Xiu Yuzhen stood in the hall and circled with the guards, if she wanted to see Qi win, she would have to go in even if she broke in.

"Can I go to the back mountain and have a look?"

"The empress forgives the sin, the back mountain is a forbidden place, and the high priest explicitly forbids that others cannot enter without his permission."

"Am I not okay with me?"

Xiu Yuzhen never thought that Qi Ying, who is now in power, would bite himself back, and elected him to become the high priest, and put such a big score in front of him.

"This ......"

The armor-clad guard had a look of embarrassment on her face, but her body was honest with her sword in her way. Xiu Yuzhen understood what he meant, and his face was full of anger and he was about to get angry, when he heard a voice behind him.

"Empress Wanfu Jin'an, I didn't know that you were here, and it was rude."

The comer carried the wind and dust all the way, and the wind under his feet stirred the leaves of the sycamore trees under his feet. He greeted the guards as he sent them down.

"Stand down."

The armor guard didn't say much, and retreated outside the hall with his sword.

The statue of Nuwa standing in the center of the temple of the gods is looking down at the two people opposite each other in front of the hall, and the two of them have stood for a long time without speaking, as if they are secretly doing something to compare, there is no scene of gunsmoke.

The palace was empty, except for a few statues of gods standing there, looking solemn and ethereal.

Qi Ying tidied up his clothes, and it was not a problem to look at Gan standing. Xiu Yuzhen suddenly came to find that something big must have happened, so she simply invited her to the pavilion in the back mountain.

"Empress, what is the matter with your busy schedule coming to the Temple of the Gods?"

The man with purple eyes made a cup of hot tea and served it, and when it was cold, he drank tea to warm his body.

"It's nothing, just come and see how the high priest is doing. In addition, I have heard that the high priest cares about and sympathizes with the subordinates, and has left a lot of people behind, so do you need me to allocate more subordinates for you to serve? ”

"The empress bothered. You have worked day and night, and now you are still thinking about your ministers. Once a minister was ordered by you to inherit the throne of the high priest, he should be grateful to you, how dare he ask too much of you. ”

"Recently, the palace has not been peaceful, there are always some people who will sneak out in the middle of the night, the high priest has not seen anyone who can do it, right? Like a teenager? ”

"It's... I really haven't seen it. However, if the empress needs anything, I will definitely bow down and die. ”

Qi Ying's set is close, avoiding the important and trivial, and does not mention the question about Luo Yunying at all. He didn't intend to tell her about it, but tried to hide it from her as best he could.

Although Xiu Yuzhen knocked on the side, he still realized that Xiu Yuzhen had suspected Luo Yunying's disappearance.

"The high priest was really joking. Protecting the Imperial Capital Dynasty is a shared responsibility of you and me, and in this camp, you and I both have the same purpose. ”

The tea has been boiled, and the cup is bubbling with the fragrant fragrance of tea leaves, Xiu Yuzhen took a sip and praised it endlessly. After pinching for about a long time, his face became dark, and his mouth was really hard enough, so he spoke.

"Qi Ying, I have a life-saving grace for you. Whoever you are or who you are, you owe me. I hope you don't hide anything from me. ”

"What did the empress say, you have a life-saving grace for Qi Ying, I am grateful to Dade, how dare you hide it."

The porcelain bowl slammed against the stone table with a crisp sound. Qi Ying held the teacup in one hand and pursed his thin lips, and his purple evil eyes tested the man.

"Qi Ying, I won't go around the bend with you. Half a month ago, I asked someone to bring my little daughter back outside the palace, maybe I was too busy, neglected her, made her feel unsafe, and before our mother and daughter had time to warm up, she set fire to Fengyang Pavilion and secretly escaped.

Someone in the palace reported to me that I had seen a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl dressed as a handmaid slip out of your mansion in the early hours of this morning. Did you take her in? ”

"The empress laughed, I didn't know that there was a cardamom little maid in my mansion. What's more, the deity didn't know that the empress had a little daughter, you really loved your son, and you hid it deep enough. ”

Qi Ying maintained his attitude towards Luo Yunying and said that he had never seen it from beginning to end, and he insisted that he had no choice. Now he is also important to himself, and he has use value, and he will only lose if he fights hard.

"It's a big deal, and it's my fault that I haven't had time to tell you about her. But she was my daughter, and I couldn't bear to let her be wronged outside, so I asked the high priest to understand and take me to her. ”

"Empress, you are really joking, the deity has never seen the little emperor. However, if necessary, I can also send guards to help you find it. ”

Due to her anxious mood, Xiu Yuzhen's head inevitably hurt again. She frowned and stroked her forehead, feeling as if she had been burned by fire.

"Not necessarily. The high priest also knew about the affairs of the court. The current situation is special, and Yunjin and Yunjing are already like this. I can't let Yun Ying fall into the hands of others, I don't want to make such a big deal about this matter, and I ask the high priest to keep it secret. ”

"That's what the Empress said."

The cup of tea is cold, Qi Ying's mouth is very tight, he doesn't eat soft and hard, and he can't ask when he knocks on the side, Xiu Yuzhen can't ask anything, and there is no need to talk anymore.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful scenery in the back mountain, no wonder the high priest lingered here all day long and refused to go out."

