Chapter 62: Tianguang Ruins Fifteen
The man's words were exchanged for a moment of expressionless silence.
I thought he was reluctant to answer this question, but he suddenly took two steps forward slowly, stared at the face of the young man in silence, and said word by word: "Can you really remove all the anger for her and return to me?"
"That's right. β
"Why lie. β
"Why does the prince think I'm lying? β
"Look at her body, every bit of it is made up of that anger, once you eliminate the anger from her body, it is not equivalent to erasing her from this world. even used this to exchange for the burial goods in my tomb, and the son really had a good plan. β
"Yes. The man's words made the young man smile slightly: "Since the prince said so, then you might as well ask the prince another question, I don't know if the prince still remembers the two lines of words written in cinnabar on the prince's coffin." β
Hearing this, the man frowned: "The tomb will be reopened, and there will be no less face." β
The prince knows what these two sentences mean. β
This means that no matter how long the tomb is sealed, it will eventually be reopened, and once a person grows old, he will not be able to return to his original appearance. β
The first sentence is correct, but in the latter sentence, the prince is afraid that he has misunderstood. β
"Then what does it mean? β
"No matter how long the tomb is sealed, there will come a time when it will be reopened, and once a person dies, he will never be able to return to the way he was when he was alive. β
"The so-called death of a man is like a lamp going out. β
"That's right. β
"How does that explain you and my present situation. β
"Now?huh...... I have lost time to take away from me, but what has the prince retained from the past?"
"I ......" The man's lips trembled, but he was speechless for a long time.
"It seems that the prince really can't remember who inlaid the jade jue attached to the soul of the mother on the coffin of the prince, and who personally sealed the tomb of the two of you in the big mountain. β
"It's ...... you"
"The prince finally remembered, didn't he? β
"So you deliberately brought me here just so that I could see you destroy her?"
"I'm just sighing that after so many years, the prince's anger has not been eliminated because of the sacrifice of his mother's companionship. β
"How much has the boy himself forgotten the past. β
As soon as the words fell, I saw a faint light flashing in the originally calm pupils of the young man: "Me?" Then he laughed, and the hand that had imprisoned Princess Shu rose up, and threw the gold chain in his hand towards the man's chest: "I am indeed not much better than you." β
A thousand years ago, Li Yi, the king of Shu, was summoned to Chang'an by an edict from Emperor Xianzong, who had just ascended the throne, and soon the news of his death was reported.
He was only forty-two years old when he died, and about his death, the history books only summarize it in one sentence: October Wuxu in the first year of Yongzhen.
No one knows why he died, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that I met Lao Chen with the young man this time, I wouldn't have known that there was a prince named Li Yi in the Tang Dynasty, let alone the various ups and downs that accompanied this person's short life, life and death.
Look, time is such a powerful and ruthless thing, even those big people in history who originally had heads and faces and prominent identities can't escape the fate of annihilation after glory, not to mention these little people who are unknown and live at the bottom of the class. Even if you think that no matter how many ups and downs you have experienced in this life, no matter how many rights and wrongs, no matter how unforgettable, after all, it is just a fleeting bacterium in the palm of time, so small that it is not even dust, let alone leaving a trace in the vast history.
However, if you happen to encounter a small desertion of fate, there may be some subtle changes in this life.
For example, several people whose time trajectories were originally completely different suddenly come together, and as a result, many intricate associations arise.
It's like my encounter with the Underworld, and Li Yi, the king of Shu.
Li Yi is different from Princess Shu, he is not a ghost, but a living corpse.
At that time, Ah Hong's act of prying Phoenix Jue off his coffin not only awakened Princess Shu's soul, but also made his corpse, which had been lying in the coffin for thousands of years, wake up. But for some reason, he was also dead and buried for so long, and when the Immortal Master came back to life, there was only one skeleton left, and Li Yi's appearance looked no different from a living person.
It reminds me of certain stories about vampires, who rejuvenate their bodies by sucking human blood, so they can't tell the difference between them and living people. When I said this, although I didn't say anything explicitly, the smile on the corner of my mouth that barely showed any traces made me feel a little naΓ―ve.
Later, he said that Li Yi, the king of Shu, was really a stranger.
The so-called alien is a person who is proficient in numerology and hexagrams, and can also apply them in life.
Therefore, when Luo Lingze's plot to abolish Xianzong failed and he was escorted to Beijing, Li Yi had already predicted that this seemingly very abrupt and incredible rebellion incident would probably have something to do with him.
Sure enough, he was recalled to Chang'an by Emperor Xianzong soon after.
Before leaving, he gave the jade he was wearing to his wife, which meant that this farewell would be regarded as a permanent secret.
