Phoenix Shadow Coming From the Sky: Third, what is the limit of the world 4

The night is as dark as ink, and the stars and the moon are as silver.

Feng Duying lifts the curtain, walks out of the tent, and looks across at the city of Xuan in the night.

As long as this city is taken, the Northern Expedition will be over, and the troops will return to the dynasty soon.

Thinking about the people and things in the imperial capital, my heart sank.

In the city of Xuan on the opposite side, there is the princess of Beihai, who is so beautiful in the world. Thinking of this, my heart hurts, I can't help but take a deep breath, I can hear the sound of Qi Zha's footsteps, that is the arrival of patrolling soldiers, with a little step, people have reached the top of the tent. Sitting down cross-legged, looking up, he saw a crescent moon like a hook, and the bright silver light sprinkled down. In this place where the army is stationed, even in the scorching summer, it looks a bit chilly.

Sitting quietly for a long time, she reached out and took out something from her bosom, staring at it for a long time.

It was a round jade pendant, but it was not a whole jade pendant. It was inlaid with three colors of white, black and green jade. The three-color beautiful jade inlaid is smooth and seamless, just like nature. The periphery of the jade pendant is wrapped in a layer of silver skin. A silver chain is strung on the jade head. With the chain hooked on the fingertips, the jade pendant hangs down. When the arm is raised, the jade pendant exudes a soft and lustrous luster under the moonlight. Passing the jade pendant, looking at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky, I suddenly remembered the eve of the expedition.

I remember that night, he came alone, and the two sat opposite each other under the pomegranate tree, drinking a pot of fine wine together. The moonlight at that time was also like this night, and the cool evening wind blew by from time to time, blowing durian flowers down and falling on his robe. It becomes a beautiful painting.

The jade pendant on the silver chain swayed gently in the evening wind, bringing a faint light, which made people couldn't help but touch it, but when the hand reached it, it couldn't be grasped, and the palm was empty.

"Accumulated stones are like jade, and pine trees are like emerald green. Lang Yan is unique, there is no other in the world." Muttering a soft sigh, he put the jade pendant in his arms, suddenly felt something, turned his head, and saw sitting on the top of the tent next to him. Looking at Dong Shixiu, the posture seems to have been there for a long time. [Note ○1]

"Brother." Feng Duying was startled.

Dong Shixiu didn't agree, but just looked at her with eyes as deep as night.

"Brother, why are you here?" Feng Duying calmed down and stood up.

Dong Shixiu suddenly smiled, and the smile floated on the surface like a thin layer of paper, "Fenghuang, the sound of flying flowers and falling leaves within a few feet can't be hidden from your ears, even if I'm so close to you tonight Feel something."

"Think about something and get out of your mind." Feng Duying said lightly.

Dong Shixiu didn't expect her to admit it directly, he was slightly startled, thinking about the expression on her holding the jade pendant to shine on the moon just now, and said: "When I was in the palace, I once heard a court lady sing a song .”

"Huh?" Feng Duying raised his eyebrows, wondering why his brother said this at this time.

"Send off the waterlogged lakes. The Yangtze River should not be full, it's the tears of the Nong! But what is the promise! There is no limit to the people in the world, it's just for you!" Dongshi Xiumu Zhufeng Duying read slowly. [Note ○2]

Feng Duying was shocked, feeling a little flustered.

"That's a good sentence, 'What is the limit! There is no limit to the people in the world, only for you!'" Dong Shixiu looked away again, and turned his head to look in the direction of Xuancheng, "Perhaps, even the eldest princess of Beihai It is as beautiful as a fairy descending to earth, and the fourth child will not like it."

Feng Duying was stunned for a moment, looking at Dong Shixiu, he wanted to speak but was speechless.

Dong Shixiu got up and jumped to the top of the tent where Feng Duying was, and pulled her to sit down again.

