[67] Malaria residue
"Yan Shangshu?" The county lord, who said that his mouth was dry, finally noticed the abnormality of the audience, and leaned his face closer to Hua Xiyan to ask.
Hua Xiyan's eyes blinked, yawned slightly, and looked a little sleepy, and said, "County Lord, where did you just go?" I was a little confused when I heard it. β
Li Jiyao blushed: "Look at me, just care about yourself and say, you haven't drunk any tea." With that, he hurriedly rolled up the picture scroll in the hands of the two of them, and asked Sanqi to come over and pour a hot cup of tea again.
Hua Xiyan watched her take the scroll back into the house, and the wind in her mind that accompanied Sanqi pushing the door in her mind suddenly became much clearer.
No one around her noticed that just now, in about a stick of incense, the seven souls and six spirits in her body had undergone a great shift. The memories that belong to the true owner of this body are coming back little by little. Incredibly, she had a sense of these memories, and it was better to say that she was wearing them back, or that she was the one who was slowly coming back.
A cup of hot tea was held in the palm of his hand, he blew the mouth of the cup, took a sip to moisten his throat, and said to the county lord: "County lord, I am afraid of rain tomorrow, if you want to go out, remember to bring an umbrella." β
Li Jiyao looked out the window, didn't notice anything abnormal, and asked, "How does Yan Shangshu know that there will be rain tomorrow?" β
Hua Xiyan smiled at the corner of her lips: "The minister just thinks so." β
Not hearing the change in her words, Li Jiyao scratched her forehead.
After waiting for a while, the palace didn't see the palace send a carriage to pick them up, and Aunt Liu was a little anxious. Seeing this, Li Jiyao asked Sanqi to arrange a carriage in the princess's mansion to send them back. When sending Hua Xiyan away, Li Jiyao also said regretfully: "Yan Shangshu, I really want to keep you here to spend the night with the county lord." However, when I read the virtue of my imperial brother, if I keep you, I will be grounded in the palace by the imperial brother again, and I don't know the year of the monkey, the gains outweigh the losses, so I have to forget it. After the grounding order is over, the lord of this county will come to the palace to find you. β
Hua Xiyan looked down at her holding her hand, and suddenly there was a trance in her eyes, only to feel that her hand, seven years ago, was still a little small, a bit like when her son pulled her, and now, the little girl in her early ten years has become a yellow flower girl to be married.
Time passes, time, say fast is not fast, say slow is not slow.
Aunt Liu helped her into the carriage. In the Princess's Mansion, the lantern festival continues, and according to this lively atmosphere, it will probably last until late at night or until tomorrow morning.
Li Jiyao watched their carriage disappear into the alleyway. When Sanqi followed her back to the house, he suddenly heard her oops, and said in fright: "County Lord, what's wrong?" β
"No, I just suddenly thought that a long, long time ago, my imperial sister-in-law also asked me to bring an umbrella, and I couldn't tell that it was going to rain that day, but it really rained the next day." Li Jiyao, who said this, knocked on his head and suddenly smiled, "This Yan Shangshu, the more I look at it, the more I look like my imperial sister-in-law, Sanqi, don't you think?" β
Sanqi winked at her master: What does she know as a maid? If she had to say it, she only relied on her intuition and felt that Hua Xiyan was far smarter than her master, and it was much more terrifying.
Hua Xiyan sat in the carriage and leaned her fingers to the window, listened to the babbling of the wheels of the carriage, as if she had mentioned it casually, and asked Aunt Liu: "Now the palace maid who has done something wrong and is being punished is still locked up in the Huanyi Bureau?" β
"Yes, girl." Aunt Liu looked at her in surprise, "Why did the girl ask about the Huanyi Bureau?" β
"No, it's just that my maid didn't live in the court before? She said that when she heard that some palace maids were sent to the Huanyi Bureau, she was very worried, for fear that she would be sick and unable to work, and if she was accidentally in the palace, she was also punished by the Queen Mother to the Huanyi Bureau. I said how is this possible? Isn't the Queen Mother a kind-hearted master? I heard that the Queen Mother is a fasting and a believer in Buddhism, and she is the most reluctant to kill. β
After listening to her words, Aunt Liu couldn't understand much because she didn't understand it, so she could only explain to her as she wanted: "Now the internal affairs of the palace are basically in charge of the internal affairs office, and when the queen dies, the queen mother takes over." The Huanyi Bureau is in the hands of the Queen Mother. However, since the girl's maid has arrived at the Yongning Palace, if there is anything, as long as the girl and the saint explain it clearly, and the saint will come forward, the queen mother will not sweep the saint's face and force people away. β
"Now the Yongning Hall is under the Holy Lord's control?"