And the separation of that day did make the pair of mandarin ducks say goodbye to heaven and man forever.
Not long after Li Yi entered Beijing, he was convicted of capital punishment for the crime of "instructing Luo Lingze to abolish the edict". At that time, Luo Lingze had already been executed, so no matter how Li Yi argued, he couldn't argue. Emperor Xianzong recognized that sooner or later Li Yi would endanger his throne, so he took advantage of Luo Lingze's case to deduct him from the crime and remove the thorn in his eye.
Fearing that if he continued to defend himself, he was afraid that his family would be harmed, so Li Yi had to plead guilty, and a few days later, he was quietly executed in the deep palace. But before he died, Li Yi bit his finger and left a circle of blood around him, all of which were written in jade tendon seal.
After seeing the blood book, Emperor Xianzong was afraid that Li Yi used some kind of magic that would be unfavorable to him after death, so he specially ordered someone to go to Luoyang White Horse Temple to invite the abbot in charge, and did seven days of magic for seven days.
He ordered the coffin to be thrown into the river. But as soon as she got the news of Li Yi's confession, Princess Shu, who rushed to Chang'an, immediately threw out a lot of money, intercepted the coffin before it was transported away, and then transported it away overnight, and then buried his coffin in the iron coffin according to the feng shui land selected by Li Yi before his death.
But to think that this is the whole truth of the whole cause of the matter would be wrong. β
When these words came out of the mouth of the young man, I was immersed in the story he was telling and completely unrecoiled. It took a few seconds to react, and I couldn't help but be stunned: "Then what is the whole truth about the cause of the whole thing?"
"Do you know that Tang Xianzong Li Chun has never been established?"
β...... I don't know much about history, in fact, the Tang Dynasty is more familiar with Tang Taizong and Tang Xuanzong, as well as Wu Zetian. β
He couldn't help but smile: "Li Chun loves beauty, so he didn't have a queen in his life, and followed Qin Shi Huang's pursuit of immortality, so he was finally killed by the eunuch." Therefore, he is a greedy and superstitious man. β
"So?"
So before Princess Shu Liang Wanhua married King Shu, she was actually the favorite concubine of the then crown prince Li Chun. Liang Wanhua is extremely beautiful, you have seen her appearance, and you will not have any objections if you think about it. β
"Yes, she's beautiful. "Even when you're a ghost.
Li Chun knew her charm very well, so he reluctantly cut her love and married her to him as a pawn placed next to Li Yi, the king of Shu. And the reason why he wanted to arrange such a chess piece was because he had already heard of some numerology gossip techniques that Li Yi was good at, and he had heard that he had a treasure in his hand that could make people immortal and prolong their lives, so he hoped that he could find out the truth about that thing for him through Liang Wanhua. β
"So Li Yi and his wife's previous relationship turned out to be just a scam?" I couldn't help but be disappointed when I heard this, because it sounded like a court bloody drama that had been made bad by the film and television industry.
"Whether it was a scam or not, no one knows except the two of them, I only know that shortly after Li Yi's death, Princess Shu committed suicide, and it was only three days before Li Chun ordered her to be taken into the palace. β
"Yes......"
Before committing suicide, Liang Wanhua found a friend of King Shu and asked him to inlay the jade with her soul attached to King Shu's coffin after her death, so as to be buried with him. The friend knew the consequences of this trip, so he tried to stop her, but failed, and could only bury the two together according to Wanhua's last words in the end, and in order to hide from Emperor Xianzong's eyes, another tomb was erected for Wanhua. β
β...... That friend, is that you?" I couldn't help but ask when I thought of listening to the conversation between him and Li Yi before.
He smiled and didn't answer, but continued: "Wanhua originally thought that by doing that, she could keep herself and Li Yi's body and soul together forever, without having to suffer the injury of reincarnation and forgetting each other, and never be separated for thousands of years. But she didn't expect that after doing so, her own resentment due to the pain of suicide would gradually expand because of the piece of jade and the coffin that was originally used to suppress Li Yi's body. This resentment not only kept King Shu's body from decaying for many years, but also deepened his resentment that he had been unjustly killed, thus gradually blurring the memories and feelings that had been stored in his soul. In this way, time flies, and when the tomb was reopened by Lao Chen and Ah Hong thousands of years later, King Shu, who suddenly woke up with the shattered jade, was no longer the person who was willing to bow down and confess his sins in order to save his family's life. β
So what has become of him?
He became a living corpse consumed by layers of resentment.
It was something that you couldn't feel anything but hatred. Endless hatred enveloped him, devoured him, and made her burn in the fire of purgatory, and because of this intense pain, she searched everywhere for a way to vent it.
