Chapter Forty-Eight: The Tomb Gate Has Thorns
The moon hook moved west, and the night had passed, but the howling of the mountain wind was louder.
Su Huihui followed him step by step, resting several times in between, enduring the stiffness of his calves and carefully counting the steps. Halfway up the stairs were gone, full of gravel and mounds of dirt, and the jagged weeds wrapped around the corners of her skirt, and she had to pull them off one by one, until at last she fell far away panting.
Sheng Yunyi didn't wait for her, and in the end, she stepped on his footprints and reached the platform at the top of the mountain, and the sky was cloudy. After walking for a night, his legs couldn't stand it, Su Hui sat down with a big stone, took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and his throat and eyes were dry and on fire.
The small water bladder in her bag was useless, Sheng Yunyi threw her a big one, and her wrist was weak and almost fell to the ground.
He smiled and said, "I thought that if you were a doctor with more needles, your hands would be much more stable than ordinary people." ”
Su Huihui took a sip of water unceremoniously, broke the jar and broke it, "Your Majesty doesn't know if I can't do acupuncture?" The last time I treated the wound on my waist, I asked Lord Yu to administer an injection. ”
Sheng Yunyi stood under a boulder at the mouth of the cliff and asked her to come over, she was so tired that she was teased by him again, so she somehow replied without saying a word, leaving him there alone.
After the words came out, she realized that something was wrong, and the fatigue of the body was not easy to teach the brain, and she forgot that they were not here to climb the mountain, but to worship the ancestors - before Sheng Yunyi spoke, she dragged her absent lower limbs to the tombstone.
The tomb is apparently unkeened and the lower part is covered with pine needles, standing lonely in the shadow of the boulders. The faint light of the sky illuminated the faint handwriting in the middle, which was the resting place of Lu Ming, the general of Zhenguo, and his wife and son, although there might only be some clothing underneath in place of ashes.
Sheng Yunyi straightened his clothes and belts and made a barracks salute in front of the tomb. He was wearing a wide moon-white robe, but his leaning posture naturally brought out a solemnity and coldness, as if he was wearing armor and carrying a long sword, and he rode across the territory of thousands of miles in front of him.
"Isn't General Lu the grandfather of His Majesty?" Seeing that Sheng Yunyi didn't make any other moves, she asked curiously. Although he has been in the army, he doesn't have to worship in this capacity, he is above ten thousand people, and he can say it to a courtier even if he nods, if he is a grandson, he doesn't need to perform family salutes?
He threw a sentence lightly: "If General Lu is my grandfather, you can call your cousin to listen now." ”
Su Hui, who was drinking water, squirted out a mouthful of water.
Table...... Cousin? The general is his maternal grandfather, and the general's sister is her maternal grandmother...... So is the problem with the word "pro"?
Su Huihui didn't want to ask too much, just a shining cousin had already made her unable to resist, the palace secrets, it was not beneficial to listen to more, it was not beneficial.
A ray of light sprinkled on Sheng Yunyi's hand to place the fruit, and she suddenly had countless curiosity. In the Duanyang Marquis Mansion, she heard people talk about how she would rather endure it for ten years than rehabilitate her grandfather, which shows that her feelings for her mother's family are very deep, but who knows, he now actually says that it is not his blood relative! She felt that the ministers and people who praised the benevolence of the present had been deceived, and she was filled with emotion for a while.
So who is his real grandfather......
She helped burn the money, and said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty doesn't need to tell me about this kind of family matter......" As soon as the words came out, she couldn't wait to slap her mouth, didn't she ask first! Family affairs, she also has a part in this family.
Sheng Yunyi ignored it, stared at the tombstone for a long time and said, "General Lu has the grace of nurturing his mother and concubine, and he is also for me. ”
He turned his head to look at the light of the sky, the sky in the west was a dull blue and purple, the east was flushed with fish belly white, and a few miles away on the top of a mountain exuded a soft pale red like a spring, the sun was about to rise.
Su Huihui stood with him for a while, spread out the burden, wiped the stele carefully with the cloth he brought, and put a few white chrysanthemums picked along the road.