"Yes, since the death of the queen mother, the saint wants to raise the prince himself, so he will take over the palace and the Yongning Hall where he works." Of course, Aunt Liu couldn't comment on Li Zimo's arrangement, but Li Zimo's move did make the Queen Mother very annoyed.
This proves that after the death of the queen, Li Zimo did not trust the Empress Dowager Hu very much.
Hearing these words, Hua Xiyan's eyes looking outside the carriage were as unfathomable as the night.
Aunt Liu sat across from her, and felt that she was becoming more and more quiet and mysterious tonight, and the momentum she exuded seemed to be stronger and more aggressive than before, but all the edges were shrouded in her silence.
"Aunt Liu."
"Hey."
"Around the corner in front of me, I saw a shop and wanted to go down and buy something."
"Is the girl missing something? If the girl wanted something, the slave maid and Mr. Li said that Mr. Li had explained to the slave and maid that the girl lacked something. β
Hua Xiyan smiled at her words: "Auntie, occasionally, Xiyan wants to buy something she likes, and she doesn't like to reach out to others to take it for nothing." β
Aunt Liu was helpless when she heard her say this, and accompanied her out of the carriage.
Hua Xiyan walked into the jewelry store that was not closed that night and picked it for a while. Aunt Liu was outside to help her watch the wind. The shopkeeper yawned, waited for a while, and asked, "What does the girl want?" My shop is small, if there is no girl who likes it, the girl can leave a word or message, and the store will notify the girl another day. β
These words are exactly what Hua Xiyan wants. Take out a gold ingot from the cuff and put it in the shopkeeper's hand: "Trouble the shopkeeper, go somewhere to help me sample jewelry." The jewelry I want, only that place has it. When the deed is done, the reward is doubled. β
The golden ingots made the shopkeeper blind, and nodded: "Don't worry, the girl will help the girl get it back tomorrow." β
After Hua Xiyan finished this, she turned around and walked out of the shop, met with Aunt Liu, got into the carriage, and returned to the palace.
When I returned to the palace, I realized that after the saint was separated from her in the princess's mansion that night, he never returned.
Snack goods and little princes, a mother went to participate in the lantern festival, and a father, I heard that he also disguised himself out of the palace. Although the snack goods are not used to seeing the little prince wanting to rob his mother, although the little prince knows that the snack goods are vigilant everywhere, this does not prevent these two children who are about the same age and look like brothers, and they almost get along together every day and night. It is a confirmation of their fathers and mothers' original intentions that they unconsciously did.
As usual, at night, the little prince brought snacks again and went to the snack shop to bribe the snacks.
Today, the prince is mentioning the tender lychee fruit. The snack seller ate with a fragrant mouth, water stains on the corners of his mouth, and said to the prince: "I know that you want to please my mother, but are you stupid, why don't you give my mother something to eat, always give it to me, I don't know if I hate you?" β
Li Dongyu threw his handkerchief to him to wipe his mouth, and the corners of his beautiful little lips seemed to smile: "I like your mother, but I also like you, of course I want to give you something to eat." β
"You like me?" The snack eater ate and propped his cheeks into buns, and wiped the bridge of his little nose in disbelief, "What is it for?" β
Of course, Li Dongyu can't say it directly, because he thinks you are like my brother. Chong Snack mysteriously hooked the corners of his lips and coughed his throat: "Last time, I said I wanted to ask you to ride a little white horse, but you didn't go." β
"You said your little white horse?" The snack merchant cocked his nose and looked at the egret on the other side who was chasing his pig Nini for some reason and pecked his head, thinking that he had been pecked on the head by this egret, and just said, "Your pets are all like you, princess sick." What's so rare? Who has never ridden a horse, has the ability, like me and my mother, have ridden a buffalo in the countryside, have you ever ridden a buffalo? β
The prince's eyes flashed with light, and when he saw that this kid was on the set, he said slowly: "I haven't ridden a buffalo before." However, there is one thing I know you have never ridden before. β
"Is there anything I haven't ridden before?" The snack goods were really not convinced.
"You come with me."
The snack slammed off the chair and followed the little prince out of the house.
Li Dongyu glanced at Yifeng, who was following. Yifeng nodded. A palace sedan chair then stopped in front of the house. Li Dongyu got into the sedan chair, looked left and right, and for a moment, he was a little hesitant whether he was going to be pitted by this prince again, and where to sell the pit.
"Come in, Mumu, I promised your mother that I wouldn't hurt you." Li Dongyu beckoned to him.
