"Hehe, Bluegrass said it was a twin." Ziyi gently touched his lower abdomen and said with a chuckle.

And in the blink of an eye, the time is another month, and Ziyi is indeed carrying twins.

To be exact, it is a dragon and phoenix fetus.

It wasn't very smooth when it was produced, and Ziyi was tortured by these two little guys for a day and a night. When he heard the loud cries of the two children, Ziyi fell asleep tiredly.

Both little ones are healthy and cute.

In just three or five days, the folds on the body disappeared, the jaundice also subsided, and the skin was delicate and white, looking more like a full moon child.

Ziyi had been worried that the two little ones would inherit her eyes.

These ghost eyes are too terrifying for a child. Ziyi really doesn't want her children to have the same experience as she did when she was a child.

Fortunately, the eyes of the two little ones are watery and dark, and they don't look unusual.

At the beginning of the year, Kaoru Duanmu finally returned.

Regardless of the dissuasion of everyone, Ziyi stood at the city gate with all the concubines in the cold wind. In the distance, I saw a mighty procession walking towards the palace gate.

Duanmu Kaoru was wearing a black power suit, wearing a white fox fur, riding on a horse, and he was heroic. Seeing that team getting closer and closer, there was a sense of uneasiness in Ziyi's heart that became stronger and stronger.

A gust of wind blew the fox fur in purple clothes. Cui'er on the side hurriedly and quietly stepped forward to tidy up the purple clothes. Ziyi has not yet come out of the confinement period, and now the cold wind is blowing here, which is simply doing evil!

Cui'er bit her lip, her little brow tightened.

In front of the palace gate, Duanmu Kaoru and a group of people got off the horse, and Xue Xue led everyone to greet him, his eyes constantly scanning behind Duanmu Xun.

At this time, what she had in her heart was not the husband in front of her, but Sisi who was taken away by Duanmu Kaoru.

just looked around for a long time, but he couldn't see Sisi's shadow at all, and Xue Xue's body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and her face turned pale.

"Welcome the emperor back to the palace."

In the sky, a light snow drifted down, and everyone knelt down mightily.

"Get up." Duanmu Xun personally stepped forward to help Xue Xue, and waved his hand at the people behind Xue Xue.

When Ziyi saw the man in front of him, his heart "chuckled", and his little face turned white in an instant.

This person is not Kaoru Duanmu!

Purple clothes can be sure-

She walked behind the emperor in a daze, her figure shaking.

Cui'er couldn't stand it, so she took Ziyi's hand and made Ziyi stop. Seeing everyone leave, Cui'er dragged the purple clothes back to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

Ziyi still looked like she was in a state of disappointment, and she didn't seem to notice that she had returned to the hall at this time, until Cui'er brought a bowl of ginger soup to her and beckoned in front of her eyes, and she relieved herself.

"Cui'er, where is the emperor?" Ziyi, who had come to her senses, looked around, took Cui'er's hand and asked.

"Niangniang, the emperor went to Fanghua Palace, and the queen prepared a reception banquet for the emperor there." Cui'er tilted her head, her brows furrowed slightly.

She has been with Duanmu Xun for a lot of years, so she almost recognized at a glance that the current emperor is Nie Yun, not Duanmu Xun.

It's just-why did Nie Yun come back instead of Duanmu Xun?

Isn't it rumored in Beijing that our dynasty has won a big battle?

"Kaoru-"

Ziyi whispered Duanmu Xun's name, and her heart was very confused.

For four months, Duanmu Kaoru never contacted her except for a letter when she first arrived in the desert - what happened?

As if thinking of something again, Ziyi raised her head again and looked at Cui'er, and said, "Cui'er, did you see Sisi just now?" ”

"Little princess? No, there is no carriage behind the emperor--Niangniang, when you say this, the slave and maid also remember, the little princess really doesn't seem to have returned, is it-" A flash of surprise flashed in Cui'er's eyes.

"Qi-Qi! Cui'er, you go to Fanghua Hall and find a way to invite Prince Qi here. Ziyi took a few deep breaths hard, trying to calm his mind, there must be something hidden in this, and the only people who could know the truth were Nie Yun who pretended to be Duanmu Xun and Duanmu Qi, the prince of Qi.

Ziyi's anxious mood couldn't wait any longer, and when she couldn't see Duanmu Xun, she felt that she was going crazy.

