is the first day of March in the 25th year of Tianyou... If she hadn't been frightened, who would have said that? Can't remember the day?
"However, Miss Huo is really beautiful. I have never seen a girl more handsome than her in my subordinate's life!" He Fang said with a smile.

The other guard, Xie Ming, lashed out with a whip, just right on He Fang's armor, and spat angrily: "I've been in the barracks for a long time, and I haven't seen a woman in 800 years. Can you believe what you say, He Fang? Just now!" You can kill so hard, but you don't even bother to look at the beauty!"

"Thank you fat man, you are so greedy! Hahaha!"

The soldiers who had just won the battle were not forgiving, and they made some harmless jokes. Baili Zonglu listened to it a lot, never stopped, and rarely answered. His eyes were always focused Watch the road ahead.

The carriage continued to move forward at a leisurely pace, Huo Mingzhu was harassed by assassins just now, everyone was tired, and no one spoke during the rush, so Huo Mingzhu also closed her eyes and prepared to rest.

But as soon as she closed her eyes, there was only darkness in front of her eyes. She seemed to be trapped in the sarcophagus of the underground imperial mausoleum again. She couldn't move, look, or speak. She could only feel death creeping over her body bit by bit. whole body……

"Dug out the eyes of the guilty concubine, inject them with mercury, break her bones, and lock them with black iron!"

"Give the sinful concubine dumb medicine, this king forbids her to speak again!"

It hurts, the whole body hurts, the most painful thing is the heart, the love and trust in the past was destroyed overnight, the lover who thought he was a hero suddenly became worse than a beast, and all the pain was imposed on her!The sword pierced into the flesh, and the flesh and blood flew across the body, leaving only a sharp pain.

"No!" Huo Mingzhu opened her eyes suddenly, panting heavily, with cold sweat dripping down her forehead, she could hardly sit still.

"Miss?" Su Hui was startled awake by her scream, and hurriedly stepped forward to pat her on the back, "What's wrong, miss, did you have a nightmare? Are you disturbed by those assassins?"

When Huo Mingzhu was kneeling beside her, she grasped her hand. She died without a single person by her side. The Pingyang Hou Mansion was confiscated, and she didn't even have a single relative!
Seeing Huo Mingzhu's bright black eyes fixed on one spot, Su Hui became a little frightened, she waved a hand in front of her eyes, frowned and said: "Miss, you...how are you so weird?" ? Ever since you encountered an assassin, you have been acting strangely. Could it be that you are really haunted? Miss?"

"I..." Huo Mingzhu was about to speak when a familiar voice came from outside the curtain of the carriage and asked with concern: "Miss Huo, are you alright?"

Hearing this voice, this familiar tone, Huo Mingzhu's body trembled even more, the terrifying figure in the dream was close at hand, he was haunting her like a ghost, making her restless all the time.

"He...he's outside..." Huo Mingzhu pinched Sulu's hand painfully.

Naturally, Su Hui didn't understand anything, and thought that Huo Mingzhu was afraid, so she hurriedly opened the curtain on one side of the car, and said to the people outside: "Ninth Prince, my lady has a nightmare, I don't know if the military doctor has any medicine for calming the nerves. Do you want to ask for it to serve the young lady?"

Baili Zonglu sat on the horseback, blocked the sunlight from the car window like a magic barrier, and cast all the shadows on Huo Mingzhu. Huo Mingzhu's mind was not yet clear, she flinched and hid in the opposite direction, shouting: "Put down the curtain! Put it down!"

"My lord, this..." Su Yu looked at Baili Zonglu in embarrassment, she didn't dare because there was a difference between superiority and inferiority.

Baili Zonglu's gaze completely covered Huo Mingzhu, and his phoenix eyes narrowed suspiciously, but he still signaled Sulu to put down the curtain: "Do it. Ms. Huo might be frightened, so bear with it a little longer." We will arrive in Beijing in the next day, and the medicinal materials in the army are crude, so let the army doctor try it first."

"Thank you Ninth Prince!" Su Yu kept thanking Baili Zonglu.After putting down the curtain, seeing that Huo Mingzhu's mood had stabilized a bit, Su Hui sighed angrily, and said softly: "Miss, miss, that's our savior, Ninth Prince, why are you so scared like you saw a ghost?" Like? The Ninth Prince's temper is so good that there is nothing to say, otherwise, you were so reckless just now, he would have punished us...Miss, miss? Are you listening! "

Huo Mingzhu's gaze gathered again, her face full of sorrow and despair, she slightly pulled the corners of her lips, half crying and smiling: "Sulu, I just dreamed that I was dead..."

After hearing this, Su Hui breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward to help Huo Mingzhu calm down, and coaxed: "So it's really a nightmare...Okay, miss, don't be afraid, it's just a nightmare. Look, Miss, you are alive and well, and the Ninth Prince, the god of war in Dayong, is escorting us back to Beijing! How can such a good thing happen after death?"

Huo Mingzhu's throat was blocked, and she couldn't say some words. She wanted to say, Sulu, not only I died, but also my grandmother, uncle, cousin Yunxi, you...all of them died, but the villain lived. Okay, they smiled at me triumphantly, and said they would build a merit monument for me...

What's even more frightening is that she clearly knew that this was not a nightmare, that villain, he was by their side, and had been dormant since she returned to Beijing, waiting to put them to death!However, the villain turned into a saint and used his noble and great identity as a cover. No one would believe her even if she told her.

……

At noon, the team stopped to bury the pot for cooking, and the smoke curled up in the blue sky and white day. Huo Mingzhu was resting on a big rock in a secluded place, and there was a sound of footsteps behind her. She looked back and saw Baili Zonglu taking a step He walked towards her step by step, still dressed in military uniform, with neither joy nor anger on his face.

Huo Mingzhu stood up abruptly, before Baili Zonglu could open her mouth, her phoenix eyes narrowed dangerously, and she spoke first: "Miss Huo just sat down and had to leave again? Isn't it inconvenient for her legs and feet? If I'm not mistaken If so, Miss Huo seems to be very afraid of me?"

(End of this chapter)