The snack seller thought, would he be afraid of him? If you want to protect your mother, how can you be afraid of this kid? Don't say that he is the crown prince, his father is not afraid of the emperor.
swaggered and followed him into the sedan chair, cocked his little nostrils and said: "That day, my mother asked me to pretend to be you to take my mother out of the palace, and no one ever doubted me." If you want to harm me, I will pretend to be you and harm you back. β
Li Dongyu grabbed one of his little arms, pulled him down beside him, and smiled lightly with the dimples on the corner of his lips: "It doesn't matter if you want to pretend to be me." But I can't hurt me because you pretend to be me and hurt me. β
Hua Murong turned his head, looked at him with a kind smile, and suddenly felt that in addition to the fact that he had deceived him like his father, this kid laughed a bit like his mother, very gentle and tolerant.
I remember that when this kid's uncle smiled at him, he also felt very much like his mother.
The snack seller was entangled in his heart, what did this kid do like a devil on the one hand and an angel on the other, what should he do.
The sedan chair was set up.
I don't know how long this sedan chair has been walking, and the snack seller will be sleepy after eating, no, his eyelids fight, his head tilted, and he hit the other party's shoulder. Li Dongyu lowered the corners of his eyes, looked at this little face that was almost the same as himself, and gently raised the tips of his fingers to wipe the leftovers from the corners of the other party's mouth.
This kid makes him feel distressed.
Maybe the father felt distressed when he looked at the child, and deliberately asked the imperial dining room to prepare special delicious things for the child to eat, which was the only exception for the father who advocated that he should be diligent and thrifty in the palace first.
No one knew what the child had to do with him, and neither did his father, and his father's confusion and hesitation could be experienced from the conversation between his father and her that night. So he thought, in this world, there is a person who may be able to understand the relationship between the two of them, and tonight, he will take this child to ask that person.
Speaking of the person he is going to seek advice, it is difficult to say whether he is called a human being. I only know that the age of "this person" is thousands and hundreds of years old. However, the number of years that a spirit pet counts is a little different from that of a human being.
Yifeng guards the palanquins of the two little masters until the palanquin enters a place similar to a dungeon. But this dungeon is definitely beyond people's imagination. Here, there are not only steps and streets made of jade, but also a nine-hole long bridge across the water, like a rainbow flying through the ground, and the palace built in the underground palace is as brilliant as the palace on the ground.
Hua Murong was awakened by the sound of flowing water, and immediately sat up straight and asked, "Where is this?" β
"The residence of the Qilin, the temple that the father and the emperor built for the Qilin."
"Kirin?"
Seeing the confused appearance of the snack goods, Li Dongyu slowly explained: "You forgot? Mrs. Zhang just told us about it in class. The royal families of all countries in the world call themselves the sons of dragons. However, among the four spirits, only the dragon cannot be subdued by humans and become a spirit pet. Regarding dragons, everyone only hears rumors, and has never been able to confirm whether dragons exist in the world. At the beginning of the creation of Heavenly Chaos, and with the unicorn and phoenix as the beginning, the unicorn was replaced by the illusory dragon and became the most noble spiritual pet in the world. Therefore, the Tanglin royal family, which can accept the unicorn as a spiritual pet, has always been known as the Dragon Venerable by the world, and it is a bloodline of the gods who have reached the pinnacle. β
After listening to the other party's words, the snack man touched his ears: "You took me to see your father's spiritual pet?" You want to show off to me how good your family is, much better than my Nini, isn't it? β
Of course not! Li Dongyu almost spit out the secret.
Seeing that he couldn't answer, the snack seller sighed: "Don't worry, I know that my Nini will only eat." And my mother said, excellent is useful? If you are too good, you will only be jealous, and it's good to cheat and drink all the way like me and Nini. β
The little prince Li Dongyu raised his forehead: Zhilu Dao Every time he talks to this kid, he is easy to be angry with the other party and vomit blood. He actually admired Hua Xiyan for a long time, and he could endure such a son until now.
"Have you ever thought about what to do in the future?"
"Be a beggar with Nini. You can eat it anywhere. β
Holding the sedan chair with his little hand, Li Dongyu took a deep breath to avoid vomiting blood, and said earnestly: "When you grow up, haven't you ever thought about honoring your mother?" How can you honor your mother as a beggar? β
"I've figured this out." The snack merchant raised his little eyebrows proudly, "With my and Nini's skills, it's not difficult to find something to eat, and my mother will definitely not go hungry with me." Because Nini and I are hungry, we won't let my mother go hungry. β
Should we say that this child is simple and kind-hearted? Li Dongyu couldn't help but touch the child's brain.
