Chapter 208, Falling the Star

Five months have passed, which is the mid-autumn season. Although there were many good news on the battlefield, this day brought another news.

...but Beichen will drop the star.

General Yi Beichen, General Dingyuan, was surrounded and destroyed by the enemy. When the reinforcements were found, there were only piles of bones piled up. The body has collapsed, and only a few pieces of armor can prove its identity.

A few days later, Xinyi left the palace and finally returned to Yifu. Before he entered the door, he had heard a lot of crying. Her mind was muddled and couldn't tell what she was thinking, but she was just upset by the cry.

His bones returned to the capital and were transported back to the mansion. As soon as I arrived at the door, I already smelled the rotten stench.

It is said that it was half a month later that his body was found. By the time he was sent home... it had been nearly a month.

Xinyi still felt a little unbelievable at this time. Obviously, such a powerful person as Yi Beichen, such a powerful general... Why... why did he suddenly come back like this?

must be fake.

must be fake.

She stepped forward and saw that the part of the body that was not covered by the white cloth was rotten, and even her body was eaten incompletely by the scavengers. The accumulation of such meat cubes made Xinyi feel sick. You...how do you know it's him?" Xinyi turned his head in a stunned way and stared at the general who sent him back.

"General Yi has several fragments of armor hanging on his body... and... and there is this on his chest..." The man said, instead grabbing the white cloth covering his body. After a long time, it was not uncovered. Madam...you, you'd better not look at it..."

Xinyi bit his lip and said, "I want to see it."

The general is also helpless, "Then... you have to hold on." After saying that, he took a deep breath, uncovered the white cloth, turned his head, and couldn't even bear to look at it again.

His facial features have rotten and can't distinguish his appearance, and his white bones have been revealed in many places. The hands were hanging on both sides, and the armor on the chest had been broken, revealing the cloth of the underwear and the turned carrion and the broken white bones. And a piece of paper pinned under the broken cloth on his chest was particularly dazzling on him. Xinyi hesitantly stretched out his hand and paused for a while before twisting it up. Perhaps because of the corpse oil and blood stains, the paper has stuck to the scar on his chest. Xinyi's hand shook slightly, but it has torn a small part of it.

But...

Even if the handwriting on the paper has become blurred, she can still tell what it is. Because of such a thing... she couldn't know it.

Xinyi's scalp was numb, and in an instant, his breathing almost stopped nervously.

"husband..." She suddenly opened her mouth and stared at the body in front of her and muttered.

- That's the wedding letter, their wedding book.

Yes... Yi Beichen... is the thing that Yi Beichen has never left...

It was not until then that she believed it.

She stared at the corpse in front of her that was ulcerated and could not even distinguish human form. Suddenly, she couldn't say a word more. Xin Yi wanted to come forward to see him, but she had just taken a step, but her legs were so soft that she couldn't walk any more step. He knelt down, but he couldn't help saying, "Husband...husband!!"

"Madam, don't do this. People can't come back to life. Madam, it's important for you to take care of yourself!!" Seeing this, the maid beside her hurriedly pulled her.

Xinyi struggled to move forward, but was stopped and could only look at his body from afar. Tears confused her eyes in an instant, and her body trembled slightly. Finally, she knelt on the ground, leaving only crying.

She once thought that it would be good if Yi Beichen died... If she died, the unhappiness and hatred in her heart could be eliminated. After all, he was the murderer who killed Mingyan and the sinner who framed A Jin... It was he who destroyed the future of himself and A Jin! But... when the person who should have resented really turned into a corpse in front of her, and there was no last meeting that flashed in her mind, he turned back and whispered.

'Xinyi, I don't think... you will come back.'

Even if he was domineering and vicious, when he said this, Xinyi's heart could not help but feel a sharp pain. In the final analysis, he is his wife, and everything about himself should belong to him. But... what right does such a self have to hate him? Originally, I wanted to wait for him to come back from the expedition, alienate the relationship between the two, and then make a long-term plan.

But in the final analysis, isn't it because of your cowardice?

At this time, there is no way to make up for the debt she owes to him... In this life, she owes him!

"No..." She shook her head slowly, and tears rolled down from her eyes, "I Beichen... Yi Beichen!!" At this time, she was crazy and wanted to struggle to come forward, but her knees were sore and weak. She struggled a few steps but fell down: "I Beichen... You lied! How did you die... How can you die!?

