She touched her sister's hair as if she were a child.

"You are going to be the empress of the rosefinch. You can't cry like this in the future."

"Don't say that, you'll be better soon," he said. I don't want to be a queen, and I don't love to be a queen. I don't think so... "

"Lanting." A Zhao interrupts her gently.

"You can do it."

Bi Lanting sobs and looks at a Zhao.

"You have to think about the rosefinch, think about the court, think about the people." Zhao looked at her gently, "you have to hold up a day for them."

"Sister..."

Ah Zhao closed his eyes wearily: "I'm a little tired."

Bilanting closed his mouth, helped her lie down and covered her quilt.

After that, he covered his face and walked out of the inner hall and burst into tears.

……

A few days later, this morning.

It's very cold.

Ah Zhao has a good spirit.

"Help me out." She said to the people around her.

In the past few days, Bi Lanting, who had been with her, realized something, and her eyes were red.

But she didn't say anything. She put on her cloak, put on her hood and helped her go out.

While walking, she also said with a smile: "the wind outside today is a little bit strong, it is said that the plum trees in the plum garden have shown their flower buds."

Ah Zhao said with a smile, "really? Let's go and have a look

The party walked slowly to the plum garden.

The plum garden is clean and quiet.

Whistling in the north wind, but also can smell a bit of cold fragrance.

A Zhao took a breath of cold wind, coughed twice, then said with a smile: "it's a pity that there is no snow."

She looked at the plum trees and did not know what she thought of. After a long time, she whispered, "it's snowing. It's beautiful."

After watching Mei, a Zhao is a little tired.

Biting back tears, he said, "let's go back.".

A Zhao nods.

Bi Lanting asked people to break a few plum branches and said that they were planted in the rosefinch palace.

When I went back, I passed Jianjia palace.

A Zhao's eyes went there and sighed: "it's a pity that there is no snow."

When it snows, you can see the ice crystal trees.

"There will be. I'll see. Maybe it will snow this night," said bilanting in a hoarse voice

A Zhao closed her eyes gently and answered in a low voice.

"Well."

A Zhao fell down as soon as he returned to Zhuque palace.

The great doctor has been guarding, so he came to check the pulse.

Lying on the bed, the empress closed her eyes and did not respond to the call from her side.

At night.

It's snowing.

Flakes of snow fell from the sky.

Bi Lanting called out to a Zhao in her ear: "sister, it's snowing. The palace people say that the ice crystal flower trees are going to blossom. Get up and have a look. "

No one answered her.

The breath of the people on the bed gradually faded.

-

"Dong --"

the long and heavy chime of the bell resounded in the sky over the whole Suzaku king.

Hua Yong, who had just arrived at the gate of the city, was so flustered that he rolled down from his horse.

"Your majesty!"

"Your majesty!"

The Knights behind him dismounted one after another and helped him up.

Hua Yong's bun is disordered, and the back of his hand is also scratched, which is burning and painful.

But now he felt nothing.

He seized the hand of his guard and asked, "just now, just now, did you hear anything?"

The guard bowed his head: "Your Majesty, it's the death knell."

Dong -

the second sound followed.

Hua Yong's face was pale.

-- when the emperor dies, the bell tolls.