"Master, it's here." Yifeng lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.
The two children walked down together.
Hua Murong looked around, and was shocked by the magnificent scenery of this place, thinking about how this kid's home was so spacious everywhere, and it became more and more generous, so how could he be embarrassed by this poor boy.
When the master wants to see the divine beast, other people can't be present, because the divine beast doesn't like it. Yifeng and a few secret guards carrying a sedan chair immediately retreated.
Li Dongyu saw that there seemed to be a light in the temple, the corners of his lips hooked, and he walked over.
Hua Murong was still standing in place, hesitating, this place made him hairy for some reason. Before I knew it, chestnuts were already on my skin. When he realized the reason, he looked back at the little brain melon, and when the two big eyes appeared in front of him, each of which was the size of another head, the snack seller exclaimed as never before: "Wow! β
Ass fell on the jade.
Li Dongyu hurriedly turned around, and when he saw that it was a divine beast emerging from the pool, he smiled.
"Kirin!"
"His Royal Highness the Prince."
The divine beast unicorn, which exposed half of its body from the pool and was lying leisurely on the edge of the pool, nodded its head to the little prince, and in a blink of an eye, he looked back at the little face sitting in front of him and looking the same as the little prince.
Hua Murong trembled all over his body, and he was thrown by the tail of the unicorn just now, and the water splashed on him, and he only felt a chill all over his body.
The monster in front of me can't be said to look terrible, compared to some beautiful snakes and the like that my mother told her, it is already much better, although it looks a little strange, such as the head like the head of a horse, the eyes are big like a lion's eye, the back muscles are strong and powerful called the tiger's back, like the agile body of a musk deer, but the skin is covered with dragon scales like armor, which is invulnerable. As for the long tail, which resembles a dragon's tail, it is no wonder that it can replace the dragon.
What Hua Murong was afraid of was the eyes of this divine beast, looking down on him, making him feel like a little ant. There has never been a man or beast who can give him such a feeling. It's not that he is a little Mumu boasting, when he was very young, he was not afraid of facing the vicious dogs in the village who were much taller than him.
What is called a snack that is not afraid of the sky outside the sky, and is not afraid of the earth, for the first time in my life, I felt afraid.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, this kid is very interesting." The secret words that the unicorn came into the ears of the two children, the voice was deep, after the vicissitudes of life, like the voice of a human elder. After all, it has lived too long, and its intelligence has long surpassed that of the animal kingdom, or rather the average human.
Li Dongyu walked over to the snack goods and pulled Mu Mu up. After Hua Murong grabbed his hand, a warmth poured in, and he felt better and less shaky. As soon as the snack spirit came back, he immediately asked, "You said it was your father's spiritual pet?" β
"Yes."
"How's that going to work? Isn't it useless that it can't follow your father when it grows so big? "Where is like his little pig Nini, how good, can sleep in the night and be a pillow.
Dare to say that the unicorn is a waste? Who dares in this world? Probably just this kid. Li Dongyu was embarrassed on the one hand, and he was really nervous in his heart, seeing that the divine beast unicorn was close at hand, he listened to this child's rebellious words.
The corners of his eyes swept over with sorrow for a while, but he found that the corners of the unicorn's mouth were hooked, completing an arc of laughter, and no, the old man's cheerful and mellow laughter came out of the throat of the divine beast.
The divine beast smiled, it was called earth-shattering.
Hua Murong finally understood what this unicorn was doing to maintain that kind of leisurely posture like dozing, only to see this unicorn laughing, the underground palace was vibrating, the water in the pool, booming, like a cheerful fountain shot into the sky, and then like a goddess scattered flowers fell, drenching him and the little prince into a soup chicken.
The two children looked down at their wet clothes and shoes, and they were quite helpless.
The little prince said to the snack seller, "It's the first time I've seen a unicorn smile. β
In other words, you cow, the number one divine beast in the world can be amused by you.
The snack seller wrinkled his little nose: "You should have told it the joke, I will try to avoid it." Where did I know that he would be better than Ninibi the piglet. He is a divine beast, but he is actually compared to my little pig, isn't he self-surrendering? β
As soon as these words were finished, the divine beast shook the world with a series of loud laughter.
The two children ran up the steps in a panic, and saw that because of the loud laughter, the water in the pool seemed to set off a huge wave, and the mountains and seas seemed to be rushing to them, ready to drown them at any time.
While running, the little prince had to teach the snack food: "Don't talk anymore." β
If you say anything casually, you can poke the laughter of the divine beast, and the cow is too much.