Xinyi ignored people's obstruction and just wanted to rush to his side, but looked at his festering body, but fell to the ground again. Yi Beichen... You said... You said that if you died, I was afraid that I would be sad because of it, didn't you... What about now? What about now!? Don't you care if I'm sad... Yi Beichen, come back!!" Xinyi put his head on the coffin of the morgue, clenched his fist tightly against the cold lacquer wood, and sobbed.

I'm back...

I Beichen, I'm back, but... why are you leaving?

"I want you to come back... I don't want you to leave me... Did you hear me... Did you hear me!!"

The maid next to her wanted to help her up, but she pushed her away. He just held the coffin and couldn't stop crying.

I don't know how long it took before she gradually recovered and calmed down. She looked at him and said softly, "I'm sorry..." Even if he couldn't hear it anymore, Xinyi still whispered vaguely: "Second brother... I'm sorry..."

But no matter how much you blame yourself, it's useless. This time, he abandoned her... It's him...

will never come back.

Xinyi was pulled away by his maid at this time, but he was still paralyzed. Looking at the broken corpse in the coffin, two lines of tears slowly slipped down his cheek. For a moment, I couldn't speak. I just looked at him in a frenze and kept saying: Second brother... Second brother.

I really want to give him back everything I owe him, but Xinyi is clear that all this is a luxury. She owed him so much that she felt that she was almost addicted to self-blame and guilt and could no longer breathe.

"Second brother... Xinyi won't leave, just stay here... accompany you." She looked at his festering body and repeated it over and over again, although he might not have heard it for a long time. She can only use this to relieve the depression in her heart, as if this can relieve her guilt a little.

He changed into plain clothes and knelt in the mourning hall, just looking at his coffin in a daze.

Yi Beichen died for the country, and the emperor made him a loyal general on the fourth grade. He also sent plaques and gold and silver as comfort.

But so what? What's the use of giving the dead a high honor? It's just a look.

Xinyi realized for the first time that this gold and silver may be the most useless thing in the world. What can it buy? If possible, she would rather have nothing but hope that Yi Beichen can come back alive.

Even if she doesn't like that person very much, even if he has done so many excessive things... at least he is her husband.

Enough...Everything is enough.

Xinyi looked at the swaying white wax firelight and thought so.

What does the matter in the court have to do with her? Who is the emperor... and what does it have to do with her? She doesn't want to think about anything. She just hopes to stay widowed for him. In the future, this life...

After three days of being so muddle-headed, it's time to send his bones back to his hometown.

Go back, go back to Jizhou, go back to the original year, back to the starting point of everything. Perhaps Zhuo Xinyi's life should have been like this. In the end, it turned out to be the same result.

The servants prepared clothes for her, and El Beiyou also came and had to send him back together. Because of the death of Yi Beichen, as the eldest brother, he had to stay at least for several months before he could return to Beijing. However, if he does something, Xinyi can save a lot of worry. Just as Xinyi was about to get on the bus, someone came and blocked her footsteps.

yi Beiyou saw the visitor but did not stop him. He also made some servants, saying that he would lead the team first and catch up with her later.

If it had been earlier, Xinyi might have sighed about the thoughtfulness of the big brother Yi family, but at this time, she felt that such a practice was completely unnecessary.

She did not look at the man who came in a hurry, but stepped back three steps to distance the two.

Mu Fangjin took a step closer, and she took a step back until he gave up and stood in place. She also stopped her heels and lowered her head to look at him. If you have anything to say, but just say it, my concubine will take my husband home, which won't take too long.

He exhaled heavily: "Xinyi, why are you suddenly so cold to me?"

"I was too reckless before, so I made him angry, so this time I will definitely follow the woman's way and dare not cross the boundary again. Please forgive me."

"It seems that you are determined this time... Are you ready to be a widow for him?" Mu Fangjin whispered, "I thought you would not be so impulsive when you heard the news of his death... I heard that you almost fainted from crying when you saw his body. Is this true?"

Xinyi lowered his head and just bit his lower lip.

"You seem to have lost some weight, but it's important to take care of yourself."

"Instead of caring about a widow, it's better to take good care of yourself. No matter what happens to my concubine, I will be someone else's woman in my life. Her tone was particularly calm and quiet as water: "Brother, please take care of yourself."

His eyebrows tightened: "Xinyi, listening to you, are you really going to be widowed for him all his life!? You are only 17 years old... 17 years old! Do you just admit that you will be alone all your life?