Cui'er answered, hurriedly went out, and before going out, she specially instructed the palace people to burn the charcoal fire in this house more vigorously, and instructed Ziyi to drink the bowl of ginger soup quickly.

After Cui'er left, Ziyi summoned Silver Pupil and Night Fire for the first time since Duanmu Kaoru left.

Now, Silver Pupil and Night Fire no longer live in the palace, but live in the mansion of the "Charm and Spirit" outside the Purple Palace.

When the two of them were fine, they took on some simple work, and their lives were good.

Hearing that Duanmu Kaoru was back, the two mixed in with the onlookers, and when they saw the person on the horse, they glanced at each other.

They also saw that the person on the horse was not Duanmu Kaoru. Confused, the two followed the procession to the gates of the palace.

Therefore, Ziyi had just sent someone to summon these two people, and these two people entered the palace in a hurry.

"Ziyi, what's going on? Why not Kaoru? As soon as he entered the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace, the silver pupil rushed to the front of the purple cloth with great strides.

"I don't know, I'm waiting for Qi to come over." Ziyi's face had an expression of wanting to cry, and his voice was trembling.

Although she tried her best to tell herself that she should be shocked and not to panic, that heart could not calm down no matter what.

All sorts of horrible thoughts kept flashing through my mind.

Is he in danger?

Or was it delayed by something?

Something happened to Sisi......

Or did something happen to Kaoru Duanmu......

Ziyi shook his head vigorously, but these thoughts couldn't be thrown out of his mind.

Every minute and every second of the waiting time was an ordeal for the three people in the room.

Until the door of the Heart Cultivation Hall was pushed open again, Duanmu Qi and Mu Beichen walked into the main hall.

At that moment, Ziyi suddenly felt a touch of despair in her heart.

This sense of despair came so suddenly, as if the two people outside the hall had brought in the cold wind in the cold winter outside, which made people shiver all over the body.

"Purple." Duanmu Qi frowned, looked at Ziyi, and pulled the corners of his mouth far-fetchedly, but the expression he showed was even more ugly than crying: "Ziyi, where is the child?" I heard that it is a dragon and phoenix baby. ”

"Where's Kaoru?" Ziyi is not in the mood to talk about children here with Duanmu Qi at all!

She's not that strong yet.

"Kaoru - Ziyi, don't worry." Duanmuqi hesitated, not knowing how to speak.

Although he had long known that if he decided to come back, he was destined to face Ziyi's doubts, but they had no reason to delay in the desert any longer, and the Muluo Dynasty could not be without a king for a day.

And the news of Duanmu Xun's disappearance can't walk for half a sentence.

"How can I not be in a hurry!" Ziyi's love was a little out of control, and his tone was raised in vain, so frightened that Duanmu Qi hurriedly stepped forward and made a gesture to silence.

"Ziyi, don't worry, listen to me slowly, this matter must not reach the ears of outsiders-" Duanmu Qi turned around and looked at Mu Beichen.

For nearly five months, both of them were visibly thin and emaciated.

"Purple Cloth, Kaoru is missing." Mu Beichen couldn't stand Duanmu Qi's hesitation, so he simply gritted his teeth, looked at Ziyi and said.

"Missing—" The purple-clothed figure flickered.

She felt that her eyes were blackening and the buzzing in her ears was getting louder and louder, so that she couldn't hear the voices of other people around her. She just watched Mu Beichen's lips close one by one, and then his worried face got closer and closer.

For a while, the world was spinning.

After all, it was dark in front of him, and the purple clothes fainted.

When I woke up again, it was already completely dark outside, and Lancao sat on the edge of the bed and told the maid to decoct the medicine.

Ziyi sat up from the bed [Harmony], and for a moment her mind went blank, and she tried hard to think about what had happened, but the harder she tried, the more she couldn't remember.

"Ziyi, are you awake?" Lan Cao instructed the palace maid, turned around, looked at herself, and had worry in her eyes: "Your body has not fully recovered, you must lie on the bed [harmony] to recuperate, otherwise if your body is broken, what should the little princess and the little prince do?" ”

"What's wrong with me?" Ziyi covered his head with his hands tiredly, and inserted ten fingers into his hair: "Kaoru-Kaoru-"

The scenes of the afternoon finally poured into my mind little by little, and huge tears were squeezed out of my eyes as memories poured in.