"Phoenix." He raised his arm, and his thick palm passed through the long black waterfall-like hair and fell on the back of Feng Duying's neck, with a deep sigh in his voice, "I sometimes think that maybe I did something wrong back then. No matter where you go or what you do, you should not take you with you, but you followed us to study literature and martial arts, ride horses and shoot arrows together, kill people and conquer the world together... The way you walk is different from that of ordinary women. Maybe, you should Raise you in the boudoir, learn some poetry and music, learn embroidery and cooking, grow into a delicate girl like Princess Scarlet, and then choose a stalwart man for you, marry him, stay with him, and be with him It may be best for a daughter's family to have children."

Hearing this, Feng Duying looked at Dong Shixiu in surprise, "Why did Big Brother say that?"

Dong Shixiu didn't answer immediately, but just looked at her, under the hazy moonlit night, his eyes seemed unfathomable.

"Brother, how could it be your fault? It was my own choice and the path I walked." Feng Duying said, pulling off Dong Shixiu's hand from the back of his neck, and then lenient his elder brother The thick hand is in my hand, "And I don't think there is anything wrong with me today. I may lose some things that ordinary women have, but I also have many things that ordinary women can't match."

Dong Shixiu's gaze shifted from Feng Duying's face to his hand, and he held her hand behind his back. The hand in the palm looks very beautiful in appearance, as white and slender as most boudoir daughters, but you can feel the difference when holding it, it is not smooth and soft, nor can it be embroidered or twisted, but strong and powerful, capable of crushing stones into foam The sword kills the enemy.

"Fenghuang, if I am competent as an elder brother, today you should be grinding ink and dressing your husband-in-law in a mansion in the imperial capital, or humming nursery rhymes in front of your children's bed. Not here, Siege the city and kill the enemy in this armored siege."

"Brother, do you still remember what the second brother said?" Feng Duying frowned, "What you said is very good, but it may not be what I want, and it may not be suitable for me. "

Dong Shixiu didn't seem to hear her words, he just looked up at the night sky in a daze, and after a long time, he said in an extremely low and melancholy tone: "Fenghuang'er, brother, did you ever think about letting you be different from ordinary people?" Like a woman, marry a husband and have a bunch of children. But..." He held her hand so tightly that Feng Duying felt pain, but she didn't pull it away, nor did she make a sound.

"Fenghuang'er, you are no longer an ordinary woman along the way. You are the 'White Phoenix' that the world pays attention to. You are also a general with a heavy army in your hand. You are still the princess of my Eastern Dynasty. Those who are willing to be with you A married man, maybe he likes your status and power, maybe he likes your beauty..." He held her hand more and more tightly, the knuckles turned white, showing the severity of the force, but Feng Duying still didn't Twitching, "Maybe... some of them also like you, but what they like is just you, who is beautiful and beautiful, and they don't really understand you. Marry these people, spend time with them, and wait for them to see you and make a decision." Even better than a man, seeing your face not changing before the mountain of **** corpses, I must have feared you more than liked you at that time, and turned to avoid and alienate you. If this is the case, how can the eldest brother let go, and how can he be at ease."

"Brother, there are many people who love dragons in the world, so I naturally know." After hearing what his elder brother said, Feng Duying was not surprised, "I know what elder brother said, and I also understand your painstaking efforts, brother and sister. There is no need for such an explanation." She looked down at the palm of her brother who was holding her hand. Since she was a child, her brother has been holding her tightly like this all the way. No matter when or what the situation is, he never relaxes. . She raised her left hand to cover her elder brother's hand, exerted strength, and held it tightly, "Brother, I said that even though we are not related by blood, you are the closest person I have in this world, and I treat you like a father and a brother."

Dong Shixiu was shocked, and moved his eyes to look at her. There was a moment of sadness in his eyes, but they were as fast as lightning. At that moment, Feng Duying lowered his head and didn't see it. He raised his left hand, landed on the top of Feng Duying's head, stroked it all the way along the left temple, past the ear, and then stopped on the chin, exerted a slight force with his palm, gently lifted that face, his eyes slowly looked away from the smooth The full forehead slid across, looking at the beautiful and slightly sharp eyebrows...

