You can't go

  It snowed heavily for several days in a row, and the weather became even colder.

  The snow on the tree was so thick that it bent the branches, and the snow in the yard had frozen into hard ice blocks. It's hard to walk on them without slipping.

  Even a person with good feet and hands is still like this, let alone Xiao Zongrong who relies on crutches to walk. Going out and getting dirty clothes would also trouble Qiao Yan to wash them. On such a cold day, just thinking about it makes me not want to bear it, so I'd rather stay in the house and not go out.

  Take a look at the book, if there's nothing else to do, just follow Chao Yan to embroider flowers. Anyway, learning gold needle is just practicing hand flexibility!

  Jingchu occasionally comes to visit, apart from reporting on the progress of Wu Mingyuan's rehabilitation, it's just to talk about the movements in the imperial court. Apart from these matters, Xiao Zongrong basically doesn't give them time alone together like before.

  They started keeping a distance from each other, politely but awkwardly. Chu Qingchuan was depressed and couldn't bear it, pitifully begging her with his eyes, but Xiao Zongrong remained unmoved. He kept holding Cui Yan by his side, making Chu Qingchuan unable to say anything. After sitting in silence for a while, he got up and left.

  After a few times, Cui Yan also noticed it and quietly asked her: "Rong Rong sister, did you have a fight with the young master?"

  Hou: "No!" Xiao replied calmly and naturally, holding up a medical book and following the acupoints to give himself an injection.

  "Didn't you guys have a fight? How come I feel like there's something weird between you two! Master used to smile all over his face when he saw you, but these past few days his eyebrows are almost furrowed into a '川' shape!" Cui Yan exclaimed in puzzlement.

  Xiao Congrong's eyes were fixed on the book, seemingly not hearing Qiao Yan's words, carefully pinching the needle. Qiao Yan didn't dare disturb her and quietly left.

  Xiao Zongrong continued to stab himself all the way down, stopping only when he couldn't bear it anymore. He took out a handkerchief to wipe away the blood that had seeped out, and suddenly felt a sense of irritability in his heart.

  "Friend or companion for life... which one would you choose?"

  When she thought of asking Chu Qingxian this question, her face changed color, and she felt that her heart was still aching!

  Why can we forgive as friends but not as life partners?

  She knew she was being overly obsessive, but couldn't help distinguishing between the two.

  Friends are two independent individuals who respect each other's personal space and emotions, even if they occasionally do something wrong to each other.

  With someone she wants to spend the rest of her life with, she thinks that being able to get to this point proves that they already have a very deep emotional connection. Not to mention sharing life and death together, at least they should be able to share happiness and hardship together.

  She thinks she is not an unreasonable person, nor does she refuse to give the other party space. These should be based on mutual respect. If you have something difficult, tell me first and we will discuss it together. If we can solve it, we will solve it together; if not, we will think of another way...

  What she hates most is doing something irreparable under the guise of love and then saying sorry, just this once...

  There was once a second time, and then more and more... She is strict with herself and meticulous about her work, but as her cousin said, she has low emotional intelligence, too soft-hearted... What she feels she can't bear is this repeated compromise and forgiveness...

  She hated it when others took advantage of her weaknesses, and in her eyes, that's exactly what Chu did, so he unknowingly crossed a line with her, causing the door to her heart, which had already been slightly ajar, to be tightly shut again.

  Let's be friends! Xiao Congrong answered this question for him, so keeping a distance is a matter of course. This way, no matter what Chu Qingkuang did to wrong her, she felt that she could say lightly: "I forgive you! We're still friends!"

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  Wu Mingyuan's efficiency was indeed very high, and it didn't take long to investigate the Crown Prince's framing of loyal officials.

  In this campaign to capture the assassins and purge the rebels, including the sixty-three members of Xiao's family, more than two hundred people were framed by the Crown Prince and put to death. The rest who were implicated with lighter charges also numbered over a hundred...

  The scale is so large and the impact is so wide that Emperor Wu Zong, who read the memorial, regretted his mistake in trusting the Crown Prince, which led to the wrongful conviction and death of many loyal and good people. He is guilty!

  Wu Zetian wept, then, upholding justice and destroying her kin, ordered the imperial guards to take the Crown Prince into custody in the Clan Temple, where he would be imprisoned for life. The rest of his family members and children were demoted to commoner status and exiled to remote regions by the Ministry of Justice.

  Guo's family embezzled the national treasury, instigated the eldest prince to harm loyal officials, destroyed the country's pillars, and had an unscrupulous heart... The whole family was beheaded.

  Xiao's family re-examined the case, and the original confession was that Zhou Pei had framed a loyal official, forcing him to confess under torture, which would not be counted. Zhou Pei disregarded national law, brutally tortured loyal officials, his crime was extremely heinous, in order to comfort the spirits of the many officials who were wrongly killed by him, he was sentenced to death by dismemberment.

  Zhou Pei heard the imperial edict and knew that he had no chance of survival. To avoid suffering physical punishment, he knocked his head against a pillar and died.