"What kind of person is General Lu? I just met my grandmother yesterday, does she look like my uncle? She covered her lips and smiled, "I don't even remember what my mother looks like, but if I do, I must not be like them." ”
Sheng Yunyi took the cloth in her hand, re-examined it critically, and said, "The princess and the general are naturally similar in nature. It has been ten years since General Lu's death, and what I remember too clearly at that time is only the description of him before his death, which was dry and haggard, and his heart was like ashes. ”
He looked at her calmly, "You're lucky, be content." ”
Su Huihui pestled beside him like a child who didn't know what to do, and apologies came to his heart in an instant. She felt that he must be uncomfortable now, and tried to comfort him, but found that she knew so little about what he was saying that she could not interject.
Sheng Yunyi said again: "The Lu Jiajun who I entered with Xuanze before the age of ten, the appearance of the general, at that time, was probably high-spirited in front of people, and ...... behind" He recalled the hard work when he was a child, "It should be about the same." Even Xuan Ze and I can teach him a ruthless lesson, and the first emperor gave him absolute power. ”
However, once the power is withdrawn, it falls from the clouds to hell.
The wind of dawn swept through his fluttering cuffs, his face turned against the light, he recited a few words in his heart, recited a verse sincerely, and finally left from the stele engraved with dignified script.
The top of the mountain is very flat, the grass is luxuriant, and the southern mountain is still alive even though it has entered the harshest season of the year. One of the cliffs on three sides is extremely steep and rocky, and you can walk from the weeds to the outermost rocks, with a wide view of the peaks.
He slowly lowered his head, his gaze piercing through the clouds beneath his feet.
Su Hui's soft voice came from behind: "How many times has Your Majesty been here?" I'm really familiar with the mountain roads. ”
Sheng Yunyi said with his hand: "The second time." ”
She exclaimed, "I can make out the shortest way to the top of the mountain that night, and I really remember it." Was the first time when the general had just died? ”
He stretched out half of his boot and compared it to the edge of the cliff, and gave a faint "um", the soles of which were slightly damp.
Su warmed his body and bowed, and when he saw him standing by the soft clouds, he didn't know how high it was below, and he couldn't help but palpitate, "Your Majesty, stand here." ”
He turned back and smiled at her, and suddenly thought of teasing, "Do you think people will die if they jump from here?" ”
Su Hui was speechless, "Why do you want to jump from here." ”
He replied cheerfully, "I am indeed here for the second time, but I have never been to the top of the mountain, and the tombstone has been erected." I only glanced at the map, and I don't remember how to go down the mountain, so I might as well jump directly from here. ”
Su Hui warmed the corners of his forehead, "Then your majesty will jump, Weichen won't send it." "Can he make a draft if he lies, and how to go down the mountain, do you still need to remember?
Sheng Yunyi said again: "You come here." ”
Su Huihui refused: "I'm afraid of heights." ”
He leaned sideways, his tall nose and slender eyelashes forming a clear silhouette in the steam, and then reached out to her, holding a small porcelain bottle of rose sauce in the palm of his hand.
Su Hui took a deep breath, "When did Your Majesty take it from me?" ”
"If you want me to help you wrestling, you always have to get some gifts in return."
She stepped forward to pick it up, but his fingers moved back under his sleeve, making her angry.
The clouds in the distance were brilliant and colored, as if stained with rouge, and the slanting branches of the pine trees blocked her vision, but a cluster of golden light loomed in the pine needles and clouds, and gradually became distinct. She looked at the mountain without blinking, and in the next moment a golden sun leaped out of the sea of clouds, and the scorching light shone directly into her eyes.
"Look."
She couldn't help but say, "It's really beautiful." ”
Sheng Yunyi's hand led her to look elsewhere, she immediately woke up, and in the blink of an eye, a solemn expression appeared on his face.
"It's out of the water!"
The sun lifted some of the fog, and I saw a few stars burning red in the center of the winding mountain road, and a few blue and black roofs peeping out of the thick smoke. The morning glow on the horizon echoes the Taoist temple on the mountainside, the upper half is a gorgeous and colorful sky, and the lower part is the same bright color, just a pleasing to the eye, and the other is a sickle that takes people's lives.
Su warmed up unconsciously grabbed his sleeve and shouted, "We have to go down to save people now!" The Taoist temple is surrounded by high ground, and the morning bell has not yet rang, so it is difficult for the people inside to run out! ”
He lowered his eyes to her face and said indifferently, "It's too late." ”
Su Huihui let go of the road rush when he came and went, and before he ran to the dirt pit under the pine, the strong wind hit her, and she was hit by something on her knee, and she immediately fell forward and dodged the blow.
