Chapter 38: The Phoenix and the Fire

On the way back, Jun Wu and Wang Xie clasped their fingers, but they didn't dare to look at each other and looked straight ahead, and there were still some deer in their hearts, and they were suffocated.

After walking for about half an hour, the two people who had not yet walked out of the door paused in a tacit understanding.

Wang Xie: "Ah Wu...... Have we just walked through here? ”

Jun Wu looked around, showing a quiet vigilance: "Yes." ”

Sunset, cool night. The mist gently dispersed and blew among the flowers and trees.

As he breathed, Wang Xie smelled a strange fragrance. He frowned and hurriedly covered Jun Wu's mouth and nose.

Jun Wu was surprised for a while and raised his eyes to look at him.

"Don't smell ......," he said, breaking off.

The black shadow fell, Jun Wu was shocked, and regardless of what he had just said, he stepped forward to arrest him. also suddenly smelled the strange fragrance, dizzy, fell forward and fell to the ground on Wang Xie's body.

The two of them fell back and forth, and a pair of magpie-patterned boots stepped on the wet green mud, and walked in front of the two of them and paused.

The young man's eyes were fixed on them, it was Luo Chengcheng. But the countenance ...... It is not as delicate and delicate as the day, from the neck to the root of the ears, there are black interlaced branches like old trees and black vines, making his whole person look very ghostly.

Fengqi Pavilion.

Ji Liangli took Wang's door up, turned around and saw Ming Ji sitting in the corner, taking a bamboo ear and sticking it to the door. muttered: "Why does it seem to be a door?" ”

Ji Liangli replied: "You might as well look up at the door." ”

"Hmmm! Reasonable! ”

Ming Ji raised her head, wiped her sweat with a hand towel: "Old, boss......" hurriedly got up, turned sideways and pretended to admire the moon in three hundred taels of silver: "Ha, haha...... The moon is full tonight. ”

Ji Liangli glanced behind him, "Come with me." ”

Mingji's scalp is numb, I don't know if the interest will rise again! Following him to his study, Mingji's eyes lit up.

The study is a two-story building, don't look at it small, every book hidden in it is a treasure and a unique piece that the black-hearted boss has changed his way to get, although he rarely reads, but he can't stop his eyes from spending a lot of money to move these can't eat or drink these papers.

On weekdays, this building is locked, but when she comes in this day, Ming Ji thinks that when she goes out, she will get some pocket money from the pawnshop for a valuable price.

habitually lit the lamp for the black-hearted boss who killed a thousand knives, and when he saw him sitting there, he began to torture.

"What did you hear?"

Ming Ji sat opposite him and pestled his face: "What do you care so much about what Junwu and his father do?" ”

Ji Liangli looked at her lightly: "You care so much about what I do." ”

"You are so good-looking, I like you, I care about you, everything is right."

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Ming Ji grabbed his arm and said curiously: "Oh, you just tell the sΓΉ family, the gods mysteriously made me fall asleep at night, and my mind was itching to turn over and over again with your figure, which eliminated the soul~"

"......" twitched his eyes, and he couldn't stop thinking about that picture.

Ji Liang couldn't hide it from her, and he didn't want her to leak the bottom recklessly, so he pulled her hand away. He leaned back in his chair, his eyes glancing at the ceiling, his hands crossed twice in front of his abdomen.

Mingji's eyes were full of excitement, so she almost hugged a melon seed plate and listened to his storytelling.

Jumping the lights, Ji Liangli's voice faintly seemed to float from a long time.

"I'll tell you a bedtime story, and don't use your dirty head at night, Xiao misses me."

Mingji nodded vigorously. "Anthracene!"

He exhaled a long time: "Once upon a time, there was a rich country, and the king who lost his life depended on his only daughter. The princess was born with thousands of favors, and she was very noble. He was born with a beautiful appearance, amazing talent, and extraordinary martial arts. Later, when the country fell into the crisis of war, she disguised herself as a man and took her retainers to fight to save the country that had a history of hundreds of years but its internal politics were deeply rotten. On the day when the princess won and returned to the court, the people of the capital came to admire her demeanor of not letting her shave her eyebrows, the king held a feast for her, and the ministers stood at the gate of the palace to welcome her and chant the words, singing and dancing, drumming, petals, flutes spread all over the city, and there were hundreds of birds and magpies around her triumphant division. And this qiΔ“ grand scene is no match for her who sits on a horse and is not shocked. Ji Liangli paused, his eyes drifting a little away, as if immersed in some kind of memory...... In that indifferent eyes, there was a slight tremor of rare alarm.

Mingji shook him: "Don't stop, don't stop." ”

Ji Liang pulled back his thoughts and continued: "The princess has been smiling, to the people, to the ministers, to everyone. But that smile is not up to the bottom of the eye, and there are still some people in the alienation who can't understand the loneliness, as if she won not a battle that shocked the Seven Kingdoms and even the Son of Heaven, but a ruined disaster. The nobles who didn't take into account the royal relatives praised her, and there were complicated eyes with other meanings. From the lively dinner party in the palace to her mansion, which was not low-key to see that it was a princess of a country, until she saw the door being guarded by the guards, a beautiful seven-year-old girl looking to greet her, and holding a three-year-old boy with delicate facial features who had just been able to speak, she let go of the smile that had been on the corner of her mouth, her eyes soaked in temperature, and walked towards them. ”

"Those two little babies are the princess's children?"