The snack seller ran without hesitation: "Then you still need to say, I won't talk to it again unless I die." β
As a result, the Kirin immediately restrained his laughter, and he didn't want to miss the opportunity to talk to Xiao Mumu forever.
The unicorn jumped out of the pool, stepped on the splash, and easily landed in front of the two children who were running for their lives, and said, "No one can hurt you." Come, come into the temple and I will speak with you. After speaking, a white circle of light covered its huge body, and after a while, the body of the god monster disappeared, and out of the circle of light was an old man, dressed in a snow-white fairy robe and with a white beard, no different from the old Taoist priest of the fairy wind bones.
Hua Murong was amazed, never knowing that animals could become humans, and shouted: "Can my Nini also change?" β
"Nini?" The unicorn that has become an old man raises his white eyebrows.
"My little pig." As he spoke, Hua Murong looked around, only to remember that Nini the little pig did not follow because she was chased by the egret.
"If you raised it, I think, it's very likely to change. Because you have the blood of the Protoss in you. Kirin said.
Xiao Mumu has the same blood as himself in his body. Li Dongyu's eyes lit up.
Kirin took the two children into the hall where he lived. The snack seller looked in the hall, found nothing to eat, and said disappointedly: "Don't you eat or drink?" My Nicole will eat it. β
"Whatever you want to eat, I'll conjure it up for you." The unicorn put his arms around the shoulders of the snack sellers with love.
In Li Dongyu's eyes, such a performance of Qilin is absolutely rare. Not only does the Kirin rarely transform, but it is simply impossible to be so good to a child who meets for the first time. Mythical beasts all have their own arrogant tempers. What does this mean? The little prince's head kept spinning.
changed a plate of grapes to satisfy the snacks, and at the same time noticed the abnormal expression of the little prince, Qilin walked up to the little prince and said in a secret language: "Why did His Royal Highness the prince bring him here, this palace seems to understand a little." β
"Do you know the way?"
"He is in the same veins as you, Your Highness the Prince."
Li Dongyu was so excited that his two little eyes were shining: So, is there hope for him and his father?
"Although I don't know who raised him, but this palace knows that with your father Li Zimo, he will never be able to raise such a child, and he can only raise a child like you, His Royal Highness the Prince." When Qilin said this, he couldn't help but laugh heartily, "Fortunately, it wasn't raised by your father, if the two children are like you, the crown prince, this palace can't laugh at Li Zimo." β
Hearing the latter sentence, Li Dongyu's little eyebrows crossed a sorrow in surprise: "Laugh at my father? β
"This kid can make your father angry to death. Seeing that this kid can make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince angry, you can imagine it. Qilin talked about being able to be angry with his master, as if he was thousands of years younger and radiant all of a sudden, "This palace watched Li Zimo grow up, you Tanglin royal family, all of them are like Li Zimo and His Royal Highness the Prince, it's too stereotyped, it's not fun at all." This kid is good, Hongu likes it! β
Li Dongyu's emotions were immediately poured cold water after being excited for less than a moment, if his father knew about it, what should he do. Don't blame him, he never knew that the number one divine beast in the world was fun.
Lovingly looking at the snack goods eating over there, Qilin put his two hands on the little shoulders of the little prince who did not match his age, and whispered, "Your Highness is very happy, right?" β
"Hmm."
"Your Highness, don't worry. No matter what happens, the Qilin will protect the Emperor of Tanglin, and will also protect His Highness and this child. β
Li Dongyu snorted: "Qilin, can I ask you to protect someone again?" β
"Does Your Highness mean Her Highness's Queen Mother?"
Little eyes sparkled at him.
Kirin sighed: "This palace can't. In fact, as early as seven years ago, your father came to ask me about this. Unfortunately, Hongu can't. His Royal Highness is young, so he may not understand, and there are some things that are called the Mandate of Heaven that cannot be violated. β
The year she died, how many people knew that she was going to die after all. Perhaps, only those who have a heart to harm her, because they have a plan to murder her, so it is natural that she is going to die. However, no one knows the Dao, in fact, she has long known that the Dao of her life is short, and it is the destiny of heaven that cannot be violated.
This ability to foresee, similar to the ability to precognition, was something she was born with. For example, when she was very young, when it was about to rain, she cried and didn't let the nurse carry her out of the courtyard for a walk, because at that time she couldn't speak, and she could only use crying to remind others. The family only thought that she was gifted and smart, who would have thought that her ability to predict weather changes could predict her own death. Of course, at that time, she had always been half believing and half skeptical about her own ability, because until the day she died, even she herself could not know whether the Tao was correct or not.