So the first thing he did after waking up was to kill Ah Hong, who had chiseled Jade Jue and woke him up from his slumber.
The killing speed was so fast that Ah Hong didn't even notice that he was dead, and it wasn't until he was injured by Lao Chen for the second time that his soul really went out of his body.
After that, he turned his attention to Lao Chen.
But to his surprise, the person who instructed others to rob his tomb was the reincarnation of Li Chun, the Xianzong Emperor who killed King Shu and his wife.
In his previous life, he was an emperor, and although he was born in the womb of ordinary people in this life, Lao Chen should still enjoy a windfall from heaven and a prosperous life. But God made the ghost worse, and he went to open the tomb of King Shu before the windfall came. A moment of greed caused the damage to the jade that originally sealed the coffin of King Shu, and instantly awakened the body of King Shu full of resentment, which led to bad luck, and thus caused the tragic death of the innocents around him.
This must be said that there is indeed a providence in the dark.
Back then, Li Chun killed Li Yi to pave the way for his throne, but after many years, he was killed by eunuchs...... Therefore, if it weren't for the appearance of the young man later, I think I am afraid that even if Lao Chen has nine lives, it will not be enough, because it is not Princess Shu who really tortures him to death, and it is not Princess Shu who wants to take his life, but King Shu himself, who was framed to death by him.
Because he was filled with resentment, Li Yi, who was bent on asking for Lao Chen's life, did not even intend to let go of his wife, Princess Shu.
Before he died, when he learned that Wanhua was a chess piece arranged by Xianzong's side, he decided that he would have such an ending in his life, mostly because this woman was by his side and cooperated with Xianzong. Therefore, he wrote a blood curse to lock his soul in his body, and did not enter reincarnation because of death, which is why he was able to come back from the dead in the future.
He had already arranged for himself the opportunity to be resurrected.
However, because his friends saw through this and were afraid that he would end up with a fateful fate after doing so, they locked his coffin with the help of Yujue, to which Princess Shu's soul depended, in order to make him sleep forever. Unexpectedly, no matter how carefully arranged, it still couldn't escape fate, and Li Yi, who had been sleeping for thousands of years, was finally awakened by Li Chun's reincarnation.
But after he woke up, he didn't take Lao Chen's life as lightly as killing Ah Hong, but deliberately waited for the most suitable time to sell the other half of the jade that was not taken away by Lao Chen to Lao Chen, so that Lao Chen, who was full of curiosity, repaired the jade jue, so as to evoke the soul of Princess Shu who was attached to the jade jue.
The soul was mutilated and chaotic due to the damage of the jade, and Li Yi took advantage of this to control her, using her to entangle Lao Chen Bubu and induce him to kill his wife with his own hands in the chaos.
It turns out that killing the enemy with your own hands does not relieve hatred, and the most relieving thing is how to watch your enemy being tortured little by little by the hands of others, and then being forced to die little by little. So later, Lao Chen's series of desperate encounters have become a kind of cat-and-mouse fun for Li Yi.
The only difference is that the tool used to β‘β‘ the rat is the woman he loves the most.
Therefore, when the young prince intervened in this matter and personally restrained the soul of Princess Shu, the only little emotion left in his body was suddenly awakened, so that he finally couldn't help but appear in front of the young prince, and did not hesitate to give up a qiΔ in exchange for the freedom of Liang Wanhua's soul.
About the young man had already expected such a result.
So it seemed like he wanted to penetrate Li Yi's body with the gold chain in his hand, but it was actually just a false move, and then Liang Wanhua's eyes opened and tried to get into the car again, and when Li Yi stepped forward to pull her despite the gold chain, he flicked the chain lightly and retracted it in his hand.
"Let's go back......" The moment his fingers touched Liang Wanhua's body, Li Yi was stunned, as if he was a little incredulous, but he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he looked at the young man, and with a wave of his hand, he threw something in his palm straight at him.
Then he lowered his head and pulled the female ghost who was blindly reaching into the car into his arms.
This move undoubtedly made Liang Wanhua even more angry,
Her soul had long been lost in the shattering of Yujue, and torturing and killing Lao Chen was her only purpose in walking in the world. So, when she couldn't do that, she screamed in great pain, said something that no one could hear, and stabbed her fingers into Li Yi's chest like a knife, trying to get out of his way again and again.
Until the last time, when she pulled out her fingers and was about to stab her chest again, she was suddenly stunned when her eyes were fixed on the bloodless wound on her chest.
Then, as if waking up from a big dream, he looked up at him in a daze.
I looked at it for a long time.
Then his body trembled, and tears rolled down like pearls with broken threads: "Lord Wang......."