Ji Liangli nodded.

"What about the princess's husband?"

"The princess's husband was a general, and when the princess gave birth to her second child, she died on the battlefield, and the princess moved back to her princess's mansion because of her injuries, and she was accompanied by a group of generals' retainers. The victory of that battle that shocked the world was inseparable from the help of the group of cronies and conspirators left by the general."

"What a pity!" Mingji's eyes were full of regret, "And then?" ”

Ji Liangli continued: "The victory in this war completely changed the fate of the princess after that. Wang Renhou, childless, was very happy with the queen, and the harem was only symbolically decorated with a few ladies, and he only gave birth to such a daughter with the queen in this life. Originally, there were many internal problems in the country, but he was unable to govern them, and his brothers were not kings. The victory of this war made him think about it all the time in his heart, but he didn't want to, and he didn't dare to finally set his eyes on the princess who he had always thought was the best candidate, and only had a daughter. However, the king and a group of his staff spoke his thoughts, and the king's health at this time was also getting worse and worse, and the staff realized that the king's life was not long in coming, and he only had such an heir as the princess, and he could not pass on the throne to the princess's child who was bleeding unorthodox royal blood. They were all afraid that their own fate would not be guaranteed after the king left, and after weighing the pros and cons, they agreed with the king's idea very much, and also discussed the edict that would let the king prepare the throne of the princess on the same day. She was supposed to be the country's first queen in hundreds of years. Soon after, the king collapsed, and the king's six brothers brought their respective armies to attend the king's funeral overnight, and a bloody battle for the throne was set off. ”

"What about the princess?" Akihime was anxious and worried.

Ji Liangli was silent for a long time, as if he didn't want to talk about the princess anymore, so he only jumped the process and talked about the result: "She ......" His voice was astringent: "After being trapped in the palace where his father's coffin was placed, the fire was raging, burning so much that only she was left with a phoenix and a phoenix, leaving her a phoenix and jade phoenix." Her retainer Keqing was crying and vomiting blood at the temple gate, and one of them picked up her bones and disappeared into the desolation of the ruins of the palace in the early morning. Later, he set fire to the princess, the king's cruel fourth brother, killed the second and third brothers, and ascended the throne to become the next king. After ascending the throne, he also killed several of his other brothers, along with a group of disloyal or unclear ministers, and bloodied the entire royal family and court, beginning his belligerent and tyrannical rule. ”

"Damn it...... No matter how good people in this world don't end well. ”

Ji Liangli smiled: "Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy?" ”

Ming Ji was surprised: "Of course the princess is a good person!" Her fourth uncle is a badass! The princess picked up the sword and fought for the people of the country, but her cruel fourth uncle pointed the soldier at his blood relatives for his own selfish desires! It's bad! Ming Ji rolled her eyes, doubting Ji Liang's IQ and said, "Do you still think about this with your brain!?" ”

Ji Liangli nodded: "If you say so, it's true." ”

"It was meant to be!" Mingji asked curiously, "What about the princess's two children?" Doesn't the story end there? What about the staff? What about retainers? Who else took the princess's bones? And where is the princess buried? In fact, he knew that Ji Liangli was talking about the story of Princess Chuhua, and when she first came to Liang Kingdom, she had heard people talk about the fragments, and when she connected them, she knew it in her heart.

"The child heard that he was burned with the princess. It is also said that he is still alive and hidden by the princess's retainers. It is also said that their imperial uncle was ashamed and raised them in the palace with fine clothes and food. As for the other questions...... "Ji Liangli stood up and blew out the candle in front of the table, "It's late at night, so that's all for today." ”

"Huh?"

Seeing that he was really gone, Ming Ji still had a lot of questions, so she chased over and begged: "Boss, after you finish speaking, I will warm your bed tonight, no money!" ”

"No, I'm warm."

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Luo Shen Mansion, Jun Wu, who was stunned, opened his eyes again, and his back was cold as if lying on a smooth floor.

She made a sound that woke the boy from his sleep.

The boy wore a special silver mask at night to hide the ugly black vines that he thought grew from his neck to his jaw at night.

Looking at His Highness, his eyes moved.

Jun Wu sat up, covered her aching forehead, and felt a gaze looking at her, so she looked over.

When they looked at each other, their hearts trembled slightly.

Inexplicably, from the other party's eyes, there is a sense of dΓ©jΓ  vu.

"Who are you?" Jun Wu opened his mouth and asked the young man who was about thirteen or fourteen years old and had a noble posture.

The young man came back to his senses from the moment he looked at each other, and his natural dignity was natural, but his tone was cold and sarcastic: "Pay attention to your identity, slave. ”