However, she has been doing the work of preparing for a rainy day.
Before dawn, the injured green green brought her a dish of washing water.
Hua Xiyan washed her face, and Lu Cui handed out a hairpin from under her hand: "The slave maid took a look, it happened to be the one that the eldest lady told the slave maid last night." β
took the hairpin, turned over the back, and carefully touched the hairpin joint, and could feel a familiar nick, which was left by her back then.
Lu Cui continued: "The one who handed over the hairpin to the slave maid was a palace maid, and she also asked me, how are you doing, but I didn't dare to answer her. β
"What does it look like?"
"The slave remembers best that there was a mole on her left eye."
These words shocked Hua Xiyan's heart: Yurong!
When she was leaving, among the few people she was most concerned about in the world, there was one person who was the maid Yurong who had accompanied her to the palace since she was a child.
"She's not a palace maid." Hua Xiyan said softly, "She should be the wife of a certain courtier, she is a lady, and she should have entered the palace in disguise." She knew the place all too well. β
Lu Cui was surprised: "The eldest lady knows her?" β
How could the eldest lady of the Hua family know the wife of the minister of the Tanglin Kingdom?
Hua Xiyan couldn't explain it clearly to Lu Cui, so she had to tell Lu Cui: "Someone should come later, if you see a bearded man with a hairpin exactly like this hairpin, you can ask him to come and see me." β
"Aren't you afraid to meet here?" Lu Cui asked, this is the emperor's bedroom, there are emperor's eyeliner everywhere, she is afraid of doing anything under the emperor's nose.
"Don't be afraid." Hua Xiyan said, "The saint didn't return last night, Li Shunde didn't come back, and no one paid attention." β
The young lady seems to have everything in mind. Emerald thought.
Hua Xiyan is making a good calculation, if he comes back, there are many people, she can only go outside to meet people, if not, in fact, it is safest to meet people in his place, because Aunt Liu said that the queen mother's hand can't reach here.
It didn't take long for Green Green to bring someone over as she wanted. As she had described, the man was disguised as a eunuch, but with a distinctive goatee, and was over thirty years old, but not old. This person entered the house, Lu Cui closed the door, he looked at Hua Xiyan for a while, a pair of small eyes were capable and capable, sharp like a knife, and soon, he knelt down in his robe with Hua Xiyan: "Chen Du has the ambition to knock on Niangniang." β
"Get up." Hua Xiyan said.
This person is none other than the criminal minister who impeached her in front of the emperor and asked the emperor to depose her. Later, by the gift of the Queen Mother, this person was not imprisoned, but became an official, and now, he should be serving in the household department. However, the Queen Mother must not know that Aunt Sun and the Queen Mother co-starred in the play, just according to her play, at that time, she had already seen this man, which was the key to saving her life.
Du Youzhi got up, hung down in front of her, with a surprise and smile on his face, and said, "Congratulations on the return of Niangniang." β
"How can you think I'm a mother?"
"In addition to the way Niangniang knows my hairpin, and the way Niangniang told me seven years ago to meet me, and more importantly, Niangniang's eyes. Niangniang's eyes are unparalleled in the world, how easy to look, eyes can't deceive people. β
The man did have two brushes. Back then, when she suddenly appeared, she looked at her a few times, and immediately knew that she had a plan for him.
"It's been seven years." Hua Xiyan said, "This palace has been gone for seven years. The Seven Souls and Six Spirits have just come back, and some things are still not very clear, so the palace left you to do eyeliner in the palace, did the Queen Mother guard against you? β
Du Youzhi smiled deeply: "Niangniang, the Queen Mother doesn't know the drama that Lu Dao played by Niangniang seven years ago, how can she prevent herself?" What's more, the contemptible people think very highly of themselves, but only Niangniang is the only person who has looked away at the beginning of his life. β
"You're not looking away." Looking back on the past, Hua Xiyan, no, it is Gong Jinxi, full of emotion. Back then, she couldn't go to that road. She had tried, tried hard, and won the love of everyone around him. However, as Du Youzhi said, if you do too well and do it perfectly, it will just make people more and more jealous. Besides, these people wanted to harm her, not simply out of jealousy for her.
"No, the minister does not have a deep vision and a long-term vision. The courtier's eyes were narrow, and he only saw that the mother was in prison, but he didn't know the details. After seven years, Du Youzhi also has a deeper understanding of this matter, and he is ashamed.