  The news was sent back to the palace, and Emperor Wu II roared with a trembling voice: "There's no such good thing! You want to die for nothing? Do you dream?! Drag him out, flog his corpse three hundred times in front of all the officials and soldiers of the heavenly prison, let everyone remember this lesson for me. My ministers cannot die unjustly!"

  This move naturally regained a lot of reputation for the royal family, and with such a "wise ruler", it is only natural that all the generals would be loyal to the country and the king.

  Zhou Pei was flogged to death and fed to dogs, Zhou Guogong's eldest son died and his daughter was exiled. That night, he died of a broken heart. The people in the mansion looted everything and scattered in all directions!

  Poor Duke Zhou struggled all his life, and the family property he worked hard for was gone in one night. His body was still buried by Jingzhao Yin with a kind heart, not calculating suspicion. Compared to the funeral of his youngest son Zhou Qin who died of poisoning a few months ago, Duke Zhou's funeral was even more miserable... If he knew about it after death, I wonder what his mood would be!

  Xiao family's betrayal and treason were identified as a wrongful case, after rehabilitation, the Xiao family was recognized as loyal and heroic. Xiao Lao Houye was posthumously titled Zhonglie Dingyuan Hou, Xiao Lideng was posthumously titled Dingyuan Dajiangjun, and others such as He Feng were posthumously titled Zhongyi Furen.

  The most ridiculous thing is Xiao Yu Fu's posthumous title, this woman who lost face for the Xiao family in Tianlao was actually given the posthumous title of "Chastity", which made Xiao Congrong almost choke with rage and shake his head in dismay. The dark humor of Wu Emperor II is really too much!

  To the only surviving Xiao San, Miss Xiao Congrong, Emperor Wu was also lenient and not only sent people to search for her whereabouts everywhere but also returned the Xiao Mansion to Xiao Congrong with a stroke of his pen.

  As for the Xiang family's assets being confiscated and left empty, there was no mention of returning them. Instead, a sentence was added to the imperial edict, stating that if Xiao Zongrong were to return alive, he would be allowed to enjoy the stipend of the old marquis in his lifetime, which would be paid out monthly until his death... This should be considered a 'blessing' given her disability!

  The officials all agreed with this and also praised Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou for his kindness and sympathy towards the loyal and good. The spirit of Xiao, the old marquis, in heaven should be able to rest in peace seeing that the descendants of the Xiao family have no worries about food and clothing...

  The dust has settled, the unjust case has been redressed, rewards have been given and punishments have been meted out, all's well that ends well.

  Emperor Wu II ordered the third crown prince to choose a good day, personally went to the Temple of Heaven to see off the deceased wronged souls, made sacrifices and invited Master Fa Zheng from the Great Buddha Temple to help the dead souls attain liberation.

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  Wu Mingyuan had people set up an altar for the sacrificial ritual and make arrangements, while intensifying the search for Xiao Congrong. The imperial edicts that were put up one after another were increasingly urgent and sincere, all of which exhorted her to attend the ritual if she was in the capital, as it would be a mistake to miss this opportunity to pay respects to the Xiao family.

  These imperial edicts are no longer personally delivered by Chu Qing, but are frequently sent by Hua Junzi and Mo Yu as if they were watching a show. At first, Xiao Congrong didn't think much of it, and when he returned, he didn't know what kind of trick Wu Mingyuan was going to play again.

  But after watching for a while, and having a cold war with Chu Qing, her heart slowly came back to life.

  Xiao family members were buried when she fainted, and did not send them off. Although Chu Qingcang took her to pay respects afterwards, the mood at that time cannot be compared to now!

  She wants to see Wu Er Di, she wants to see Wu Ming Yuan, what face will the group of officials use to give to the Xiao family, and sacrifice the loyal and good people who have died!

  This idea grew stronger with each passing day, and as the day of the sacrifice approached, she finally couldn't help but bring it up to Chu Qing.

  Chu Qingkong immediately opposed: "No way, you can't go!"

  Xiao Congrong coldly retorted, "Why not?! In front of so many people, do you think Wu Mingyuan would want my life? He's still busy buying people's hearts and doesn't have time to do something stupid like that!"

  "Of course not during the ceremony," Chu Qing shouted, "but what about afterwards? Can you guarantee he won't detain you?"

  Xiao Zongrong smiled faintly: "Is it that you don't have confidence in me or you don't have confidence in yourself? If he can detain me, can't you bring me out again?"

  One sentence was said with a light and crazy tone, but the other half of the sky was anxious and defeated, shouting: "I can't take you on an adventure, last time I almost lost you... I couldn't imagine losing you again, I would rather storm into the imperial palace and kill everyone!"

  Xiao Congrong was shocked and suddenly thought of the last time he was hugged back, at that time there was a feeling, later heard Hua Junzi mention that Chu Qingcang cut off Wu Mingyuan's fingers in a fit of rage, had some understanding of his shocking anger, deeply knowing that his words were not empty!

  Chu Qing's crazy, indeed cares about her! Thinking of this, the hardened heart of these few days softened a bit, and he said in a gentle voice: "I must go! I have sufficient reason, you listen first and then object, if you can say out reasons to object me, I will listen to yours, otherwise you just listen to mine!"