Pei Ji drank some wine and looked confused and stubborn. He lay on the ice bed for a while, held the girl in his arms, and murmured like a madman: "Zhuzhu, I'm sorry for making you sleep so cold."

The bed, you are obviously so afraid of the cold on weekdays."

Silence, deathly silence, he was forever trapped in the winter of the first year of Shunde.

There was a slight fluctuation in Pei Ji's eyes. He looked at the girl and seemed to realize something. The gentle smile became stiffer and stiffer. The cold blue light hit his eyelashes, leaving a shadow, which was the cold that was about to freeze into ice.

Frost.

He was motionless, and there was nothing but stagnant water in his heart.

The first seven days have passed, and ten days have passed, and Pei Ji still refuses to bury Wei Yunzhu.

He just ordered people to put all the objects related to her into the secret room and locked everything, including himself.

The entire city of Chang'an was in an uproar, and no one dared to mention Princess Yun'an's name again, because anyone who disobeyed the order would die.

On the eleventh day, Pei Ji finally stepped out of the secret room. It seemed that everything was back to the way it was before, and that everything would soon be forgotten by people.

There was unrest in the court, and Pei Ji punished the Feng family with thunderous means. Some officials in the south were dissatisfied and took the lead in provoking a turmoil in the court.

But Pei Ji was very cruel this time. In just a few days, he calmed down the situation in the south again. He killed several arrogant lieutenants to scare the monkeys, and even showed no mercy to the famous General Dingyuan.

, no official in the court dared to say another word.

In fact, since Princess Yun'an left, the chief assistant's temperament has become even more cruel, moody, and can be said to kill without blinking an eye.

When the sky was just beginning to glow today, he led a group of Jin Wu guards into the Feng family. On the charge of training private soldiers and intending to rebel, he bloodbathed 121 people in the Feng family.

To be left alive is to be described as tragic.

This situation of causing trouble in the upper court and killing people in the lower court lasted for nearly a month. Above the court, all the civil and military officials were all cautious and had no time to worry about saving their lives.

Pei Ji has been staying in the Cabinet Office for several days without sleep. His gloomy eyes are filled with fragile blood, but he still refuses to let go of the government affairs at hand.

Li Yi looked very worried. He hesitated for a long time before he knelt down and said, "Sir, let's go back to your house and rest for the night. If this continues, your body will not be able to bear it!"

The man above him didn't even raise his head. Li Yi sighed secretly and finally gave up: "Sir, I'm begging you, I'm sorry, you can't ruin your body like this. I'll kowtow to you!"

"Get up." came a low and hoarse voice, it was Lord Chief Assistant.

Li Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got up to make arrangements for returning home.

The sky was already getting dark. Because it was winter, the palace lanterns on the road had been lit up early. Pei Ji looked up to the east and suddenly remembered this time last year.

To the east of the Cabinet Office is the Yun'an Hall, and the sun rises in the east. In the past, whenever he looked to the east from the Cabinet, he felt that it was his only hope in this life.

However, the sun will probably never rise from the east again.

The carriage stopped in front of the house outside Yong'an Lane. Pei Ji subconsciously stood under the locust tree and waited for a moment. He paused and suddenly remembered that the man was holding a dim yellow wind lantern in the gentle dusk of the setting sun.

The sweet little girl waiting for me will never come again.

She lay on a cold bed of ice, no longer alive.

A tear slipped silently from the corner of the man's eye. His steps were shaky, and his former majesty was gone.

The empty house is full of traces of the little princess’s stay, but where are the people? Everything is there, but the people are gone...

There is a package of sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the low table. In the past, Pei Ji would bring a package of newly made sweet-scented osmanthus cake to the little girl every day when he passed by Baoningzhai.

He was not here a few days ago, and before leaving, he gave many warnings, telling Li Yi not to forget the daily osmanthus cake. This bag must have been left behind by her on the day she went up the mountain.

The man's hand gently touched the oil paper and did not move for a long time. It seemed that the oil paper still contained the residual warmth left by the little princess's fingertips. He desperately wanted to feel the temperature that belonged to her.

Gently uncovering it, there were only two pieces left out of six pieces. Pei Ji laughed dumbly, the little greedy cat...

Amusement froze at the corner of his mouth, and huge loneliness swept over him. He picked up the osmanthus cake with his knuckles, trembling slightly, and slowly and stiffly brought it to his mouth.

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake was no longer good. It had been stored for more than half a month. It was not only sweet but also tasted like oil. But it was so sweet that it made his eyes sore.

In the past, he always felt that pastries were too sweet. When he was a child, he always wanted to eat them because he couldn't eat them. Seeing other children eating sweet foods, he always thought that when he became famous, he would have to eat them every day.

eat.

Later, he really became famous, but found that he didn't like sweets at all, maybe he was born with a low life.

The taste in his mouth was obviously sweet, but the more Pei Ji tasted it, the more bitter it became. At this moment, he clearly realized that the seemingly weak little girl had completely escaped his control in the most decisive way.

.

He showed no trace of mercy and was so decisive that he exchanged his life for freedom and gave him a fatal blow that cut out his heart and lungs.

At this moment, he felt that the pain in his heart was unbearable. Every time he breathed in and out, he felt a throbbing pain in his lungs, which lasted for a long time. This tearing feeling seemed to swallow him alive in the next second.

Damn it, he couldn't see the future and couldn't imagine how he would spend every day without the little princess.

A servant's voice came from outside: "Sir, the food is warmed, can I bring it in for you?"

Pei Ji's eyes as if they were dead, suddenly became a little fierce. He stood up and moved forward, and opened the door violently. The "whoop" sound frightened the boy who was delivering food outside the door. If he wasn't prepared, he would

He ate the food in his hand completely.

He knelt down suddenly and trembled all over: "You deserve to die! You deserve to die!"

Pei Ji frowned, with a hint of anger in his eyes, but at the end he didn't say anything, threw up his sleeves and strode away.

He was a little impatient, and those inexplicable anger seemed to surge from his blood vessels, and he couldn't suppress it no matter what. He couldn't help but think that he should get busy. It would be fine if he got busy. When he gets busy, it won't be in his mind.

The shadow of the little princess is everywhere.

However, there was no way to escape. From now on, he would wander alone in this cold and dark world, and he would never see the smile he dreamed of until he died.

The light that belonged to him died.

His little girl is dead!

He didn't know where he was going, he didn't dare to go to the secret room, and he didn't even dare to stay in the outer house anymore. He was like a tortoise, running around like a mouse.

Walking out of Yong'an Lane, the uneasy feeling of being on the verge of collapse did not stop.
Chapter completed!