"They probably thought that once the palace died, the phoenix seal would naturally return to the hands of the saint. However, they never thought that the Holy Lord had already handed over the phoenix seal to the main palace, as long as the body of the main palace did not die, and the seven souls and six spirits returned, the phoenix seal would not fall into the hands of the saint. What they want is not the main palace, but just the phoenix seal, half of the power of the Tanglin Kingdom. Their goal is not the main palace, but the imperial throne of the Tanglin Kingdom. β
"That's all because of Niangniang, so that the Holy Lord can hand over the phoenix seal to Niangniang."
But this is true. Although it is written in the marriage contract of the Protoss that the other party who marries can share half of the power of the emperor, how many emperors have really done it. It's basically impossible. For example, the first emperor, after being abolished several times, it is even more impossible to hand over the phoenix seal to any woman because of this, in that case, wouldn't the country be in chaos early. Only Li Zimo, who married her from the beginning and handed over the phoenix seal to her. This is what she is most hated by Empress Dowager Hu and others.
Why did Li Zimo give her the phoenix seal, she thought about it, it may be the same as when Li Zimo first ascended the throne, it coincided with the complicated situation of domestic instability and foreign enemy invasion, and he gave half of the power to her in order to prepare for a rainy day. Of course, this is also because he trusts her and trusts their palace family.
"The saint suspects that Niangniang is not dead, right?" Du Youzhi asked, according to her statement.
"No, he doesn't know what to say. He thought that the phoenix seal was sealed into the underground palace with the body of the main palace. He did this at the beginning, but he also thought that the body of the palace would not be destroyed for thousands of years, and whoever wanted to grab the phoenix seal must first destroy the body of the palace. And the person who destroys the body of the Protoss will be thundered by the sky, and no one will dare. As long as he does not stand for another day, no one can get this phoenix seal in his hands, when he sits on the throne in his lifetime. β
Perhaps only after so many years of precipitation can she understand him better. He is an emperor, a high emperor, and every move he makes is too deep, since it contains love, it also contains calculation.
"Since Niangniang is back, you have to explain all this to the Holy Lord, right?" When Du Youzhi asked this, he looked at her.
Hua Xiyan knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Of course, it is impossible for this palace to have a formal meeting with the Holy Lord before meeting those 'old friends'. β
Niangniang thought so, and the minister's heart was steady. How did Niangniang die in the first place, Niangniang herself, may not remember clearly. β
How could it be known how she died? If she had known the Dao, she would not have died a long time ago. Destiny cannot be violated. Expected, but not prevented. She was destined to walk two times back and forth on the ghost door. If she doesn't send her soul to another time and space and experience reincarnation, she can't turn into death and turn into a catastrophe. If she came back and didn't pass the seven-year reincarnation, she would not be able to return to this body as the memory of the seven souls and six spirits of Gong Jinxi, and perfectly integrate with the soul that had experienced a reincarnation.
Every step of the careful calculation, Taoguang cultivation, forbearance and generosity, is to be able to really come back, come back to see all the previous people. Of course, her approach is not something that her predecessors can learn from, it is extremely risky, and it is no different from dying at all. Therefore, I didn't dare to say it with my family, because I didn't know if I could do it.
His eyes flashed slightly, and he lowered his voice: "For so many years, what have you helped this palace find out?" β
"Niangniang knew that it was wrong, but she couldn't find out. The minister knew that this matter was very difficult. Just to follow the people who are suspicious of Niangniang, I'm afraid that I will only catch the tip of the iceberg. However, because Niangniang ordered the minister at the cost of death, the minister was able to see the symptoms of Niangniang before her death, judging from the symptoms of Niangniang's most stubborn death, it was neither poison nor an accident, it could only be a curse. β
Heavenly curse!
These two words are indeed enough to make people feel bitterly cold.
From ancient times to the present, cursing a person to death is not that no one has used it, but the price is too great. In general, to ban a person's life, one must surrender one's own life as a guarantee. What's more, cursing her to death after entering the divine realm, this price is unimaginable.
However, she can perceive the two words of heavenly curse that no one else can see, this man is really worthy of the object she chose back then.
Du Youzhi only felt a chill on his body, bowed his head, and said: "Niangniang is at ease, the minister's life has long been Niangniang's." β
"This palace naturally trusts you, otherwise it wouldn't have put seven years of bets on you first." sighed softly, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and he drew out a thin smear, "But just like you, when this palace comes back, these people are not far from death." β
"According to the laws of the Heavenly Mantra, it is. Once the spell fails, the fortune of heaven is reincarnated, these people, God can't take away the lives of the mother, these people's lives, God must accept them. β
"Are you sure it's a curse?"
"Why don't you try it?"
The two men looked at each other with a glimmer.
