Chapter 13: The Icy Threat
The New Year is fast approaching, and the heavy snow has not affected the people from celebrating the holiday. Chang'an Avenue is full of lights, and the laughter of children gives this ancient city the illusion of rejuvenation. However, the corpses that froze to death on the side of the street were also wiped out by the snow, and the following year they turned into dry bones and merged with the earth.
During the night, the wind and snow tightened a bit. After the New Year's feast, Li Xian refused the emperor's invitation to stay in the palace for the night, and rode out of the palace gate on a high-headed horse with a full body of wine.
In addition to the fact that there was a young man waiting for him to party outside, he didn't want to see Ming Chongyan's nasty face again.
Originally, he listened to Tang Ying's advice and was going to keep a low profile for a while, but at this time, he suddenly heard a rumor. It is said that the righteous doctor Ming Chongyan was invited by the queen at a dinner party to divinate the faces of a noble, and the accuracy of his prediction was convinced by all the people who saw it, and some people even called him the first minister in the world after Yuan Tiangang.
Empress Wu was very happy and asked him to judge several of his princes. Originally, as a mother, it was quite inappropriate to ask this, and Ming Chongyan's answer made him hate it even more.
It is said that he has the highest opinion of the crown prince, saying that he has both ability and political integrity, followed by the two younger brothers of Xian and Dan, both of whom are noble and worldly. Only when it came to Li Xian, he was embarrassed and couldn't wait to say that this son was not virtuous enough and it was difficult to achieve a great cause.
Li Xian's teeth rattled when he thought of this, and he wanted to immediately break Ming Chongyan's body into pieces. As everyone knows, he was rumored to be not the child of the Empress Wu since he was a child, although Wu Mei knew that the Tao was nonsense, but he always had a pimple in his heart, and felt that his mother did not love him because of this. Now what he feared most had happened again.
Originally, listening to Tang Ying's words, the plan to no longer fight against Ming Chongyan was overturned. He hurriedly summoned his subordinates, a group of young men who didn't know the height of the sky, to discuss the way to get rid of Ming Chongyan.
When Lee Hyun was looking for a partner. Ming Chongyan was following her unhurriedly on the grounds that the queen was sending Tang Ying back to Penglai Island. Tang Ying was used to treating him as air, and he untied the ship's cable alone, wanting to row across the Taiye Pool alone.
Ming Chongyan didn't care about her attitude at all, and went straight to the boat and operated the oars. Tang Ying saw that he had to follow, so he threw away the other oar angrily.
He was not in a hurry or annoyed, admiring her helpless appearance, he was in a good mood. Paddled to the center of the Taiye Pool, he stopped his oars and said to Tang Ying, "The night is so beautiful tonight." Tang Ying habitually ignored his words, and his eyes didn't roll.
He stretched out an oar and plunged into the water, and the dead air spread down the oar to the surface of the river, freezing from the point of contact. At the same time, the snowflakes falling from the sky fell on them and turned black, like burning ashes, which really did not look like the scenery that should be on earth.
Tang Ying sensed the ominous coolness, and couldn't help but open his eyes, startled by the scene in front of him. The boat they were in froze on the surface of the water in the pool, and the sharp ice picks outside the boat were slowly rising.
Ming Chongyan's hair didn't know when it spread out, and it flew in the air, just like when the black-robed man appeared before. Tang Ying secretly used white fire to resist, but he knew very well that his little white fire could not shake the enemy at all.
At this time, Ming Chongyan said in a non-wavering voice: "Whenever it snows heavily, there are always many displaced people who freeze to death on the streets. The dead qi continued to gather towards me, becoming my strength. Suffering while alive, reincarnation when you die, and reincarnation as a human being suffers the same, what a suffering. It is better to enter the kingdom of eternal life with me, fearless and painless. There was no remorse in his tone, but instead he described himself as a savior, which made Tang Ying shudder.