Before she could see the object in front of her clearly, the bright knife light brushed against the side of her neck, and made a deep mark on the stone with a bang. She touched a hard thing in her hand, and when she glanced at it, it was her porcelain vase that Sheng Yunyi had just popped out, and it was not broken.
She quickly put it away, and found him at ease among the three people who began to fight, but somehow she was not nervous, and she was afraid that there would be assassins to chase and kill her, so she had to stay behind a boulder to cover most of her body, and three inches behind her feet was the abyss.
The two assassins were dressed in black and masked, they seemed to be a man and a woman, and with a "tearing" sound, Sheng Yunyi's hidden blade cut through the clothes of the two, revealing the white middle coat, his eyes flashed, and he said loudly to the back of the stone:
"Take off your coat!"
Su Huihui's brain didn't have time to react, her hand moved quickly, God knows why she obeyed him, as if whatever she did at a critical moment was to add chaos, and he carried her away, which was the best choice.
After she finished taking off her clothes, she saw that the moon-white robe outside Sheng Yunyi was shattered by the sword light, and when he threw it back, the fragments disappeared in the early morning wind. Su Huihui did the same, it was impossible to give him the clothes, and he threw his coat with the wind, and in his eyes instantly became a small dot and disappeared into the half-scattered mist.
She was so frozen that she shrunk her hands and feet against the cold rock, not caring that she would be exposed, and shouted:
"You beware!"
After shouting, I immediately regretted it.
A man in black suddenly crouched above the rock that sheltered the tombstone, his snake-like eyes staring coldly at her under the mask, the blade of the long knife in his hand no more than a few minutes away from her.
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The fire burned, forming a fire in the depression of the mountain forest, dry and little water in winter, there was only one well in Qingtaiguan, and the frightened cry of the female crown stopped abruptly in the crackling sound of wood.
There were only twenty women around the view, what could a few buckets of water do, the sleeping people were awakened by the thick smoke, and the awake people were blocked in the courtyard in front of the Lingguan Palace, watching the guards with knives appear out of thin air around them jumping up the wall and disappearing into the darkness.
The Jade Emperor Palace was in disrepair, the beams of the house fell, and the fire burned even more fiercely, but a short and thin man in black outside the hall seemed to be not burned enough, and kicked on the window, and the wall trembled, and countless wooden bars fell into the fire.
Beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on the foreheads of the subordinates who ran back, "Big brother, there is no one in the wing, but our people were found under the dry well." searched all over Daogu's residence, but did not find the Lu Talisman, the Lu Clan locked herself in the room, and when we broke the door in, she was already out of breath, so she did not ask about the whereabouts of the Troop Talisman. ”
He sneered and waved his subordinates to gather all the people.
"The leader is really wise, since the river drum guard is here but there is no leader, there is really no one in the room! As soon as Nei Ying died, their people who ate the emperor's grain surrounded the house like an iron bucket, and they really pretended to be enough. ”
More than a dozen people stood in the Taoist temple with a snap of their fingers, and one of them asked: "The other party has withdrawn, do you want to go up the mountain to search for people?" ”
The man in black immediately ordered them to split up to look for someone, and raised his hand to beckon one back, "Both Neiying are dead?" ”
"One of them went to the top of the mountain with the leader and the brothers."
The man in black immediately understood, "Idiot, don't say it sooner!" At the moment, his body was like electricity, and he was speeding towards the mountain road outside the view.
In the ashram locked from the outside to the west, the viewer is prostrate on the ground, white steam rising from his robe licked by tongues of fire. The smell of burnt hair and clothes was suffocating, and a young woman beside her stared at her in dazed and painful eyes, and her limbs collapsed by the door from pounding on the door and window, and she muttered to herself in a daze:
"I can't get out, I can't get out...... Isn't it enough that we've come to this point! Why don't you open your eyes...... Is it really damned! ”
Her tears of despair dripped onto the floor and evaporated in an instant. The viewer leaned on the hot couch and breathed dying, reciting the Jingjing Sutra in his mouth, and said weakly with his eyes closed:
"I should have expected that the man was not here for worship, and that this fire would be burning sooner or later...... I hope that the people in my view will leave the world and ascend to the Golden Gate as soon as possible, and will not be tormented by the world...... Emptiness is also emptiness, emptiness is nothing, emptiness is nothing, nothing is nothing......"
The violent coughing suddenly stopped, and the walls of the ashram were imprinted with the shadow of a man as tall as a flame, rolling like a wave.