Looking at the opposite side of the window, the Qionglou Yuyu in the palace rose and fell, hazy in the fog, not far away, that is, the Yongshou Palace: "It seems that the palace can take a nearby person to try it first." β
Yongshou Palace.
Empress Dowager Hu coughed so much that she couldn't sleep one night. Aunt Sun patted her on the back before dawn.
"Has the Holy Lord returned?" Empress Dowager Hu asked.
Last night, her carriage walked in front of the emperor, and when she arrived at the palace, she realized that Li Zimo did not come back with her, which made her uneasy all night, and she felt that the emperor was already suspicious. As early as seven years ago, it was known that the Emperor of the Dao Dao would be suspicious, but in the past seven years, she has been doing a good job, so that the emperor has no way to grasp the handle. How can you lose your efforts because of a sudden accident.
Aunt Sun asked the other palace maids to step down, walked to Empress Dowager Hu's side, and shook her head.
"Didn't come back? For what? No one knows where he went? β
"Our people are only at the city gates, and if the saints do not enter or leave the city gates, they will not be able to track them down." When Aunt Sun said this, she comforted her and said, "Queen Mother, go down and sleep for a while." The slave maid saw that the saint was just in a bad mood and wanted to take a break outside. The saint must come back to preside over the court, and the saint will come back later. β
"The mourning family has to drink medicine, otherwise they won't be able to sleep." Empress Dowager Hu said.
Aunt Sun immediately went to pick up the Chinese medicine that had been boiled that morning and had been placed on the table.
Empress Dowager Hu took the medicine bowl and looked at the thick brown Chinese medicine juice as if she was in a trance.
"The Queen Mother?"
"The mourning family is uneasy, why did he go to that place last night? He'd never been there before. When he opened the coffin, the mourning family thought that the people inside would suddenly jump out and face the mourning family-" Empress Dowager Hu's hand holding the medicine bowl trembled like autumn wind and fallen leaves, and her chest rose and fell.
Aunt Sun was about to pat her on the back when she suddenly heard a wind blowing from the window, hey, didn't you close the window? So I went over and closed the window. When she closed the window with both hands, she suddenly heard a snap behind her, and she turned around immediately.
I saw that there were pieces of medicine bowls on the ground, and Empress Dowager Hu covered her chest with one hand, pointed to the front with one hand, her lips were purple, and she trembled: "You, you, you-"
Aunt Sun followed the gaze of the Empress Dowager Hu and saw the woman who appeared in the house at some point, and saw that the woman was wearing a brocade dress, which was the most noble national costume in Tanglin, and she was wearing the nine phoenix beads on her head. This hairpin, in this country, only the queen can wear it. So it didn't take long for Aunt Sun to shiver with Empress Dowager Hu on both knees.
Are they dreaming?
Wasn't the person they had seen in the coffin last night?
Someone who should have died seven years ago!
The woman's quiet and noble apricot eyes looked at Aunt Sun. Aunt Sun in an instant, only thought of the scene when she saw this little girl for the first time, Li Zimo, who was still the crown prince back then, asked her to give this little girl a respectful salute, she had served the queen mother for a long time, naturally she was not very willing, the little girl only used one look, let her kneel down on her two knees convincingly.
"Queen Motherβ" Aunt Sun slammed her head on the ground, her body swinging like a sick person.
When Empress Dowager Hu heard the word queen, she gasped more and more, her lips were cyanotic, and she couldn't breathe: "Palace, palace queen-"
"It's the concubine, the queen mother, the concubine has come to say goodbye to the queen mother." The woman made a blessing in front of the Empress Dowager Hu, raised her head, and looked like she was very surprised by the Empress Dowager, "Empress Dowager, what's wrong with your body?" The concubine hasn't seen the Queen Mother for seven years, how can the Queen Mother be so ill? The concubine and her brother have studied medical skills and know a little bit, so it is better for the concubine to help the queen mother take the pulse. β
Seeing her approaching, Empress Dowager Hu stepped back to the bed and waved her hand: "No, no, the mourning family doesn't need-"
Aunt Sun's heart contracted violently, and she felt that her spirit was blurred by the shock of her heart, and when she looked up, she saw that Empress Dowager Hu's hair was messy and her eyes were scattered, she was more like a crazy woman than her. was suddenly grabbed by the woman by an arm, and Empress Dowager Hu screamed, as if she had been bitten to the heart by something.
With the Queen Mother's robe, one sleeve was pulled up, and a bright red blood-like mark appeared on the Empress Dowager Hu's arm. When Empress Dowager Hu saw the mark on her arm, her trembling body coughed, and her mouth of blood spurted out.
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