"Ah Ying." He said slowly: "Do you still want to see Li Chunfeng?" ”
Tang Ying was stunned, didn't answer, and didn't know what to say. He played with black snowflakes as if he were talking to himself, "If you can summon his soul, how about I make him a perfect puppet body?" Or find a body similar to him and reunite you. ”
When she heard this, she thought of Li Shimin's demonized resurrection and felt furious in her heart, and couldn't help but shout: "What the hell are you playing again?" How could you be so kind to let him join me? ”
"Of course, it's not without conditions." He looked at her with the look of 'you should understand,' "I want to know the whereabouts of Bai Zetu." At present, Li Chunfeng's body cannot be found, nor can his soul be found. This makes me mind. ”
Tang Ying's eyes were full of tears, "He's dead, do you still want to disturb his peace?" ”
"Oh?" Ming Chongyan leaned back slightly, his hands slowly raised to the slur, and something like white mist gradually swam in the huge ice picks in the dark night. His voice was unreal and crisp again, "Is he really dead?" Then you'd better hope that his soul will come to you first, rather than be found by them. ”
Tang Ying swallowed nervously, trying to see the strange things called "these". They gradually turned into clear shadows in the ice, each fierce and fierce, and the empty eye sockets of the skulls glowed red.
These are things called evil spirits. No, it's not appropriate enough to say that evil spirits are evil, and judging from the breath of death they bring, it's not an exaggeration to say that they are evil gods! What made Tang Ying even more frightened was that they actually obeyed Ming Chongyan! God, how much strength does this dangerous man have?
Ming Chongyan enjoyed admiring her fearful expression, and regarded this as another kind of worship, he said: "In the era of the guardians of Chang'an, these evil gods were forced to enter the ghost gate every Midyear Festival, thus losing the only opportunity to absorb the power of the year every year. They are getting weaker and weaker, withering away from each other's predators. All of this is due to your Li Chunfeng, so they are all more eager than me to torture Li Chunfeng's soul. ”
As he spoke, the evil gods in the ice picks were cruising with their teeth and claws, as if they were going to come out and eat Tang Ying. Ming Chongyan raised his hand to signal them to be quiet, they obediently calmed down, and they didn't know what magic weapon he had, which could easily suppress the evil god.
He waved his hands, and the evil gods turned into white mist and disappeared into the ice crystals again. I don't know if it will disperse into the night sky of Chang'an, or return to his black qi and merge with him.
He took a deep breath and slowly withdrew his dead air. As the lake thaws, the ice crystals sink and the snowflakes turn white again.
Tang Ying stared at him with wide eyes in shock. He smiled coldly, "You must be thinking, why I'm not as polite to you as I used to be." ”
Seeing that she was even more hostile, he said proudly, "I just want you to understand." There is only one person in the world who treats you well and has nothing to ask for, Li Chunfeng. Moreover, he died. I want to be polite to you, but you have trampled on my kindness with Li Xian's kid, it's time to give you some color. ”
Tang Ying trembled with anger, but Ming Chongyan's powerful aura shocked her so much that she didn't dare to move. At this time, the moonlight, which was already cloudy, was obscured by a dark cloud. It wasn't until an ugly cry sounded that she realized that it was the crows again.
A flock of crows swept over their heads, and a rain of black "feathers" fell in the air, mixed with a few black and white feathers. Tang Ying suddenly felt that this situation was very similar to when they were intercepted by crows on the way to Qianling, so he reached out and grabbed a few feathers in his hand.
I saw that the black and white feathers still had fresh blood stains at the root, as if they had been plucked off not long ago. She is very familiar with this pattern, it is the owl's!
"You killed Xiao'er and Xiaomeng!" Tang Ying clenched his blood-stained feathers and threw his fist at him, but he was easily pinched and pushed to the side.
"It's funny, you're so excited just to see the carcass of a bird. If you see Lee Hyun's body...... What will it look like? ”