As father as brother...Of course he knows that she is closest to him, and she regards him as the most important thing, but the closest and most important thing is just like father and brother, and it will never be anything else. "Hehe..." With a slight smile, he pulled her closer, closed his eyes, and rested his chin on the top of her head, "Fenghuang, my silly Fenghuang..." He smiled, but was full of desolation and sorrow.

When exactly? Was it... when she was alone and surrounded by many enemies, and her life and death were unpredictable?

It was the first and only time in my life that I was so terrified.

Was... when she slashed through the Feiling Tower, which was full of Yingyan, with a single sword?

The shocked and angry gaze was like a bright sword, which had been nailed to his heart and could not be pulled out.

It was... on the wedding night that year, the child who had just changed the girl's skirt and hairstyle, she turned her head and looked away as if she didn't care at all, but she just held her belt nervously with both hands, in a kind of way. When he said to him in a very disdainful tone, "After my eldest brother marries his wife, I will not be the closest person."

I forgot how to answer at that time, but I still remember the heartache and sadness that suddenly came to my heart at that moment.

Or was it when... when he was young, he was destined to take over the infant her from his hands?

"Phoenix." There was a glimmer of light in the eyes of the mighty hero, but he gently closed his eyes to hide it. His voice was so low and gentle, as if he was not the emperor of Dadong, but just a loving person. sister's brother. "Feng'er, brother knows what you're thinking."

Feng Duying suddenly looked up at him, with shock in his eyes.

Dong Shixiu paused, looked into those eyes, suddenly felt his lips and tongue were dry, and it was difficult to speak.

After a long time, Feng Duying said, "Brother, don't take what your second brother said to you, I made it clear in the palace that day."

"No, Fenghuang'er..." Dong Shixiu shook his head.

But Feng Duying interrupted him, "Brother, there may always be some regrets in one's life. But up to now, I have nothing to regret, and I have nothing to start over. I am very glad that I walked with you like this back then, so the eight of us have such a bond. At this point today, we can still be the same as before, which is rare throughout the ages."

Facing Shangfeng Duying's eyes, those eyes are always so clear and firm without any confusion. Dong Shixiu sighed deeply in his heart, rubbed his palm affectionately on her cheek, and then fell down, holding her shoulder, "Fenghuang, brother wants you to be happy, you don't regret what you look like today, but it's been a long time since I saw your happy face .As long as it can make you happy, it will make you and..." His chest shrank, his breath was unbearable, and the second half of the sentence got stuck in his throat.

"Brother, you..."

Dong Shixiu suddenly hugged her into his arms, clasped his arms tightly, his eyes penetrated the night, and fell to the distant, deep and boundless void. "Feng'er, elder brother is already the emperor, there is nothing in this world that the emperor can't do. Only when elder brother asks clearly can he agree."

"Brother..." Feng Duying was startled suddenly.

"Stop talking, Fenghuang'er." The greatest and most honorable emperor in Dadong buried his head in his sister's hair, his voice seemed to come from an abyss of hundreds of feet, so muffled and vague, "We'll talk about it when we get back to the imperial capital..."

Feng Duying put down his raised hand, and then hugged his brother quietly.

Back to the imperial capital...to ask...

Who is he going to ask? Could it be...

Heartbeat suddenly increased, and then slowly calmed down.

Brother, you are not only an emperor, there are many things in this world that even gods can't do anything about.

That night, the conversation ended here.

In the middle of the night, the two returned to their respective camps, but they did not sleep all night.

And that night, they were not the only ones who couldn't sleep all night, there were even more sleepless people in Xuancheng.

[Note ○1] "Southern Dynasty Yuefu? Shenxian Song? Baishilang Song"

[Note ○2] "Southern Dynasty Yuefu? Wu Sheng Songs? Huashan Ji"