Qi Ying turned his back on his hands, stood on the handrail railing, and looked at the beautiful scenery in the distance: blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, birds and fish leisurely. From time to time, the breeze blows through the surface of the lake, and under the light of the sun, the lake surface is sparkling, as if it has been covered with a layer of jewelry, so dazzling.

"Even if there are a thousand styles, who can you talk to?"

"I didn't expect that the high priest who has always been chic also has sorrows in the world, which is rare in the world."

Xiu Yuzhen deliberately sarcastic, causing Qi Ying to laugh at himself.

Six years ago, it was also when the two first met. At that time, the imperial capital had just recovered from the chaos, and the border was stable.

Luo Qinghe's unauthorized departure caused the position of high priest to be vacant for seven years. When Xiu Yu Zhen was at a loss for this, the guards of the Temple of the Gods suddenly came to say that a man covered in blood had been found in the back mountain.

The back mountain is a forbidden place, and the terrain is complex, and the forest is full of snakes, rats, tigers and wolves, which is a dangerous place. How could anyone be there?

Under the leadership of the guards, Xiu Yuzhen led the group to the entrance of the back mountain, and saw the red blood all over the ground flowing down the terrain into the creek, dyeing the creek pink, and finally flowing into the lake along the stream.

It's not that she hasn't seen people die, and she can achieve the position of empress, and her hands are also stained with the blood of countless people. To her surprise, there were traces of a fight everywhere, but she saw only one person lying there.

The clothes of the people on the ground were tattered, the blood loss was serious, the skin was open, and there was so much blood on their bodies, not like the amount of blood of a person, the vitality was so tenacious, and there was still a breath between the noses.

"Empress Qi, people are still alive."

An armored guard behind him said.

Xiu Yuzhen looked at the man on the ground lying on his stomach, and the blood on the ground flowed from the injured part of the ground. The bloodstained clothes were mixed with mud and made it impossible to see the original color, and the clothes were also tattered, revealing the skin oozing blood inside. The man who fainted to death on the ground had his hair scattered and covered his face, making it impossible to see his face.

The most surprising thing is that not far from him there is an intact guqin, which is not stained with a trace of blood.

The deserted forbidden land in the back mountain, the man covered in blood, and the clean guqin make people feel strange.

She tried to go up and check, but was held back by the guards.

"It doesn't matter."

Xiu Yuzhen waved her hand, and the armored guard retreated to the back, staring at the man on the ground with two eyes, I am afraid that it was a ploy to hurt the empress again.

Xiu Yuzhen squatted down, reached out and brushed away the man's messy bloodstained hair, and probed between his noses, as well as breath.

"Take him back and revive him."

"Empress, we don't know where he came from..."

"It's saved, just ask?"

The next day, Xiu Yuzhen heard from someone in the morning that the man who had been rescued from the back mountain had woken up. But... It's just a little weird, and as soon as I wake up, I shout to find that guqin, as if it's some kind of damn thing.

Weird? How weird can it be?

At that time, Xiu Yuzhen was only in her twenties, although she had not seen the prosperity of the world, but she had also seen a lot of the world. But when she saw the man who had been saved, she was terrified.

Most of the pupils of ordinary people are brown, brown, and black, but the eyes of the person in front of you are purple. Where are the eyes of man, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a ghost.

Could it be that the birds and beasts in the back mountains have turned into human forms? But it's right to think about it this way, only stone ghosts and ghosts can have such eyes when they turn into humans, where would normal people be like this.

But then she still reacted, how could there be monsters in this world, they must have strayed into this place. But where he came from is a mystery.

"My piano is with you?"

The man with different eyes was not afraid when he saw so many people, but asked bluntly. However, this reckless behavior was also met with a ruthless kick from the guards.

"Presumptuous, don't kneel when you see the empress!"

Before the man could figure out the situation, he was kicked to his knees, and the wound on his body was also split open because of this action, and he gasped in pain.

As a result, the worse end was the guard who was looking for death, his arms and legs were dislocated in the blink of an eye, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up, screaming in pain.

Xiu Yuzhen was amazed by his reflexes and kung fu, and even though he was seriously injured, he was able to knock a healthy and powerful guard to the ground.

Seeing that the man was wary of herself, she also put down the shelf, took the initiative to hand him the freshly boiled decoction, and said.

"Childe did the right thing, it was he who recklessly bumped into you, and he should be punished. This is a decoction for you and is good for your recovery. ”

The man with different pupils did not go to take the bowl of decoction, but looked at everyone vigilantly, including Xiu Yuzhen, who was "fake" and well-intentioned.

She could see that he was worried, wasn't he afraid that he would be poisoned? Sure enough, I'm still scared. Then he drank the decoction in the bowl and said.

"I know that Childe doesn't believe me, this bowl of soup is non-toxic, if I want to harm you, I still need to save you?"

The man with different eyes swallowed his saliva, and the guard in his eyes slowly let go. Seeing this, Xiu Yuzhen ordered people to bring a new bowl of it, and watched him grunt and drink it.

Xiu Yuzhen stood aside and looked at the man with different pupils in front of him, about fifteen or sixteen years old, thin and thin, but a head taller than himself.

The sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the facial features have not faded, and the greenness does not look so tough and three-dimensional, nor is it so heroic, but there is a feeling of being better than a fairy who has escaped from the world.

How could such a young age appear in the back mountains, and he was covered with scars.

Xiu Yuzhen tightened her eyebrows, thoughtful, completely ignoring that the people on the side were staring at her.