Seeing Ziyi wake up, Mu Beichen and Duanmuqi, who had been staying in the outer hall, walked in.

"Ziyi, don't worry too much, Kaoru is just missing for the time being, I'm sure he'll be fine." Duanmu Qi looked at Ziyi, and didn't know how to comfort him for a while.

In fact, the battle against the barbarians was fought early.

In other words, on the second day of Duanmu Kaoru's disappearance, they took down the barbarians in one fell swoop. Raze the whole barbarian to the ground.

Since the day of Duanmu Xun's disappearance, Nie Yun has been staying in the barracks as Duanmu Xun. Under the pretext of looking for the barbarians who fled, for two months, Duanmu Qi and Mu Beichen, as well as the entire Wuhua Palace, were looking for Duanmu Xun's whereabouts.

However, they almost turned the entire area on the edge of the desert upside down, but there was still no clue at all.

In desperation, everyone had to return to the dynasty first, after all, they really had no excuse to continue to stay there, and the secret guards of Wuhua Palace still stayed in the desert, looking for Duanmu Xun's whereabouts.

No one knows what happened on the night of Kaoru Duanmu's disappearance.

And the one who disappeared with Duanmu Kaoru was Sisi.

"Temporarily missing?" Ziyi frowned slightly, and his chest rose and fell violently. "You sue me, how long has he been missing, and when did he disappear?!" ”

"About five days after arriving in the desert."

Duanmu Qi didn't speak, but Mu Beichen continued: "At that time, Xun told us that there was a strange woman among the barbarians, this woman was knowledgeable in astronomy and geography, and she was even better at healing poison, and had a power different from that of mortals. ”

Mu Beichen said, looked up at Ziyi, and saw that Ziyi's love was quite calm, and continued: "To attack the barbarians, the most important thing is to find a way to subdue this woman. However, the spies sent to the barbarians reported that no one among the barbarians had ever seen such a woman. ”

"Where did Kaoru know that?" Ziyi's voice didn't sound as excited as it had just now, and now, she needed to understand the whole process of the incident, and try her best to find out the flaws in it, and know where Duanmu Kaoru was.

"Ziyi, do you know Qingming?" Mu Beichen looked at Ziyi.

"Hmm." Ziyi nodded slightly.

If it weren't for Mu Beichen mentioning it at this time, she would have almost forgotten about this person.

"He is an admirer of the barbarian princess Nazha, and he has done a lot of crazy things for Nazha's woman." Ziyi replied softly.

"Yes, Kaoru just knew about it from that man's mouth. It's just that when Kaoru disappeared, news also came from Wuhua Palace that the man died. Suicide. Mu Beichen continued: "Moreover, the corpse turned into a pool of black water on the second day. ”

"Where's Sisi?" Ziyi furrowed her brows, trying to calm herself.

Even if Kaoru encounters any danger, as long as Sisi is by his side, he will definitely be fine! Sisi is not an ordinary child, it is impossible to encounter accidents so easily-

If Kaoru and Sisi are not in danger of their lives, then there has been no news for so long, which can only mean that the two of them are trapped somewhere! Ziyi believes that with Duanmu Kaoru's wisdom, even if he is trapped, he will definitely try his best to leave some clues!

It's just that now Duanmu Kaoru has been missing for nearly three months-

I don't know if those clues can survive in a place as varied as the desert.

"Sisi disappeared with Kaoru."

"Then you have ever seen that woman?"

Ziyi asked again.

Now, the only clue is the woman Kaoru once mentioned.

"No, not the slightest clue." Mu Beichen shook his head gently. They had thought at first that perhaps the woman was doing something wrong, but when they had pacified the barbarians, the captives, whether civilians or soldiers, or even more royalty, knew of such a woman!

And when Duanmu Kaoru ordered people to poison the water in that oasis in the desert, when they asked the people who detoxified them, the answers of those people were even stranger. There are all kinds of things, and some people even say that it was the gods from the sky who saved them.

It doesn't look like those people are lying.

Then there are only two possibilities.

Either the woman is not the real one, and Duanmu Kaoru was deceived by the man named Qingming.

Either that or the woman did everything she could to erase everyone's memories of her.

Mu Beichen and Duanmuqi are more inclined to the latter point.

Ziyi also felt that the second point seemed more appropriate.

Ziyi regretted a little, he should have let Yintong and Nightfire go to the desert with Duanmu Kaoru in the first place.